Jesus healed the paralytic to provide evidence for his authority to forgive sins — faith is evidence-based

In the story of the paralytic lowered through the roof (Mark 2 / Luke 5), Jesus was challenged on his authority to forgive sins. Rather than appealing to blind faith, Jesus performed a miracle — healing the paralytic — as demonstrable proof that he had authority to forgive sins. Mike uses this to argue that Jesus himself grounded faith in evidence.