Melody said:
Miracles still happen every day. Most people have just gotten too arrogant to see them and instead find some way to try and explain them away with "science".....evolution for example. Those who think the universe just popped into existence one day and man crawled out of the primordial ooze are missing the miracle. I know...I know...you'll say that's not a miracle because science yada yada. You've just made my point.
The heat gnomes prove their existance every day, congregating near heat sources and making things nearby hot with their presence. You see it every time you put something on the stove and it gets hot. I know, you'll say "it's just condution", but you prove my point.
Your statement is rhetoric. There are clear examples of miracles on demand, and for the explicit benifit of the observer throughout the Bible. They are not "flowers bloomed", they are "every firstborn died in one night", "The sea parted", "A pillar of fire decended from the sky and killed only the opposing army".
I have many, many questions, and have gotten many, many answers, to questions that can be validated. You're asking the wrong questions, and asking them for the wrong purpos.
It's the only way I can tell the difference between real communication and false (whether believed or not). I can ask a plant what shirt I should wear today and come up with an answer and say that proves that plants are telepathic. It's not a useful claim without the ability to support it.
Only his apostles and two women saw that.
The son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:17-23).
The Shunammite woman's son (2 Kings 4:32-37).
The young man laid in Elisha's grave (2 Kings 13:21).
The widow's son (Luke 7:12-15).
Jairus' daughter (Luke 8:49-55).
Lazarus (John 11:43,44).
Jesus (Matt. 28:1-15; Mk. 16:1-13; Lk. 24:1-12; Jn. 20:1-18).
Saint who were raised, coming from the tombs that were opened after Christ's crucifixion (Matt. 27:52-53).
Dorcas (Acts 9:37-40).
Eutychus (Acts 20:9-12).
Many others who are not named (Heb. 11:35).
only a few people saw that
Making fish appear? Hundreds? Appearing before Paul? Hundreds? Turning the Nile to blood? at least tens of thousands.
To fulfill prophecy, and to fulfill the law. What would have been the point of him coming down and doing nothing? Miracles can convert people, but that isn't their point, and they can't convert those who are asking to see a miracle. God hasn't stopped, either. I've witness quite a few miracles, in my day, but that's because I have faith, and miracles follow the faithfull.
The Emperors new clothes.
He did a lot for the people who were unbeleivers due to having never heard aobut him. He didn't very much at all for those who, even seeing what he could do, hardened their hearts and refused to believe.
Actually, mostof the world still hadn't heard about him.. but that too is a different topic.
Plagues, pillar of fire, parting the sea, flooding the world, talking bush, magical ark of the covenant, striking dead those who enter the inner shrine without animal blood, walking theroughthe Jewesh camp with moses, bringing down the walls of Jerico, stopping the sun in the sky. Not to mention all the angels.
Then there's the NT. An army of zombie saints marching on Jeruselam, the eclipse and earthquake, the appearance before hundreds of non-believers (not the least of which paul himself), curing lepers, raising several dead people.
Your statement is simply false.
There's tons of proof out there. You have all you need, if you were really interested in conversion. You're not. You're interested in solidifying the beleif you have that God does not exist.
Rhetoric. I can reverse the language and say it about you.
It's funny you should mention the Egyptians, as it essentially proves my point. Even with all the miracles God was doint through Moses, the Pharoah refused to let the Irealites go. It was only until all the first borns died, but then it wasn't because of fear or beleif in the lord.
Actually, the *reason* he refused is "God hardened his heart".
