If God exists, Why aren't there any present day miracles?

Question

If God exists, why are there no present day miracles? I see no proof that God exists. If god wants to convert me, I need a miracle. I want to come up with a faux gasoline, and sell it and make billions. That's the only way god'll get me on his side. Why won't this happen?

I've surmised that god won't bless me, but he will bless those who give to the chruch? he'll give to those who don't ask question, and who don't THINK? Granny Annie, if I "need a brain" from god, then does that put your IQ the 30s? By the way, Lance Armstrong is a testament to what the human body can achieve. He had cancer but his body fought it off since he was in great physical shape. Also, if a person is HIV positive, it MAY just be that that person is immune to it. No one disease can wipe out all people. Take the black death, somewhere in the 1300's(thereabouts, there were several different outbreaks of it.), the doctor of the pope I belive went right into plague ridden people's houses, yet he never got the plague. How? He was immune to it, no act of god, it was evolution. Evolution just means CHANGE.

Tiny miracles? Are you kidding me? Babies being born is NOT a miracle, like 90% of all creatures give birth in some form. If this is a miracle, then maybe you all are mentally ill. People say god is our heavenly father. I don't recall my father telling me not to steal from only certain people, like my siblings. My father didn't tell me to to spread his wealth of knowledge, in a book form, and if people don't belive it, that I should kill someone.

Answer 1

You want God to give you money, and that's the only way you'll know that It exists?
There are present-day miracles, they're just not as obvious as "casting out demons" or turning water into wine. For example, I have seen three miracles myself.
There was a woman in the church I attended as a teenager who developed a rare heart defect. Doctors gave her less than a year to live, even after surgery. They said the only way she could survive was through a heart transplant. The weeks ticked by and no donor was found, yet everyone in my church prayed that either she would be healed or a donor would be found.
One day, she awoke feeling better than she had since the diagnosis of the defect. She made a doctor's appointment, because she was afraid it was a fluke. When she went in, they found NO SIGN of the defect, and no sign that there ever had been one. They had no explanation for what had happened.
It's been nearly ten years since this happened, and she is still alive and well. Her three kids still have their mother.
The very first miracle I saw, which I had forgotten about, took place when I was a child. The wife of the pastor at the church I attended as a child, in South Carolina, had MS. She was unable to walk without a walker, though she was only in her thirties.
One day, she RAN into the church, shouting that she had been healed. Sure enough, the doctors found that there was no sign of her still having MS, or that she had ever had it. She was totally and utterly healed.
The last miracle I saw was considerably more recent. About a year ago, a boy was hit by a car immediately outside our apartment. Those who saw him hit said that the car hit him hard enough that he flew OVER the car, and landed several feet behind it.
My husband was one of the guys who ran down to see if there was anything he could do. He said (and so did the others who were down there), that not only was the boy not moving, he wasn't breathing, and there was no pulse.
I could hear his mother screaming, his brothers and sisters crying. And I prayed that this mother would not know the pain of losing a child. No mother deserves that. I felt at that moment that something had happened...I KNEW that not only had God heard my prayer, but It had answered.
Just as the paramedics were arriving, the boy sat up, and I heard him speak, "I'm fine, Mama. Why are you crying?"
There was not one bruise or scratch on his body, and he was literally fine. No one had an explanation for that.
So there are miracles. All the time. Just waking up, being alive is a miracle. Every day is a miracle. Cases where a child who grows up in a poor, drug-infested and violent home, and grows up to go to college and make something of himself, that's a miracle. Cases where a single mother of four children is able to raise all four to be decent human beings, while working two full-time jobs, that's a miracle.
There are so many more that we DON'T know of. Open your eyes. It's all around you.

Answer 2

Anybody who says that all the small things (birth of a child, getting good grades, finding a penny on the ground) are miracles is just trying to rationalize their own beliefs. A miracle is something extraordinary that happens at just the right time. However, by this definition humans can perform miracles. If we instead use the idea that a miracle must clearly be the work of God, there have never been any.

Isn't it ironic that when you want God to help you make money people say that it doesn't happen because God's not your servant. Meanwhile, when poor people ask for food or medecine and nothing happens, "believers" find some other explanation.
Either miracles or possible or they're not. People shouldn't just find excuses every time a miracle doesn't happen. Let's face it, unless anyone completely understands what God is thinking at all times, nobody should try to rationalize why God isn't helping.

Answer 3

Because technically miracles by their very definition do not exist. A miracle would be an event that would defy a natural law. Because we live in a natural world there is generally an natural explanation for any event. Some people would claim that the few survivors of a disaster have experienced miracles. However, in virtually any disaster the chances are there will be some who survive. I like the people who claim that their prayers to a god saved their relatives from the 9-11 disaster. I wonder what about the other 2900+ people who died. No one prayed for them or to such a god were these people not important enough to save? Basically, there are no miracles. Just unexplained natural events.

Answer 4

A) Miracles come in all sizes and forms. Maybe you just don't know where to look.

B) God knows, you DO need a miracle, but not for belief. You need one that gives you a working brain.

C) And we already HAVE faux gasoline.

D) Why should Almighty God suspend the Laws of Physics for a sinner such as you? *shakes head* Sad, very sad.

E) But don't give up. If you're really searching (the which I beg leave to doubt), He'll hook up with you. Just keep on keepin' on.

Answer 5

There are miracles performed everyday. Babies are born, you wake up every morning, and you have a roof over your head and a job. God has protected you and blessed you with worldly things for a season but a miracle is not the way to believe in God. You may never get you miracle that way if that is what you are seeking from God to show you that he is real.

Answer 6

According to Christian teaching, the "age of miracles" has passed. In 1 Corinthians 13-15 I believe (somewhere in there) Paul states that "tongues and wonders will cease..."

Now, I guess that doesn't prevent God from causing miracles to happen, but from what I understand, he hasn't any intention of wowing us with magic tricks in this age.

Also, you are looking for a miracle that is driven by your own selfish ambition. It's OK to be selfishly ambitious, I guess, but you want God to be an accomplice in that, and I suppose he isn't into it...

Love, Jack

Answer 7

Miracles happen everyday. Just because you don't witness them, doesn't mean they aren't there. To me, a miracle is a man who is hit by a car and paralyzed and then takes his first steps, a baby who isn't suppose to live and is born, or a woman dying of cancer and suddenly goes into remission. God is everywhere. You see Him everyday. Through a kind stranger, an old man, a baby. Miracles do happen. I've seen them!

Answer 8

Funny how these theists argue that things like Lance frikn Armstrong or minor little things amount to the same things that happened in the Bible? Cmon people we want to see Jesus walk on water.....LOLOL. Sometimes I really shake my head at the pure idiocy in this world. People can cure themselves with hope and support. People can be "lucky". It is NOT a miracle from a fictional character that saved Lance or anyone else.

Answer 9

Perhaps you don't see God's miracles because you're not looking. Don't take offense, just read on ...

I didn't believe in them either until I saw some with my own eyes.

After I was saved, I began attending a non-denominational church; several members can objectively PROVE they've been healed miraculously: one man had full-blown AIDS, as demonstrated by his HIV+ status, Kaposi's Sarcoma (and other signs), and very low WBC count. Following a short series of powerful faith healing prayers, he's completely HIV -, with no signs of AIDS at all. He's completely healed.

Another church member (one of our elders) developed leukemia two years ago. As he hovered near death, our church prayed for him. He was completely well about a month later. Despite numerous follow-up blood and bone marrow tests, there's no sign of his leukemia.

We also had a child from a nearby city brought to us who had some type of lung tumor -- proven by biopsy, x-ray and other imaging studies. The church fervently prayed for his healing and the next time he went to the doctor (I only know it was a very short time later), the tumor was completely gone.

Answer 10

So you want God to perform a miracle for you, just so you can profit? Sorry, won't happen. He is not a magician who is here to amuse you or make you rich. He has given us the prophets in the past. We have the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and we have His book, which is His final revelation to us. That is all you need.