With his supposed powers, why did he cure just a few blind people and just bring a few people back to life. Why did he waste his powers sending evil spirits into pigs and cursing fig trees. Why didn't he end world hunger or make sure that no kids were ever born with severe defects. This would have solved two problems, one, the actual miracle and two, there would be no atheists.
2006-10-18 13:08:01 · 29 answers · asked by Kathryn™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was really limited by the script writer and director.
2006-10-18 13:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by Pablito 5 · 6⤊ 5⤋
I'd like you to stop and listen to yourself. "Cure just a few blind people"?? "Bring a few people back to life."????
Jesus has healed much more than just a few blind people. "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people." Matthew 4:23.
He fed four thousand people with Seven loaves and a few little fish. And you ask for a better miracle?
Let me ask you a question.. can YOU turn water into wine?
Wait, can you bring someone back from the dead? Lazarus was dead for FOUR days (John 11:39) when Jesus raised him from the dead. Why are you selling Christ short for the "small" miracles He did?? John 21:25 states: "And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen."
I honestly think that if God put an end to world hunger and/or made sure no kids were ever born with severe defects people would praise their own and not him. Making up some kind of "reason" this phenomenon had happened. Do you really think that if there was no more hunger in the world people would automatically fall down on their knees and proclaim Jesus as King?
they should, but the sad truth is, they wouldn't.
People shouldn't need signs and wonders (which Jesus had shown) in order to believe in Him. They just need faith. Which, sadly, this world is lacking. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen..." "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." Hebrews 11:1 and 3
"Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Corinthians 1:20-21 and 25)
Miracles happen all the time, everyday- even today. Some or made believers out of it, but there are those who turn their eyes away, hardening their hearts, unwilling to accept that there is but one True God.
2006-10-18 20:38:25 · answer #2 · answered by SJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate to say this, but have you ever read the bible? He wasn't puting on a play, or did he perform miracles to win over the atheists. One does not have to read the whole bible, or sit back and question the book. All one must do is read the book of Revelations, and ask yourself how he could have known this, way back then? We do not live in a perfect world, and we have a choice. This is what its about, and that we have something to keep to go by. The bible is nothing more than a users handbook, similar to the manual you got when you got your computer. If you don't believe it, then thats fine. I'm not sure I believe a lot of it either, but as I get older, I see more and more (each day) things that I stand back and say "wow, I remember reading about that" years ago in the bible. There is a 50/50 chance the bible is true, so if I were to gamble on it, I would hate like he*l to know I was wrong! Who really knows? There are many things that are far fetched, but many things that are so real one can taste it. I don't really know, so I don't just dispell it as a bunch of bullsh*t. I do know there is an awful lot of people that believe in it, as there are a lot of people that don't believe in it. We still have this age old question as to where did we come from, and a bunch of scientist trying in vain to prove it to be a lie. The Ten Commandments all seem to be very true, in order to live a peaceful life. One in particular "Thou shall not kill". We have many so called christians killing every day, and I do question how christians can kill and think it's ok. There are just too many things in the bible that don't compute, but the Revelations sure hit the nail on the head as to what has and will happen. More questions, than answers... go figure?
2006-10-18 20:39:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think I would have had to be there. Also I would have to speak Aramaic and Hebrew. Then I would know if it was a fact. I think I would want to take along a videocam. Right now, I have some books that say this book is right, and all other books are wrong, and only if you follow this book exactly are you going to have a good life after you die. Also, if I finally decide on which book, it's impossible to follow all the instructions. Also, I will wonder what if I picked the wrong book that says all followers of books other than this are going to burn forever in hell, when there's another book that says all other followers of any book except the other book are going to burn forever in hell. Also, there are parts of all these books that you have to turn off your thinking brain before you read them. It's like saying you never really see anything until it's midnight and all the lights in the house are turned off. I don't get it. Also, how do you know Jesus didn't choose some better miracles to perform, but the disciples only liked the clown show ones? You don't know that, now do ya?
2006-10-18 20:20:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mark Porter 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I bet the people that he healed of blindness, leperousy, paralysis and who knows what else didn't think he was hwasting his power. I bet the people he brought back to life were thinking wow this guy just performed a good thing.
His miracles are ment as a show Gods love but hearts had to be receptive to be able to believe.
2006-10-18 20:20:33 · answer #5 · answered by dreson k 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh... the point is a little different.
Just bringing a few people back to life? Not good enough?
We have made our choices as a human race including rebelling against and rejecting God. He came and showed himself, the living God, to us. In his wisdom he gave us choice and showed himself as God, to us in many ways including teaching the truth of our lives, his sacrifice to open the way to eternal life, and miracles, among other things ...
He wants us to choose him in faith, because that is where redemption is. Not in solving every problem man has created, and that does not mean he does not care, but we trust him in faith for all we cannot see.
Read "The Purpose-Driven Life" By Rick Warren if you are struggling, a clear explanation of life.
And trust God's wisdom - he is our Creator and perfect in his ways.
Blessings - you sound warm-hearted and wonderful. Ask God to show you himself, and he will.
2006-10-18 20:20:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
good question!
and why didn't the bible predict anything that couldn't have been forseen in those times?
"But just imagine how breathtakingly specific a work of prophecy would be, if it were actually the product of omniscience. If the Bible were such a book, it would make perfectly accurate predictions about human events.You would expect it to contain a passage such as "In the latter half of the the twentieth century, humankind will develop a globally linked system of computers - the principals of which I set forth in Leviticus - and this system shall be called the Internet." The Bible contains nothing like this. In fact, it does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century. This should trouble you.
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
2006-10-18 20:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Better yet, Why did Jesus heal on the Sabbath? It is written that to write all that Jesus did it would fill the earth. What is written is enouph so we can have faith in God. Seek and you shall find. That is the way God wants it. The earth itself is a book. Also the testimonies of Christians who are saved by Grace.
2006-10-18 20:13:20 · answer #8 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God is not trying to simply prove to the world He exists. You're right - that would have been easy to do with much greater miracles...and even now think what He could do. God is interested in romancing us...He is interested in our hearts. And that is why He surrounds us with so many evidences of Him, and yet awaits for us to discover them as we earnestly seek Him. God loves to reveal Himself...He is just looking for those who would love to know Him.
By the way, I pray that you are not misled by the many who post their responses to your questions and insult you, and so forth. God is love...and often times God has some of the worst PR people. I myself am guilty of being a bad representation of His love. God Bless!
2006-10-18 20:23:54 · answer #9 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did exactly what he did in order to fulfill all that was written about him in the the old testament of the Bible.
He expects you to solve the world's problems.
Better get busy.
2006-10-18 20:40:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus wasn't seeking Glory for himself, Jesus had a mission, God's will, to attract peoples attention, basically that people knew why he was there, and that they knew that this was written in scripture, and that after his death, and rise that Christianity would take effect, that these people would have a chance of their choice to live eternity in Heaven or Hell:)
2006-10-18 20:33:28 · answer #11 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋