how come God doesn't perform obvious miracles anymore?

Question

In the bible, there are all kinds of stories about Moses parting the sea, staffs turning into snakes, etc. Why are there no more miracles like those in this present time?

poppet - if I can't see the miracles, than they wouldn't be obvious, would they?

A lot of people are describing "miracles" that happen every day, when they are normal occurences.

Answer 1

I think He still does, but we are more numb to the effect and source of it. We attribute everything or most things to science like our God is not a scientific God, he made nature.

God bestows upon all members of His church in every age spiritual gifts which each member is to employ in loving ministry for the common good of the church and of humanity. Given by the agency of the Holy Spirit, who apportions to each member as He wills, the gifts provide all abilities and ministries needed by the church to fulfill its divinely ordained functions. According to the Scriptures, these gifts include such ministries as faith, healing, prophecy, proclamation, teaching, administration, reconciliation, compassion, and self-sacrificing service and charity for the help and encouragement of people. Some members are called of God and endowed by the Spirit for functions recognized by the church in pastoral, evangelistic, apostolic, and teaching ministries particularly needed to equip the members for service, to build up the church to spiritual maturity, and to foster unity of the faith and knowledge of God. When members employ these spiritual gifts as faithful stewards of God's varied grace, the church is protected from the destructive influence of false doctrine, grows with a growth that is from God, and is built up in faith and love. (Rom. 12:4-8; 1 Cor. 12:9-11, 27, 28; Eph. 4:8, 11-16; Acts 6:1-7; 1 Tim. 3:1-13; 1 Peter 4:10, 11.)

Answer 2

Lol the answers regarding birth and air as miracles justify your question ha ha.

ATTN ALL READ what a miracle is: I'll help you
According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miracle meaning 'something wonderful', is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. People in different faiths have substantially different definitions of the word miracle. Even within a specific religion there is often more than one usage of the term.

The description of most miracles in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and in the Christian (which use both the New Testament and the Old) are generally the same as the modern-day definition of the word: God manipulates the 'laws of nature'. Examples of God's miracles include raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, returning a shriveled hand to normal, cleansing leprosy, calming a storm, and walking on water. Many of these were performed by Jesus Christ.

I'm going to look up this in yahoo and see if it's been asked yet: Why do Gnostics believe the air we breath and birth is a miracle?

Answer 3

My son needed a liver trabsplant 2 months ago. I prayed really hard, I prayed the chaplet of The Divine Mercy. Now my baby is cancer-free, all the tumors are gone without any surgery... the doctors last week were amazed. It must be the worked of THE GREATEST PHYSICIAN! For more testimonies on miracles by the Divine Mercy here are links for you to visit:

http://www.apodivinemercy.com
http://our.homewithgod.com/divinemercy/miracles/

I've seen the paralysed walked, the blinds see again, the uncurable skin diseases were cured and more!

I even experienced receiving messages from the HOLY SPIRIT... everytime it happens... my tears can't stop from falling... and I feel inner peace and happiness.

I'm more than blessed to experienced these things! They are proof that our GOD is a LIVING and MERCIFUL GOD.

Don't stop believing!!! Miracles do happen every second of our life. =)

Answer 4

Mike, honestly, I don't know for sure, but I've read that God used miracles to establish His prophets as proof to confirm them to the people. It seems in the Bible that miracles are frequent, but realize that the Bible covers thousands of years in time and only the highlights in time when God was doing a special work. He used miracles to establish his special prophets, Christ, and finally the apostles. We must remember that what we consider normal everyday stuff are really miracles that God chose to happen on a regular basis because that's the way He prefers to get things done typically. To me a child being conceived and born is a pure miracle. Magnetic forces are magic with a scientific name. The perfectly round orbs of the solar system and their dance around the sun is like art of the highest degree.

Answer 5

Miracles are everywhere, and much better ones that aren't tricks to intimidate and control. (Really, now wasn't the God of the Old Testament just cruel and unforgiving?) Compare those Old Testament miracles to the ones in the New Testament---we've got a different God working in the New Testament, one based on total love and forgiveness.

Now, go make some miracles on your own. You can.

Answer 6

There never were any miracles. The Bible was written some time ago, and "miracles" worked their way in as a sort of proof of religion. I can see no justification for God working miracles back then and not working them now. BTW, I do believe in God, I just don't believe in the Bible or in miracles.

All the so-called "miracles" of today, such as "I was born", etc. are day-to-day events which happened without intervention from God.

Answer 7

Not sure. One theory Ive heard is that in those days miracles were more necessary for people to believe in God. Thus most miracles were in some way acted out through the prophets of the old testament and disciples of the new testament as a means to reveal God or to make people believe.

Answer 8

As of the first 7 answers, no one is taking your question seriously. Some don't believe in God and mock it, others discount the nature of what a miracle is in order to answer the question.

It is a great question. Clearly, given the spreading evils of Islamic Anti-Semitism, there is no clear demonstration of God's power standing up for his people, the Jews. (This, coming from a christian). There is no great prophet restraining the evils of IAS, returning murders back on the evil imans who sponsor terror and assassinations. There are no firestorms falling on Syria or Iran. The oppressions of North Korea go unanswered. Innocent babes and animals are attacked with horrible illness, and no one raises a powerful hand to save and heal them.

This is the power of God.

Perhaps God is actually a dispensationalist. I hope not. Perhaps he gives out different "types" of grace in different ages (He "dispenses" grace A in age A, grace B in age B ... etc.), and this age his grace is given via reason and witness rather than via miracles. That would be horrible, and make for a very sad type of worship that I am fated to.

My answer, in essence, is to ask God Himself this, and insist on getting an answer.

Again, a great question ... you are not far from the kingdom of God.

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Answer 9

It's simple, if there was a God, wouldn't he be a little bit too old to perfom miracles? I mean, the Bible was written a long time, so he's probably not around anymore.

Answer 10

I've experienced a number of obvious miracles in my life, in response to fervent prayer, coupled with strong faith in God.

If you're not experiencing them, you're probably not on the "life path" God wants you to be, or you're simply going about it the wrong way.

These days, most of us don't have enough real, personal faith to accomplish very much, so it's usually necessary to enlist others in our cause, praying and believing together to obtain what we need from God.

I'm sure other people of faith will back me up on this.

Answer 11

Matthew 12:38-42: "Then as an answer to him some of the scribes and Pharisees said: “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” 39 In reply he said to them: “A wicked and adulterous generation keeps on seeking for a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jo´nah the prophet. 40 For just as Jo´nah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 41 Men of Nin´e·veh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it; because they repented at what Jo´nah preached, but, look! something more than Jo´nah is here. 42 The queen of the south will be raised up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it; because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Sol´o·mon, but, look! something more than Sol´o·mon is here.

The Bible is complete now and there is no longer any need of signs and miracles. We have a great crowd of witnesses who attest to God's power and works and it is up to us to study and to learn about God through His Word.

Proverbs 14:25: "A true witness is delivering souls, but a deceitful one launches forth mere lies."

Isaiah 19:20: "And it must prove to be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry out to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a savior, even a grand one, who will actually deliver them."

Matthew 24:14: " And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."

John 18:27: " Therefore Pilate said to him: “Well, then, are you a king?” Jesus answered: “You yourself are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone that is on the side of the truth listens to my voice.”

Acts 22:15: " because you are to be a witness for him to all men of things you have seen and heard"

Revelation 1:5: "and from Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness,” “The firstborn from the dead,” and “The Ruler of the kings of the earth.”

Isaiah 43: 10-13: "“YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that YOU may know and have faith in me, and that YOU may understand that I am the same One. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none. 11 I—I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no savior.”

12 “I myself have told forth and have saved and have caused [it] to be heard, when there was among YOU no strange [god]. So YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I am God. 13 Also, all the time I am the same One; and there is no one effecting deliverance out of my own hand. I shall get active, and who can turn it back?”