How come God never performs those really weird miracels any more? Such as?

Question

Such as:

Turning the Nile River to blood.

Turning Lot's wife Elaine into a pile of salt.

Levitating Jesus onto a cloud.

Stoppping the sun for a day.

Turning Moses' rod into a snake.

Feeding the Hebrew folk with matzoh nuggets from the sky.

Making Balom's donkey talk.

These are some of God's really weird miracles, and so sensational that the heathens were unable to deny them. Question: How come God doesn't ever do them anymore?

Answer 1

I like the one where the kids made fun of the prophet Elisha, so God possessed some she-bears and ripped the brats limb from limb (2Kings 2:23-25). Maybe if God was still "in the game" like that, we'd have fewer of these mocking unbelievers running around.

Answer 2

That is a great question. I'm a Hindu, but I'd still like to see some of these. Maybe, they never happened. Maybe the Bible is all a work of fiction. I won't go as far to say there is no God. Because I believe there is. In fact, there was the "milk miracle" where deities of the Hindu God Ganesha drank milk. I wonder why the Christian's God didn't do at least one miracle, just to say, "Hey, I'm the real God. Not some Hindu idol" . Except that Hindu "idol" did a miracle for his followers. Anyway, it will be interesting to see what Christians say.

Answer 3

Because God does not and has never existed. What some people called miracles were really geo-physical phenomenon like earthquakes, lightning, tremendous storms etc., so not being able to explain these events to each other they erroneously assumed or deemed that there must be some higher (supernatural) power. Throughout time these fallacies, and the people who claim them to be fact, have been at the center of the greatest and most deadly conflicts of all time. More people have been killed under the guise of religion than any other reason. How can anyone believe their ridiculous spew.

Answer 4

Well, I've heard of translation - being physically or in the spirit transported to another part of the World in both Orthodox and Protestant denominations.
I've also heard of some food multiplication miracles, like the feeding of the 5000, in the 3rd world.
He does them generally (but rarely at the moment) on behalf of His people, so unbelievers are unlikely to see them.

Answer 5

Those miracles were performed to deal with specific situations. God does miracles today as well.

First off, God changes vile, filthy, self-absorbed men and women from all walks of life into Godly saints. That is a greater miracle than all the ones you listed.

Second, God has used me to pray for people to be healed and they were healed on the spot. God has also used me to cast out demons from people and from homes and they left.
God has also used me to lead others to a saving knowledge of His Son Jesus Christ. God has also given me very strong anointed sermons that brought people to their knees before Him in repentance and tears, and I am not a famous person but an everyday Christian who just loves to serve God.

Before you think I have a fat head, I want to assure you that I know that all power comes from God or as James 1:17 says,
"Every good and perfect gift comes from above, and comes to us from the Father of Lights with whom their is no variableness or shadow of turning." I take no credit for all that God has been able to accomplish through my life and acknowledge that He alone deserves all glory, honor and praise for any good that ever come from my life!!!

There is one more miracle that many don't consider anymore because we are living in a technological age where people are so absorbed in inventions that they miss the smaller and, to them, insignificant things like how an egg and sperm can create a living being. Another miracle that has occurred since Adam and Eve were created.

I could go on but I think that is sufficient for any intelligent man or woman to consider.

Answer 6

Funny I was thinking of this the other day,I can only guess that
he's lost interest in the ant farm or he doesn't like showing off much anymore,
Maybe he's constipated!

Miracles? like Katrina,, the wave that hit Indonesia,,The starvation and plagues he sends our way,etc. etc. etc.

Answer 7

I've got to say that if Elaine on Seinfeld had been turned into a pillar of salt, I'd have to reconsider my Atheism. Especially if it had happened while she was dancing.

Answer 8

Strangely, this has also coincided with the presence of cameras everywhere. It seems God does not like to be caught on tape.

Answer 9

They're only funny the first time around, his latest miracle was turning his believers into sex offenders.

Answer 10

He does perform miracles like that, but the common person just doesn't see them. There are many that do see miracles like this and they still don't believe. Showing us miracles to make us believe isn't how it works, theres a much slower but steady process of being converted.

The righteous watch patiently and with alerness for the signs, but the sign-seekers, those that have to have proof, were called a wicked and adulterous generation. If you need proof of that, ask a question here and see how many people say its OK to have premarital sex, and how many are there that say that everything can be explained by science. Miracles aren't meant to give people faith, they are meant to strengthen faith that people already have. God still performs them, but in the best way and at the best times, just like He did in the accounts that we have in the Bible.