Sure people can attribute minor things to "miracles" but likely there is a physical scientific explanation. Personally, I have never seen a burning bush, never saw wine turn into the blood of Christ, never witnessed a healing touch that wasn't explained scientifically. If miracles as outrageous as the ones in the Bible are true, why did they stop? Bet ya 1000 bucks these Biblical "miracles" never happened. Do you have better reasoning?
2007-05-14 05:20:11 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Miracles still happen everyday...profound ones, unexplainable ones, beautiful ones. I feel bad that you do not see them.
The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
Peg
2007-05-14 05:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
God could do the same miracles he used to do, but people like you would just find a way to dismiss it. Who is there left to do miracles for? Not many, that's for sure. Plus the bible says "do not put the Lord your God to the test". The fact that everyone has to have "proof" now, is probably why he doesn't perform the big miracles he used to. Besides, believing would then require no faith.
"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe" - Jesus
"If you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain 'go throw yourself into the sea' it will do it" - Jesus
2007-05-14 05:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
wine doesn't turn into the Blood.
and your bet would be pointless as
a) it's a miracle. the whole point is that it exceeds normality
b) unless you have a time machine, you can't win/lose
miracles haven't stopped, just they're undervalued in today's society. you'll also notice that you won't see them on the news very often, as they're seen as just grouped claims. yes many people attribute healing miracles to the power of suggestion, placebos, a mental catalyst, etc but some still cannot be explained. unless you can cause the body to create anti-disease remedies without outside reactants, you can't say that wasn't a miracle, really.
2007-05-14 05:27:32 · answer #3 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People of that day lived hard and hopeless lifes. To tell them stories of miracles gave them hope and belief.
These did not happen. It is ironic for some to still believe these tall-tales of 2000+ years old are true. You really have to study the culture of people at that time.
Why these stories are believed to be true over other tall-tale stories of that time and why they made there way into religion is remarkable.
But then most of the worlds religions are ancient and full of such tales. Even religions that are no longer in practice, all full of such miracles, superhumans powers, magic, or mysticism, in a time where man had little explaination for the world around him; i.e. earthquakes, plagues, etc.
2007-05-14 05:40:49 · answer #4 · answered by Deanne T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"[The] scientific method merely shows (what no one to my knowledge ever denied) that if miralces did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence. What cannot be trusted to recur is not material for science: that is why history is not one of the sciences. You cannot find out what Napoleon did at the battle of Austerlitz by asking him to come and fight it again in a laboratory with the same combatants, the same terrain, the same weather, and in the same age. You have to go to the records. We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like the innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatments".
2007-05-14 05:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by sharky_13_13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will start again soon enough. The Revelation of John has stuff in there that will curl your toes.
In the meantime, we shouldn't worry about things like that. We have the eyewitness testimony.
Do you believe court records when they state what occurred during a crime? Of course we do, because we are able to read what evidence there is in them.
The same is true of the Bible. The New Testament, especially, contains two eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus (Matthew and John), and the transcripts (if you will) of Peter's account (recorded in Mark) and a report of investigation (Luke and Acts).
Further, Paul clearly states that he received his Gospel from the Lord by revelation. The letters he wrote are a direct result of that.
Therefore, we have credible evidence, and if you applied the Rules of Evidence that are used in courts of law today, these could be used. In fact, one of the founders of Harvard Law School stated this very fact:
Simon Greenleaf wanted to prove that the accounts of the resurrection of Jesus Christ were false. After much research, he determined that the evidence contained in the New Testament accounts could stand scrutiny in a court of law.
2007-05-14 05:30:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sure. If you were to look through the bible at some of the miracles and visions, you'd realize we have the technology to perform a lot of them today. The vision in Ezekiel is some kind of aircraft with lights all over it and photos.
Why is it so hard to accept that if this little planet can spawn people, then why wouldn't the entire universe be able to spawn one supremely intelligent God? It's completely logical to me.
2007-05-14 05:32:12 · answer #7 · answered by Handy man 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have seen many miracles. Usually these miracles take the form of people being given knowledge that could not possible have known on their own.
The miracle was not that the reed sea opened up. The miracle was that Moses got their at exactly the right time.
2007-05-14 05:28:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe they stopped because the last ones with the power to perform miracles from God were the apostles of Christ, and the fact that a new covenant was formed by his sacrifice. The wine never actually turned into blood, it was symbolic, if it became blood, then we would be violating the Bible command to abstain from blood consumption.
2007-05-14 05:27:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hello sweet Kacey Sm… :)
According to Scientist, a miracle defies the very Laws of Nature...that is why they cannot prove nor disprove a miracle.. :)
A Scientist only can prove things, that can be accounted for through the Law of Nature..
My daughter was in the car accident, the doctors at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NH..wanted me to take my daughter off of life support, because she suffered a severe brain injury which is why she was in a coma..they told me she would be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life..I told them that God would heal her..
Her liver was sliced in two, one of her lungs was punctured and she had eight broken ribs..her liver was healed in just three days, the only thing that the ultra sound showed was a scar..said they had not seen anything like it before..that was just two years ago..she is 98% healed of her brain injury also..she is a walking and talking miracle..Amen!!
In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)
2007-05-14 05:41:09 · answer #10 · answered by EyeLovesJesus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have wondered why there are no miracles. Something is screwy with scripture. There's this..John 14: 11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
There,in context,Jesus is clearly referring to the miracles,as he states if you believe in him for no other reason,believe it for the works sake. He then says anyone who believes in him can do what he did...and more?Yet after 2000 years,not 1 person walks on water,raises the dead,etc. This leads to several possible conclusions1)Jesus was wrong or..2)the bible is wrong or 3) no one truly has faith in Jesus preventing any further miracles. I see no other options. There it is,in context,specifically referring to miracles. WHERE ARE THE BELIEVERS?
2007-05-14 05:43:56 · answer #11 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋