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1 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 126090 | ||
I have to apologize. I re-read my post and I guess I wasn't perfectly clear. What I meant to say is that I do believe in miracles from God in today's world but he dispenses them at His discretion, probably with some subtlety but directly to the recipients. You have probably heard of the person who goes to the doctor and gets the proverbial and horrible final briefing from that doctor about his having terminal cancer and he's got a short time to live, maybe a few months. Six months later, he shows back in the doctor's office and low and behold the cancer is in complete remission and now it looks like the person will live for several years. That's a pretty clear miracle. Or the person that walks away from a car accident when the car looks like a crumpled up paper wad. Yes, my friend, we do live in an age of miracles but directly from God to the recipient, no human 3rd party intervening or channeling God's power like in the first century with Apostles. I'm saying that God wants us to graduate from this love affair with this physcial world and learn to prefer His Spiritual World BUT to wait for His calling us Home to get away from this world. We must re-read 1 Cor 13 and learn to prefer love, God like love, unconditional love for our fellow man and for our God and Father and we should do so in preference to the other Spiritual Gifts that God bestows on us. I'm convinced that he never meant for man to be able to dispense these kinds of miracles after the Apostles died along with those on whom they laid their hands. Otherwise, in this world of extreme spiritual immaturity, people would end up worshipping such beings like they tried in the first century. No, our God wants us to come to Him, based on our faith and not on what we see and experience. If we were to actually experience a miracle at the hands of a mere man like the first century then it lessons our faith and our dependence on Him. I hope this clears up this misunderstanding. God bless. Rowdy |
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2 | Scriptural Support? | Bible general Archive 2 | Morant61 | 126096 | ||
Greetings Rowdy! We have been having a lot of discussion lately on the forum about things that are and are not actually stated in Scripture. You wrote: "Yes, my friend, we do live in an age of miracles but directly from God to the recipient, no human 3rd party intervening or channeling God's power like in the first century with Apostles." Where is the Scripture that makes this statement? I do not know of any such Scripture. I also not that you do not qualify your statement of fact by saying that it is simply opinion. If we are to make statements of fact about spiritual things, shouldn't there be at least one Scripture to back them up? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | Scriptural Support? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 126110 | ||
The whole book of Hebrews goes into this subject quite a bit. Its main purpose is to contrast the superiority of the christianity over that of the Law of Moses and Judiasm. One of the Book's main tenents is that you and I are NOW able to approach God directly through Jesus, His Son whereas before in Judiasm, the Jews had to go through their High Priest and he didn't know very much and couldn't answer most of their questions. Now God deals directly with His children like I stated and we can pray directly to Him in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, you and I know we're not going to find the specific words as you mention above. God expects us to study His Word and figure SOME things on our own. But clearly through His Word, we can also see that in today's world there is no one performing miracles anywhere even close to the kind of miracles in the Bible. Hope this helps to clarify and God bless. Rowdy |
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4 | Scriptural Support? | Bible general Archive 2 | Morant61 | 126112 | ||
Greetings Rowdy! The situation you describe in Hebrews also existed during the time of the apostles. How does it justify your postion that now God does not work miracles through anyone else? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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