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To: HangnJudge; daniel1212

Trouble is with these type of stories is 1) there is no way to verify this actually happened, 2) what actually happened, and 3) no one will really be changed by this event. We file these under the “Interesting” file and move on.

Whether this really happened or not is open to interpretation. But even if God parts the Red Sea few believe it. If He feeds 5,000 people crave for more food. If He raises from the dead we remain skeptical, refusing to believe.

So what point is all this?


30 posted on 07/22/2018 12:53:41 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD

To give an audience to those who bear witness to these events
Maybe we can glean some wisdom from the testimony

Perhaps


31 posted on 07/22/2018 6:32:56 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: HarleyD
no one will really be changed by this event.

That is simply a baseless premise.

But even if God parts the Red Sea few believe it. If He feeds 5,000 people crave for more food. If He raises from the dead we remain skeptical, refusing to believe. So what point is all this?

Because some do believe based on evidential warrant, as God gives grace, revealing His nature, while as with preaching which is also overall rejected, the spurning of God's grace testifies to l the hardness of man, revealing His nature, All to the glory of God.

Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. (Acts 8:5-6)

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. (Romans 15:18-19)

Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. (Matthew 11:20-21)

32 posted on 07/22/2018 7:24:39 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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