PING TO DR E et al:
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We don’t need miracles, healings, or anything else. All we need is the word of God to see His miracles.
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Glad for your caveat . . . however . . . the above
seems to indicate that you think that the nature of, the qualities of, the essences of man have dramatically, significantly, wholesale changed since 2000 years ago.
I find that an enormously flawed, erroneous, silly idea.
That's not to say there aren't miracles. Every breath of life for God's children is a miracle of grace. Every illness that is healed is by His hand. Every step is by the leading of the Holy Spirit.
"And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." -- Isaiah 30:21
As I get older, I literally find myself stepping back like when taking a photograph, and in doing so my point of view widens to include more. Everything is by and through and for Jesus Christ, whether we acknowledge that truth or not. (But life is profoundly happier when we do acknowledge it.)
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." -- Colossians 1:16-17"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
That is so inclusive, so thorough and absolute, who can ignore it?
And the resurrection proved it all true. Aren't we just the most fortunate of men and women?
I did not say that God doesn't do miracles today. What I said was that we don't need miracles. Christians walk by faith and not by sight. We rest in God's promises, not in anything else.