[Dr. Eckleburg]

If you can believe that God Himself incarnated as a man on Earth, born of a virgin, made the lame walk and the blind see, turned water into wine, died and rose from the dead, and ascended bodily into Heaven, that through His apostles He cast out demons and raised the dead, through Moses parted the Red Sea, had people look upon the brass statue of a serpent to heal snakebites, destroyed a city at the blow of trumpets, turned water into blood, made Aaron's rod blossom, etc. etc. etc.....then why is it so impossible to concieve that He might also work a miracle through slips of paper with prayers written by pious believer?

Because Christ's resurrection is the only miracle men need since Calvary.

Is it not enough for you?

[marsh_of_mists]

...Christ's resurrection is the only miracle men need since Calvary.

Is it not enough for you?

I guess not, since it wasn't enough for St. Luke, who threw all those post-Calvary miracles into the Acts of the Apostles. Not to mention, oh, the Resurrection and the Ascension. Maybe we should cut that book out of the Protestant Bible too...

It's not that miracles are "needed," it's whether or not God still performs them, which he did in apostolic times, according to the Bible.

You've obviously missed all the arguments on the dispensational threads (they can get really rancorous between historic Protestants and the newly-arrived dispys) and all the two-year-long conversations with the Orthodox on the Nativity thread

Maybe Kim Riddlebarger will write her next article on the idolatry of "Constantinoplism."