Personally, yes, but that's not a "proof." It's a conviction based on experience, and we know that personal experience can be a fallacy.
Appealing to "inner reality" as outer proof is like confusing dreams with wakefulness. It borders on pathology, even psychosis.
It is God's will that His words be sown (parable of the sower.) It is not His will to satisfy the demand for signs or wisdom (reason) - both of which are "proofs Funny that +Paul should re-write the history of God, who used signs and miracles to convince people He was really God!
But, apparently, even His apostles didn't fully believe until they saw and recognized the Resurrected Christ. Even though Peter said "Though art the Son of the living God," he still betrayed Him, and the rest scattered like a bunch of scared little rabbits (save for John).
And wasn't Paul alleged conversion on the way to Damascus a 'miracle' and a 'sign'?
It so easy to just cut out that part with which you disagree and find verses that support your view. Anyone can do that. It's self-serving, A-G, and that's why text-proofing is no proof at all. It all defaults to me-me-me, my experience, my inner knowledge, my reality...solipsism, self-worship, Gnosticism, maybe even worse.
Jeepers, kosta50, Christ made the blind to see and they couldn’t stop talking about what a miracle He did for them.
If they were so convincing, then why did Israel reject Christ? If Peter's shadow could cure the sick, why would the Church fail in Israel. If the Church was to fail in Israel, why did Christ commission his disciples not to go to the Gentiles or Samaritans, but only tot he 12 tribes of Israel?
Why does Paul tell the Jews that they were obliged to preach to them first but now, seeing that they didn't hear the word, the apostles will turn to the Gentiles? (no kidding, where else?) What was the purpose of preaching to the Jews knowing they would not buy into it?
Passers-by demanded proofs of Christ
That's because people believe God is in control! They were applying human logic to God! They were judging God by human standards of control and human justice. No one could imagine that God is gentle and humble. The Reformed don't believe it to this day. They expect a partial tyrant, benevolent to some, and damning to others.
“No one could imagine that God is gentle and humble. The Reformed don’t believe it to this day.”
Even more amazing is there are some who can’t imagine that He is also a God of wrath and righteous anger and judgment who will consign His enemies to “outer darkness” where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth”.
you: Personally, yes, but that's not a "proof." It's a conviction based on experience, and we know that personal experience can be a fallacy. Appealing to "inner reality" as outer proof is like confusing dreams with wakefulness. It borders on pathology, even psychosis.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. – Phl 2:12
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. – Galatians 1:15-19
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. – John 6:63
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:3
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20
[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit... For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his... – excerpts from Romans 8
you: Funny that +Paul should re-write the history of God, who used signs and miracles to convince people He was really God!
Do you not realize that Jesus Christ could have healed everyone at once, raised all of the dead, revealed Himself in power and glory and set up the new heaven and new earth at that time?
Do you not realize that God could have taken the Hebrews directly from Egypt to the Promised Land without stopping at the Red Sea?
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. – Luke 19:40
Signs and miracles of God are punctuated throughout history – but how many miss the miracle of Creation itself – both spiritual and physical - as a sign of God!
As to why God has not yet “wrapped it all up.”
Neverthless, if you are so greatly offended by my quoting the words of God, then ignore me – or ignore those parts of my posts.
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. – Romans 11:11
you: That's because people believe God is in control! They were applying human logic to God! They were judging God by human standards of control and human justice. No one could imagine that God is gentle and humble. The Reformed don't believe it to this day. They expect a partial tyrant, benevolent to some, and damning to others.
The book of Job stands as evidence – especially chapters 38 to the end when Job repents for speaking words without knowledge.
The only way one can know God is personally, by His revelation in the indwelling Spirit who reveals Jesus Christ, personally, to us.
You must be born again. There is no alternative.