UNLESS I know you a LOT less than I think I do . . .
which sometimes I wonder about . . .
I *THINK* you would affirm more than you seemed to in that post. At the end, you sort of hint, sort of assert slightly that you believe in MODERN ERA miracles.
I think you believe in them quite strongly—though your criteria may differ from that of some of us.
Am I wrong?
Can you give any examples of modern miracles you have observed in your life or the lives of those close to you?
I mean . . . more than the great enough miracles of spiritual rebirth etc. . . . but miracles that any fair-minded observer seeing all the evidence would have to conclude were genuine supernatural miracles???
You and I have chatted several times about my mother's gift of faith. We Christians all have the grace of faith but her's was something to behold.
Whenever she laid a burden down before the Lord she never picked it up again. It was a "done deal."
And many miracles followed.
The earliest was when she was just a kid. Her cousin also a kid was hit by a vehicle and his abdomen opened up throwing his intestines onto the street. The doctors said there was no hope. All but mom believed the doctors, she prayed. He survived and became a preacher.
There are too many miracles to itemize here but I will mention her being booked for surgery in her senior years to repair a hiatal hernia. She was all packed and had prayed about it. After they did the preop xrays the doctors came to her and said there must have been a mistake and sent her home.
Her faith was so strong I really wondered whether she would ever get sick enough to die physically. The day she died, she placed the lifeline my brother got her which she had never used on the coffee table. As I looked at her I knew she want to wrap it up and going home. And she did.
And so this passage has particular meaning for me:
For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.
But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you. - Philippians 1:20-24
God's Name is I AM.