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Originally posted by Greenize
I know many of you do not believe in Jesus. I do and really do not wish to create an argument about religion! My beliefs are mine and yours are yours. I just seek understanding. Now on with the thread.
According to the scriptures Jesus went about the land healing the sick,feeding thousands with only a few fishes and loaves, raising the dead, pulling money from the mouth of a fish, walking on water...etc.... now when His disciples looked and acted all amazed, He told them not to be surprised that if they had faith even as small as a mustard seed, they could do the same and greater, He said they could tell the mountains to jump into the sea and they would obey... according to one of the lost books of the bible, when Jesus was a child he would make animals from mud/clay and animate them... How? Surely someone on this earth has had the tiniest bit of faith...why hasn't anyone else been able to do miracles?
Did Jesus have access to secret knowledge? If so what knowledge and whose?
Like in the old testament, the magicians mimicked nearly everything that God had Moses do? Is this maybe part of the same knowlege? Or was it all just trickery?
Why would He say we could do the same and more if only we believed? Is faith the same as postive thinking?
If secret knowlege, has it been lost over time?
Originally posted by Greenize
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Hey, I totally understood what you just said! Thank you!!
That makes sense! And isn't there a scripture somewhere that says something about increasing knowlege will leave you troubled or something like that?
Miracles don't happen.
How does one overcome their fears in an effort or progress on the spiritual path?
Miracles don't happen.
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And a person who adamantly believes miracles don't happen could witness the parting of the Red Sea with a fireworks show and never realize anything out of the ordinary was happening.
You lost me when you started talking about one of the lost books of the bible, you know some of these books were lost for a reason, because they were false in ancient times and are still false today...
Originally posted by Dzlr40
I experianced a Miracle just a few weeks ago,
When i was 30 i had to have spinal surgery for a shattered disk and ever since then i have had very frequent problems with my sciatic nerve. when it goes i am in agony and cant walk for days to weeks, last time it was 3 months and the doctors can't do anything about it..
I have 2 young sons that i look after.
anyway about 3 weeks ago my back started to get sore, then the sciatic nerve kicked in and i was in agony on the floor for a few hours, my boys where screaming (I couldnt help them) the wife was at work and i was in tears..
all i could do was pray.. I prayed for forgiveness for every wrong i have ever done to anyone and prayed for help, i wasn't praying for me it was to help my kids.. Well it was like a switch had been flicked, the pain just stopped and hasn't returned! when you experiance something like that you are never the same again.....
Now as to your objections based on what you perceive as your ability to judge God I am not even going to give them the time of day. If you genuinely want answers to such trifling questions all you need to do is study the Bible with a genuinely enquiring, but humble mind.
God is no respecter of persons in this sense: he justly condemns everyone who has broken his law, written both in his commandments and in men's consciences, no matter who they are, pauper or President.
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