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Sat 30 May, 2009 02:11 am
Does the Bible indicate that there are no miracles or faithful?
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Neither of the perfect above speak of miracle working as a benefit of being as God.
Matthew 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Much of religion is based on the belief that God is a perfect miracle worker.
Matthew 5 indicates that man can be as perfect as God.
Genesis 3 indicates that to be as Gods we must eat of the tree of knowledge as Eve did but it does not say anything about gaining the ability to do miracles.
Matthew 17 indicates that any that have even a small amount of faith can do miracles.
Either miracles are available to man and God, or not.
Jesus indicates that they are but is it possible that those who say they have faith do not really because no one has yet shown even the small amount of faith that would trigger the miracle working ability.
I personally do not believe in miracles but at the same time I do not like the idea that those of faith are deceiving themselves or others as to the reality of their faith.
What do those of Faith, from the Pope on down to protestant faiths, think of Matthew 17.
Is there not one man alive with this small amount of faith?
Regards
DL