Prayer

[Asmodee]

First, the big one (I know it's more than one, but it's a general theme rather than a single question).  Miracles were obviously not rare in the Bible.  Why are they so rare now?  What purpose did they serve in the past that no longer needs served now?  Why did God change?

Not put to me but .. hahahahahah .. as if that would stop me.

I think it is like any other whopper.  What was ordinary enough at the time just becomes more grand with every telling.  By the time the feeding of the multitude gets committed to paper what might have started as five people noticing how content they'd been with so little food while passing an interesting afternoon with a charismatic guy becomes a miracle of magical proportions.  These should be phased out or relegated to children's literature in the same vein as Santa.

I could not agree more.  There is archeological evidence that the Biblical flood was actually a local, albeit catastrophic event.  I'm sure to the people at the time it was the "whole world".  But obviously none of them were forewarned, nor did they build a big-ass boat and load it up with animals, nor were all who told the story over the years sprung from the same family.  At least, not until you go back far enough to trace our original evolutionary ancestor.  Large evolutionary change does, after all, start with a single offspring, not an entire populous just poofing into existence.