(June 5, 2020 at 11:59 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(June 5, 2020 at 10:05 pm)chimp3 Wrote: One thing you notice about miracles is that they are always in somebodies favor. Jesus turning water into wine because the wedding planner skimped and the crowd was thirsty. Splitting the Sea at least in favor of the Hebrews. But what about miracles in favor of no one? What if some of the Wedding crowd were 6 months sober and in AA? What if Muhammed flew across Arabia on a winged horse? Then the horse in flight shit, the shit fell and turd fell from the sky and knocked over a lamp, and burned a family up? I can think of a multitude of scenarios where the miracle was not a positive event. You?
Turning Lot's wife into a pillar of salt seems not to have been in her favor.
You could argue that the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah didn't benefit from their treatment.
The ten plagues of Egypt eventually got the Hebrews freed but weren't so great for the Egyptians. You'd think that a little teleportation would have been tidier all around.
And of course there's the time that God drowned the world. The Bible is replete with these exercises of divine power and whether you consider them miracles or curses is largely a matter of perspective and semantics.
