(August 29, 2023 at 8:22 am)Ten Wrote: That whole confirmation bias, yeah? Where believers see significance because they're only counting the hits and justifying the misses. You never lose with the thumb on the scale that way!
We seem to have moved on from God acting within nature, than from outside it, which is a good thing because so many corpses of straw men were strewn around the discussion that it was starting to look like an agricultural version of the Somme.
The key thing Jesus did with all that cross stuff is inaugurate the Kingdom of God. At some point, there will be no pain, no death, no delivery drivers lobbing parcels over the fence, no experimental jazz.
Unexpected signs are events where things that will be normal in this new world are starting to happen now. The new creation breaking through. Not radical abnormailities within the old creation, but normal service being resumed from the new.
Even allowing for confirmation bias, it's been my experience that prayer actually works. Not all the time (even Paul had fails 2 Cor 12:6-10), but more than enough to tie up my scepticism.
