(January 20, 2012 at 11:21 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(January 19, 2012 at 4:57 pm)Godschild Wrote: I haven't gotten any further than chapter 12 so I can't as of yet address the other verses but, I do believe I will find them to be the same, that is, that God was doing the work through Peter and the other disciples.
I will have other comments later, it could be Monday or Tuesday, I'm go out of town tomorrow.
I'll save you some time.
Your answers will be, "GodDidIt... GodDidIt... GodDidIt... GodDidIt..."
You've managed to miss the entire point of the OP and totally forgotten my question. Are you prepared to take ownership of all this woo, that is you really and honestly think that the universe really operates this way?
Followup question, since I think I can safely assume a "yes", is to explain your beliefs. There are, as I see it, two possibilities:
1. The overwhelming woo of Acts is still happening today but it's all really stealthy and happens under the radar somehow. Explain in detail. Government run Men in Black keeping it all under wraps? Satan's keeping it covered up to con atheists into Hell? Pure chance?
2. 2000 years ago was the age of woo. That was then, this is now. Now we live in a natural universe. Explain in detail. Is God taking a thousand year nap? Did Jesus sign a peace treaty with Satan? Has the dragon blood that once ran strong among sorcerers thinned out over the generations?
So it's not scripture that you want to argue, it's your idea that you have never nor will ever believe in any miracles because we live in a natural world. I agree we live in a natural world and in this natural world God reaches in and miracles become part of reality. I can not recall Paul ever being used of God for miracles such as healing the sick or raising the dead and ect. he was however used to bring salvation to many people and that's the greatest miracle of all. Miracles still happen today people who do not believe dismiss them as something we can not explain, well do we not describe a miracle as something that is not explainable, if we could explain a miracle it would not be a miracle now would it. Jesus need not sign a treaty with Satan, Jesus has complete power over him. Are you trying to say that 2000 years ago the universe was not natural, you think things in the universe have some how changed from mysterious to natural. You're trying to give Satan to much credit, there's much he has no control over, there's much he can not do. You sound like some Christians I know who think that Satan cause's all there problems, when all the need to do is take a look at there selves.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
