RE: The Absolute Truth
March 15, 2013 at 11:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2013 at 11:05 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 15, 2013 at 10:36 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: ...miracles should have happened every now and again at my Pentecostal church of ~1000 people, answered prayers shouldn't look like a trivial coincidence based on explainable factors...If you take the the total number of miracles recorded in the Bible and you divide by the period of time covered by the Bible, say roughly 6000 years, then you will see that even by biblical standards miracles are very rare events. Now there are clusters of miracles (punctuated equilibrium if you will) around certain exceptional figures, like Moses and Jesus, but that is to be expected. Plus there seems to be dry spells, like the 400 years of Egyptian captivity.