(May 8, 2014 at 11:33 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: This has been mentioned in another forum, and people seem to be fawning over it as though it is the holy grail absolutely proving God's existence.
It's a shame we live in the modern age where we have to rely upon all this philoso-babble to convince the heathen trash. Back in the old days, there was an abundance of overt displays of Yahweh's power, one's that couldn't be written off as coincidence or natural occurrence.
Consider what Jesus promised:
Jesus Wrote:Mark 16:17-18 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
How odd that there are 2 billion Christians (counting all the phony ones) and yet not one can cast a Cure Light Wounds spell. I'm going to have to pray on that...
It seems, from reading the Bible, that people were able to perform miracles in the name of Jesus back in the day. The Book of Acts of the Apostles details the following:
- Intervention by angels (Acts 5:19, 12:7-10, 12:23)
- Magical instant fluency in foreign languages (Acts 2:4, 10:46, 19:7)
- Curing the sick or handicapped (Acts 3:2-7, 5:15-16, 9:33-34, 14:8-10, 28:8-9)
- Peter casts an Earthquake Spell (I think that's a sixth level cleric spell) (Acts: 4:31)
- Holy Ghost powered lie detection and miraculous execution (Acts 5:3-10)
- Casting out demons (Acts: 8:7, 10:38, 16:18)
- Bright lights, booming voice from the sky (Acts 9:3-4, 26:13)
- Peter casts a Raise Dead spell (5th level cleric spell) (Acts 9:36-40)
- Paul casts a Blindness Spell (3rd level cleric spell) (Acts: 13:11)
- Holy artificats like Paul's Handkerchiefs (Acts 19:11)
- Paul casts a raise dead spell (Acts 20:12)
So why can't people of faith work this divine magic today? If only we could just perform a healing ritual under medical peer review, we could provide evidence that would convince every single godless heathen on this forum. I'm going to have to pray on that...
So until the Holy Spirit gets his mojo working again, I guess we'll just have to rely on variations on this philoso-babble theme:
Step 1: Blah blah blah
Step 2: Blah blah blah
Step 3: Therefore, Jesus
Praise the Sweet Name of Jesus anyway.
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