We're losing established ground here. I already stated that of course the intent of a miracle is to do something other than instill faith. God instills faith without miracles every day, but we hear personal miracles change the faithless into the faithful all the time. It doesn't matter what the intent of a miracle is. It does not negate the need for explicit miracles in this day and age, miracles that could make a difference in the lives of the suffering and have the extra bonus of changing the faithless into the faithful. Why did the era of explicit miracles end?You're off on a tangent ..... wiggle room to your left.
You just jumped on the "supernatural bandwagon." No one knows what that is unless they experience something like that for themselves.
Again. God did not give supernatural signs to make atheists into believers.
The Bible never condones supernatural signs as for a means to evangelize. The signs are for those who will believe when they rarely occurred.
Jesus thought little of supernatural signs... here!
“He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers.
Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
“Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
“‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
“He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced
even if someone rises from the dead.’”
No, Christians that violate the commandments they are commanded to adhere to are trophies for some great design proving that he did in fact create free will. Atheists are proof that God is a very weak concept.God's not going to let those whom He knows are his to slip through his fingers. Atheists are a trophy of sorts for great design. It proves that he did in fact create free will.
Absence and hiddenness in His creation are not necessary for that. This is where your example of CNN and MSNBC come into play. They don't need to be hidden to not be believed. You have a serious non-sequitur there.Though it is his desire that all believe? He created life that has reserved an area of privacy that can even defy the one who created him.
And you are proof that man makes up some pretty silly stuff to hide from his ignorance.You are proof to Satan that God is not to blame for how he ended up.
Everything serves a purpose....
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