I will answer here since im a guy and dont want to respect the idea of ask a womans room buy actually leaving it for women to answer. Do miracles still happen? Yes. My cousin was healed instantly from varicose veins and my aunties sight was healed from having to wear thick glasses to not needing to wear any. Do miracles happen every time someone gets prayed for? no, and im not God to be able to answer why that is though the bible does give some reasons why for some cases. But God does still do miracles and that is just 2 cases in one persons family imagine how many world wide. We serve a great and wonderful God and im greatful for all he has,is and will do both miraculously and not as he is perfect, all knowing, all powerful, never changing and lovingly intervenes according to his perfect will.
"First, is there any biblical character who is known to have moved a mountain"
Yes, any problem in a person's life that he cannot change is a mountain. Jesus mentioned a mountain to emphasize that no matter how difficult or impossible a situation may seem, faith can do anything. It didn't say anything about God's will or not God's will. Go back and read Mark 11:23. Then go back and read Matthew 7:21-23. These people were charged with not following God's will, in fact, they were practicing lawlessness. And they performed miracles, which is proof that miracles can be performed to one's own advantage. It doesn't have to involve God's will. The Antichrist and false prophet will also perform miracles and signs, and do you think that's going to be in line with God's will also? Will God support mass deception through miracles? I don't think so. Therefore miracles can happen outside of God's will. How do they happen? Read Mark 11:23. The only ingredient listed there is faith. Mark 11:23 doesn't say you have to be a Christian. It doesn't say you have to be saved, give tithe, or keep the Ten Commandments. In fact, the people in Matthew 7:23 were wicked people performing signs, prophesying, casting out demons, etc.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:24, "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." How do you think this is going to happen if signs and miracles can only be performed by God and has to be in line with God's will? Your beliefs are so messed up! First of all, you wouldn't even recognize a miracle if it happened to you. Have to be dead for 4 days? What kind of stupid requirement is that. If someone is dead for 3 days and comes back to life, that's not a miracle? Admit it, you're a hardcore miracle denier. You don't know what a miracle is. You don't know who can and cannot perform a miracle. It's in front of you in Mark 11:23. It pokes your eye out. But you can't see it. Complete darkness, my friend. Complete darkness.
Okay. Let's talks for a moment about faith. The faith Mark 11:23 talks about is different than believing in Jesus. Anyone can believe in Jesus and go to heaven, but that faith does not equal miracle working faith. Miracle working faith believes that the person commanding the miracle has the authority and the universe will obey. Read Mark 11:23 again. It doesn't say the miracle will happen to those who believe that I am Lord. It says the miracle will happen to those who believe that it will happen at their command. So, don't confuse the two.
Secondly, when we're talking about miracles, any experience where someone is facing an impossible obsticle or something happens that seems unexplainable is a miracle. I have thought a lot about God parting the Red Sea. They have found a passage across the sea where the seafloor is very shallow, and if a strong wind blows, it could possibly push the water back and so people could walk across the sea. So, there are people who try to explain every miracle and say "yeah, it wasn't really a miracle. It was just a coincidence or luck." BUT! It says in Exodus 14:22 says, "So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left." When the wind pushes the waters back, naturally, the water level goes down. It doesn't stand up like a wall. Water never stands up like a wall. That's not natural. We're talking about a miracle here. Sure, all miracles may be surrounded by something natural as well, but that doesn't mean that it's not a miracle. For example, when Paul and Silas were in prison, an earthquake happened and opened the prison doors. Do you think that was not a miracle? Well, it had a natural explanation. I mean earthquakes can happen anytime. Right? Therefore in your book it's not a miracle. But it is!
Boy, you'll have a lot of work in heaven. In heaven, Charismania is splattered all over the walls too. It'll take a billion years to scrub it off (if it comes off at all). Haha
Dude, seriously, why don't you publish your own Bible? One that has no miracles in it.
if saying im open to people being healed both naturally or supernaturally given the evidence, or that we should have the same criteria/threshhold of evidence regardless of what time period we live in is Charasmania then so be it.
Lets compare for a second. We would all agree that Jesus healed miraculously despite the accounts not coming from the person being healed, or Jesus, or not even a medical practitioner who was present at the time but rather by ordinary people/disciples who were present at the time. In some cases, because the book was not written by a disciple, its not even first hand account but they are writing what they have been told happened by someone who was there, and yet we all willingly accept them as miracles. The lepers, the woman with the issue of blood(who did not have it from birth), the blind man who was not totally healed first time but saw clearly after the second, the list goes on.
Now lets take a look at the example silver gave us. Documented case from the man himself, also from the medical fraternity with documents to prove it, also the people who prayed for him and others who were presesnt. Who was dead for 3 days and then raised to life again.
If you cant believe that was a miracle when you are willing to believe that those lesser miracles were infact miracles just from the mouth of witnesses with no medical training then there will be no convincing you and dispite what you might say you are not open to miracles happening today. Like i said earlier, at least be consistant and have the same criteria for miracles regardless of when they happened so we can have accurate consistant, comparable results. Yours are not comparable because you criteria changes depending on when/who was performing the miracle and whether you want to believe it was a miracle or not.
SILVER SAYS: Boy, you'll have a lot of work in heaven. In heaven, Charismania is splattered all over the walls too. It'll take a billion years to scrub it off (if it comes off at all). Haha
LD REPLY: Silver, you’re confused—AGAIN😃 You’re confusing heaven with hell. False teachers do that on a regular basis. False teachers who always promise charismaniac false miracles won’t make to heaven.
Matthew 7:22 Many will 👉👉say👈👈 to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and 👉perform many miracles?’👈
SILVER SAYS: Dude, seriously, why don't you publish your own Bible? One that has no miracles in it.
LD REPLIES: Dude, why don’t you either believe the REAL MIRACLES in the REAL Bible or publish your own false Bible choke full of the fake miracles, the kind you seem to like.
God is all powerful and sovereign so he can do whatever he wants whenever he wishes to do it and no human can change that.
Where we can limit is not what he can do but what he will do.. Many places in the bible God says..if you....then i will.. So he will act in those circumstances based on our actions. His acting based on us also applies to miracles and there are biblical examples of that.
The woman with the issue of blood. Jesus said your faith has made you whole. It was her belief/faith that if she even just touched the hem of his garment then she would be healed meant God moved on her behalf and healed her and Jesus told her that.
On the other hand when Jesus was in Nazareth the people said is this not the carpenter, son of Mary... and because of their attitude and lack of faith Jesus was not able to do many miracles there. God was still capable to do miracles, still sovereign to chose whether to or not to do them, but because of their lack of belief/faith God chose to restrict/limit what he otherwise may have done there based on the fact that he was doing it everywhere else where the people had more faith in who Christ was.
So i that way we can limit not what God can do, but what he will do, and not in every case but definatly in the cases where their faith/action is a factor in if God will heal or not.
