There are arguments on both sides. My attitude toward miracles/gifts is thus:
I’ve witness some being ‘slain in the spirit’ and to be honest I was skeptical.
I heard ‘speaking in tongues and it produced the same response.
That being said, I tend to believe that modern day Christians have stopped believing in them and are lukewarm when compared with the early church. They’ve bought the lie because they haven’t the faith. If we were to go into church’s today and speak against the hypocrisy and sin we would be arrested or thrown out. Many are as was Thomas, I won’t believe it until I see it. But what did Christ say in Matthew? ‘Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.’
Here in Mark.
‘And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.’
Someone who does not believe in miracles has little chance of seeing one. Yet, what is prayer for if we don’t believe.
I’ve had answer to prayer on many occasions. Faith is an interesting phenomenon, You can’t fake it. You can’t drum it up if you don’t have it, but when it happens it opens a fresh perspective in our reality.
I’ve witness some being ‘slain in the spirit’ and to be honest I was skeptical.
I heard ‘speaking in tongues and it produced the same response.
That being said, I tend to believe that modern day Christians have stopped believing in them and are lukewarm when compared with the early church. They’ve bought the lie because they haven’t the faith. If we were to go into church’s today and speak against the hypocrisy and sin we would be arrested or thrown out. Many are as was Thomas, I won’t believe it until I see it. But what did Christ say in Matthew? ‘Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.’
Here in Mark.
‘And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.’
Someone who does not believe in miracles has little chance of seeing one. Yet, what is prayer for if we don’t believe.
I’ve had answer to prayer on many occasions. Faith is an interesting phenomenon, You can’t fake it. You can’t drum it up if you don’t have it, but when it happens it opens a fresh perspective in our reality.
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