Faith is not something science can explain such as muscle adaptation to exercise or neurological pathways to memory for a subject. There are no correlations between them
You always seem to have an answer for everything related to human suffering and God intervention.
You go trough this “Ohh it’s God testing you”
You go trough that" You prayed for it so God gave it to you"
I couldn’t imagine a God who would test someone’s faith by make them suffer. This is not the God I was worshiping.
You are stubborn. One of the worst traits a Christian should have. Go ahead and dodge the point im trying to make. I hope someone’s else’s has eyes to see that’s not a healthy way to faith
But the problem I have is with the reduction of reality to a mathematical structure. My disbelief in this is one of the reason for my belief in a spiritual aspect to reality.
I suppose some people use the word “dimension” with a non-mathematical and non-scientific meaning, but that will never sound right to me.
Someone said Christianity is more like devil worship.
And lots of people said religion is the opiate of the masses or a mental illness.
People say all kinds of stupid things.
At most, string theory, like the steady state universe, phlogiston theory, luminiferous aether, Lamark’s inheritance of acquired characteristics, Martian canals, spontaneous generation, hidden variable theory and many more is a failed scientific hypothesis. Because science tests hypotheses rather than just trying to prove them, these failed hypotheses are a natural part of science – PART of science, NOT religion.
In religion you don’t get a failed hypothesis, you just get a new religion.
This post is not about if the Bible talks about miracles, demons and the supernatural. We already are aware it does that.
This post is not really about Christian miracles.
This post is supposed to be focused on “ for those that believe supernatural miracles still exists ( implying that even from the “op “ perspective they existed at some point ) do you also believe in satanic or pagan magic. Is there people alive right now, that you’ve heard about and believe, is preforming supernatural things through the aid of demons/fallen angels.
So have you met a guy for example, that with his mind alone, can make candles suddenly catch on fire, or summon ghosts or levitate, or they can see auras and so on.
I’m looking specifically for those details. I don’t care about what you think is in the Bible, or what you think about Christian miracles and ect…. It’s been discussed several times. What’s ignored often is satanic magic. I’m curious who in here believes in satanic magic and what’s an example of something they’ve seen or heard about that they believe in.
You are blinded by self righteousness. You should have known better. The strength God provides trough trials is His good deed. He doesn’t cause them. Humans and nature do. Now if God is responsible for humans causing them is another discussion all together.
Your answers are always directed to defend God and the Bible like the evangelists do even if I didn’t blame or said anything bad about God. It’s your trigger point
You have missed everything I have said in those comments I’ve made. Food for thought that you could use. I won’t continue further
While I would never accept cessationism. Making such a separation between Biblical times and the present is entirely equivalent in my mind with separating the Bible from reality itself. Might as well believe that the Lord of the Rings is an historical account. Remember that I was not raised Christian with some assumption that the Bible must be believed. Therefore I must set some criterion for deciding whether the Bible is a work of fictional fantasy or not.
Therefore if the Bible is reality and not fantasy then I must believe all the gifts of the apostles DO exist today. Which means they never did consist of supernatural magical powers. Rather they are a part of the very real subjective and spiritual aspect of our existence. Cessationism and saying that this spiritual aspect to reality has gone away is the same as saying that God is dead or left the world. Thus it is easier for me to choose atheism and believe there never was a God than to accept this cessationist version Christianity.
In reality anyone can respond. Inwas just trying to prevent all the comments from those who believe that angels and demons are just metaphors for human nature and trying to draw the attention to those I’ve discussed miracles with before. As mentioned somewhere in the thread, I was also curious because I’ve noticed with others who believe in things like “
Evolutionary creationism “ will often share experiences or accounts of miracles through the Holy Spirit but often they are vague and hesitant with satanic powers. But with most young earth creationist, I’ve noticed they have equal amounts of stories, if not more, leaning towards the satanic panic stuff.
Like most in here probably won’t say “ if you handle a tarot deck you’ll end up having demonic problems “ but many in YEC style forums or chats will say yeah and have a story that’s related to it.