Thanks for the response. I used the Grand Canyon as I had just read a link on that issue in another topic.
Yes, my observations agree that at least “new revelations” are very scarce. However, I think the problem is more to do with the delayed reaction time in determining if somebody has revealed something that makes a critical difference. Only after a person has died and an extended period of evaluation has passed is the church able to make a case for a genuine “saint” like the Catholics do - in process – but not in volume!. I feel their “quality control” cycle on selecting “Saints” has more to do with church politics than real sainthood–or filling the coffers for building cathedrals and such!
As for miracle here is a link to the incident I told in another post: Continuing the discussion from Can science discover supernatural activity even though science might not call it that? That miracle had a significant effect on that young man, his family, and the community (over several years).
I believe miracles do happen, if not quite as often as most people wish to believe, yet most are not believed because even as Christian’s we are infected with the material/scientific mindset of our culture. It takes “miraculous evidence to support a miraculous event” (I can’t find who said that, but I remember it --Thomas Aquinas?). Besides, the purpose of a miracle has to be significant for the occasion (as God sees it, not to our eyes).
I also note that significant miracles tend to happen in non-western cultures. I personally know missionaries from Africa, India, and Asia who have witness, and had miracles happen when they laid hands on people. I personally had a miracle happen (which I will describe in private if requested)
I do believe a time will come, when the pressure is on the church (the true church) during the tribulation (I believe in the pre-wrath rapture re: Marv Rosenthal Zion’s Fire) we will indeed be turning stones into bread and raising people from the dead.
To the Topic: It requires an open mind free from chronological or intellectual snobbery to recognize – or be the conduit for revelations or the miraculous. IMHO Only the humble and needy need apply!
Ray