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Signs and Miracles Term Paper
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Signs and Miracles
Are signs and miracles present today?
One cannot demand signs and miracles of the world and of God. Such manifestations of faith occur spontaneously, of course. The Acts of the Apostles 2:22 says that Christ's manifestation of signs and miracles proved him a man of God. Yet signs and miracles are ever-present in the world today, in extraordinary as well as ordinary manifestations. To dwell in a God-created world is a miracle. The daily acts of life, whether suspended by God in their natural laws, as in a miracle, or sustained by God in His created natural laws are both signs of his goodness and a requirement of faith.
In other words, Christ used miracles and signs of wonder upon the earth, not as acts of magic, but of showing the ability of the divine to be made flesh, of being able to make the world, however fallen, still a good place in its physical as well as its spiritual essence. For instance, in Matthew 8:23-27 Christ walked upon the water and calmed a rough sea, not as a demonstration of his supernatural ability like a magician, but of his ability to give comfort to those on unstable footing, such as the water. He could suspend natural law, and also live by its goodness.
The goodness of the created world has always been demonstrated through miraculous and natural acts, that is according to the natural as well as the extraordinary will of God. Consider how, simply by the word of God, the creation of the entire world and its physical laws and entities were established. (Hebrews 11:3). As noted in Psalms, God merely spoke, and the world was manifested in all of its physical glories. (Psalms. 33:9). Because God created the world, the world is a good place. However, individuals upon the earth do not always appreciate this intrinsic goodness, even those individuals of apparent faith, like the Apostle Thomas. Also, those lacking in faith at times doubt God's hand in the world, because they take the goodness of God's world for granted. It is very easy to become absorbed in one's own daily affairs and activities, and to shirk the manifest wonders of the world, because of one's own daily obsessions.
But even though the types of divine actions in the form of the world's creation or of Christ changing water into wine, do not seem to be constantly and continuously duplicated today does not mean that they do not occur. Every time an individual rises…
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