Jay Litwyn wrote:
"david" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Jim Muth wrote:
The next FOTD will be posted in 24 hours. Until then, take care, and if God is unchanging, as He would have to be if He is truly eternal, why has He apparently changed his mind about performing miracles such as we read about in the scriptures?
He still performs them, just that people have blinded themselves because they don't want to see, because a God who works miracles is not a God who is under our control.
Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Maybe one of God's jobs is determining what kind of miracles are rampant on Earth. Zero is not a natural number. Nothing in nature is absolutely zero. Nature abhors a vacuum. What is miraculous is how reliable these machines are when half of their being depends on reprezenting zero. You are using a miracle, Jim. If you went two millenia into the past and told people in the bible about these computers; how fast they are; how small they are, then they would say show me. Time travel is fiction. As far as I know, much of God's job is to determine what kind of miracles are feasible at any particular time.
A quote I'm probably misremembering from some book about computer developement. Supposedly from an IBM computer engineer, in the days of designing large, complex computer systems: "Of course I believe in miracles. Without them, computers wouldn't work at all!" -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community