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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Well it's all well and good that you pointed out your opinion, but that hardly settles the question. You can't deny that an awful lot of Christians still buy into this miracle stuff. As for the "reveal himself to a certain person" thing, again that's your opinion, but it is a pretty common story among believers that "God revealed himself to me".

Yes I know.

I call it a bunch of hogwash though.

Again, according to you. Plenty of people call themselves Christian and believe full well in divine intervention.

Yeah, like Pat Robertson. Or was it Jerry Falwell who said God spoke to him about something?

I think it was Robertson.

Joseph Smith, also said God spoke to him....starting the Mormon belief.

Jim Jones as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

And I am curious about the use of the word "anymore". When do you think the change happened? It is very inconsistent. Why the changing of the rules? You don't change perfection.

Hebrews 1:1-2, "God, who at various times and in variousways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;"

Points out pretty clearly that in OT times, God spoke to his followers through prophets, and according to the Bible and OT literature, directly with the individual. During the NT, he spoke to the people through Jesus Christ.

Well Jesus Christ isn't alive these days, so the only way to hear what he had to say is to read the Bible.

Paul tells us in II Timothy 3:16, 17, “all scripture was given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, completely furnished unto all good works.” If we have in Scripture the instruction for all good works, what else can we possibly need?

There are even people who will say that the Holy Spirit will speak to them. Yet they fail to realize that...

In Ephesians 6:17, Paul tells us to take “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God...”

Again, going towards the belief that the Bible is the only way that God communicates with his followers.

Talking about those who believe God shows them signs or speaks to them in dreams and visions. First, there is no biblical support for believers having dreams and visions from God. God tell us in the Bible He speaks to us through His word. Second, dreams and visions generally has a detrimental and confusing effect in the person's life. Their vision sets a precedent and they remain unsound doctrinally in some areas.

I've read the book and if people were to follow those rules to the letter they'd end up in the slammer.

To clarify, I was not referring to the Old Testament laws, rather to the way a Christian should live.

Living like that shouldn't get you thrown into the slammer.

And again, according to you. You know as well as I do that people pray for God to interfere in their life and believe he does.

I know they believe that.

Fair enough. But did they happen in biblical times?

According to the Bible, and what it says many miracles happened.

As to the interpretation of those miracles, I'm not sure.

I hate this.

Sounds like I'm preaching.