If God is like Monet (and they certainly both have big beards), then the Lord appears to be in the equivalent of a water-lilly phase at the moment i.e. you really have to squint to make out his miracles amongst the murk.
It seems strange to me that he used to be really enthsiastic about doing miracles. You couldn't stop him, like a boring person at a party. When Jesus was kicking around, he'd make the lame walk, the blind see, and the tone-deaf play the ukelele. Now? Nada.
My question to believer and non-believer alike is this: why has he gone so... subtle?
Now, you might argue that this is all about faith, and that if we are made to believe through our eyes etc... then that totally goes against what it is that God is trying to achieve by making people have faith. Fine. But, if this is the case why did he ever do miracles at all?
A few things come from this. For instance - were all those people who where converted to Christianity by seeing a loaf and a carp feed thousands of people (and if I'd seen it, I probably would have been converted too, credulous type that I am) somehow denied 'proper' faith like subsequent generations of Christians have enjoyed? After all, their belief was only born from the evidence of their own eyes, not from some purer, deeper, less tangible faith.
I guess this topic could lean over into the actual desirability of faith as we understand it. I'm easy really, as long as people can help me to address this problem. Although I've couched it in slightly facetious terms, its a serious question.
Any takers? I don't really mind where it goes, but would Faith and Belief be appropriate?
Clearly, this topic assumes that God exists, and that the contents of the Old and New Testement are totally kosher, so to speak, so its going to be more rewarding if we just take these things for granted.
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