Quote Originally Posted by Midnite View Post
Simply put do you believe that God still performs miracles today?
Ok. I must speak up now. I believe that this thread is waaaaaaaaaaaaay off base from where it originally began. The question was "do you believe that God still performs miracles?" Not "do you believe that God exists".

The purpose of the (historic if you will) biblical examples of miracles was to introduce a new message of a newly established (new testament) religion to have an impact on non-believers--and also to set the stage, via envy of His notoriety, for non-believers to ultimately crucify His son. There was a strong purpose for miracles--then, but now that the religion is established, there is no purpose for miracles today. The word is out--the choice to believe is now ours (freedom of choice and all that).

I do believe that God has a plan for everything, including all of us (everything happens for a reason and all of that), and He does intervene with a divine purpose of guiding events according to His plan. I don't quite think that this should be considered a miracle; however.

So, to answer the original question: No, I don't believe that God still performs miracles today.

BTW...I am certain that my lineage of religious leaders would not agree with me!!!!!!!!!