Letters to the Editor
“Why No Spectacular Miracles Today?”
I disagree with the author of this manuscript because it describes God as a failure in all the miracles He performed. There is one thing that God cannot do. I believe God will never fail.
The article “Why No Spectacular Miracles Today?” by David J. Sandland was in no way dismissing the miracles God performed as failures. What Mr. Sandland was trying to convey was that in early Bible times it was necessary to have great miracles so that God would be known and seen as God by the people. But the greatest miracle, Mr. Sandland pointed out, is the miracle of conversion.
As the article states, “The miracles we read about in the Bible were examples of the power and love of God that are important to our understanding. But now that we have the biblical record, there is not the need to continually repeat all the different types of miracles.”
The reference to miracles not being good for us is not a statement of any failure on God’s part, but of man’s failures. It is always man’s own carnal mind that creates failure, not God. Mr. Sandland was speaking of man’s ego and the tendency to take credit away from God and the misuse that could occur through the use of such miracles.
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