Justinian wrote:My apologies, but if God didn't want this imppression to come across, then he shouldn't have promised to answer any prayer in his book. If the amputee arguement doesn't weaken God, it does weaken the Bible. Every disease God is supposed to have cured could have gotten better on its own, or been healed by a doctor, and every great event in history he is supposed to have influenced can be explained as the work of man, deligent or otherwise. God can only explain what science has failed to. I will admit that is quite a lot. The obvious lack of transitional fossils is definetly food for thought, as is the possibility for fast-fossilization, recently prooven as real. Yet the number of things that once required God to explain (at least functionwise) has dropped, and continues to, so I don't feel presumptious in believing the trend will continue.
God did not promise he would respond to an atheist who is out to test Him. And God has set limits on prayers He will answer or even hear. Jesus promised that those with faith as small as a mustard seed could move mountains. So the obvious questions are what constitutes faith and how do we develop faith?
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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Faith does not come from pulling a couple verses out of the Bible and then testing God with those verses.
Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
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You see Justinian, what keeps God silent is the intent of the hearts of men and the fact men have decided that God is unnecessary baggage in a world that worships science as their new god.