{"id":1729,"date":"2012-07-23T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2012-07-25T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T20:44:20","slug":"god-does-not-do-miracles-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/god-does-not-do-miracles-today\/","title":{"rendered":"God Does Not Do Miracles Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a member of my Sunday School class asked me if I believed if God still does miracles today. I don&#8217;t think he was satisfied with my answer.<\/p>\n<p>R.C. Sproul has recently written a very good (and brief) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/does-rcsproul-believe-miracles\/\">response to the same question<\/a> and I would recommend it to you.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now of course when people ask me, do I believe in miracles, they &#8216;re asking one question and I&#8217;m answering a different one. If they &#8216;re saying to me, &#8220;Do you believe that God is still working in the world supernaturally?&#8221; Of course I do. &#8220;Do you believe that God answers prayers?&#8221; Of course I do. &#8220;Do you believe that God heals people in response to prayer?&#8221; Of course I do. All miracles are supernatural, but not all supernatural acts are miracles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also gives one reason why this matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago a member of my Sunday School class asked me if I believed if God still does miracles today. I don&#8217;t think he was satisfied with my answer. R.C. Sproul has recently written a very good (and brief) response to the same question and I would recommend it to you. Now of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/god-does-not-do-miracles-today\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}