Droopy wrote:Chap wrote:In the past our normal senses were considered quite sufficient to perceive evidence of divine activity.
Glancing through the Bible at the kind of evidence for his existence that Droopy's deity used to produce reveals some really impressively obvious physical phenomena: we might, for instance, see the Red Sea parting to let us walk dryshod to the other shore, or food for a whole nation miraculously appearing on the ground every morning in the desert, or death of all our enemy's firstborn, or big pots of water turning into wine, or lunch for 5,000 people produced from a few scraps, or a dead man becoming alive and walking around again. That's quite a lot of really easy to detect evidence that Something Is Going On.
How come the entity we are supposed to be believing in suddenly got so much harder to detect in action?
Did he?
[Fixed to include the full context of my question.]
Maybe you see obviously miraculous physical events like the ones I named all the time in your ward. Somehow, however, they don't seem to get into the papers (or did your deity tick the 'no publicity' box?).
The current absence of the kind of large-scale obvious miracles easily perceptible by physical means that the deity formerly known as Yahweh reportedly used to do can reasonably be described as his getting harder to detect in action.