John, I’m right there with you. It’s probably not evident from the post, but I’m a person who recognizes and acknowledges that God is real, active, and still intervenes in history. In this particular post, I’m deliberately neutral, but if you check out my “main” blog (link below), you’ll see that I’m plain-spoken about my faith in God, and about being a servant of Jesus Christ. In this article I used secular language (“magic,” “sorcery”) on purpose, to get Christians to think a little outside of their usual framework. But I attribute all of these events to an active God — the one you’d be familiar with from the Old and New Testaments. In most of the 35 examples, God moved because of the faith of one or more people: he either did something that they would then recognize as being God’s doing, or he did something as a result of their prior expression of faith. One notable exception is found in my example #12, the medium of Endor (sometimes called the witch of Endor), where it’s unlikely that the woman worshiped the God of Abraham.

Last comment: you wrote, “People think those ‘miracles’ are of old and do not happen in our ‘enlightened times.’” I agree. It’s interesting that conservative Christians generally dislike me because many of my articles point out their hypocrisy, and liberal Christians generally dislike me because I do teach that God is active today, and communicates with us directly by his indwelling Holy Spirit, and not just intellectually and indirectly through the study of his Word.

If you’re interested, my main blog, with hundreds of articles, can be found at paxterrarum.com/blog.

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