Like I've mentioned before many times, faith is a funny thing. It's easy for those who have seen Jesus to command all of us to have faith. The apostles and prophets hopefully understand this because after all, if you've seen Jesus and we haven't than telling us to simply "have faith" can be a bit difficult to comprehend.
This passage says that it is by faith that miracles are wrought and it insinuates that the reason that there are no miracles today is because of unbelief, and unbelief is all in vain. I agree, and it's fairly obvious. If you have no faith than you won't believe in miracles. Will miracles still happen? It's largely about perception. If you think everything is a miracle I'm going to tell you right now that you are wrong. A baby being born isn't a miracle, in fact we know quite well how babies are born. It's blessing and a wonderful thing-but it's not a miracle.
We live in an increasingly secular world, and believing that miracles happen today makes you seem backwards in some way. Do I think they happen? Yup. Do I think that people are too quick to use them as an excuse for whenever something good happens? 100%.
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