when the bible refers to things appearing out of thin air like with the feeding of the multitude, did they spawn without making any noise or movement like a gmod prop or did some sort of process happen where they formed via air-liquid like in atomic heart, like did it load from top to bottom, did it appear when nobody was looking, did small mineral-like veins appear, did little squares slowly bring them into existence like in transformers? I mean god didn't need to do anything in particular hes, you know, god.But say if a modern person had to make a movie where these things happen, wich would seem less pretentious?Picture unrelated
>>18538966You wouldn't be able to perceive it happening. Only that it happened. Like when Jesus appears after his resurrection and disciples do not recognize him, until an instant, a moment, and suddenly he is recognizable.
>>18538974Like in superluminal where you look at a thing and at first it looks like its just a combination of things that just so happened to align in that perspective but then you move around and it turns out it is actually real
>>18538978If you had* to depict it, like "in a movie," then yeah, maybe.
It's like this OP.
>>18538988Use this gif to switch back and forth.
>>18538988>>18538993So like this but without the pixels
>>18538966There is no way of knowing, we are told the miracle happened but nothing about the mechanism of the miracle.
>>18538966it was always there but god gaslighted you into thinking it was notalternatively, he distracts you with a sleight of hand and releases the prop from his secret pocket
>>18538978>>18538988>>18538995That seems very provincial and used-car-salesmaney.
>>18539339>provincialCan anything good come from Nazareth?
>>18538966>when the bible refers to things appearing out of thin air like with the feeding of the multitudeThe bible just glosses over the realtiy.Jesus was demonstrating to the people, that he was giving everything he had to the crowd and thereby acting as a "good" example.No food was magicked up. It was simply others especially the wealthy, following along with his example and giving what they had.Some probably went and bought food from local villages, and brought it to the gathering.This is likely where the idea for communism comes from.
>>18538966In the story of the oil and meal appearing:It would be insulting to insenuate anything of process you mentioned because you are opting for what the 9 lepers opted for in their unbelief and needing to check if Jesus’ miracle really happened. So they had to run to the high priest who would have told them they were healed instantly. Whereas the 10th leper already believed, so he didn’t have to go to the high priest. He got to remain with Jesus while they all left back to the temple.So in the case of unbelievers who go to Jesus to be healed, but they lack in their belief that he really healed them, there is space or room for placing these kinds of miracles with special FX, but it isn’t as blessed because of needing that. Aka the Bible explicitly tells you it is more blessed if you have not seen. Than to have seen. So God actually directly answers this question, biblically in the kjv, and so you know those stories about angels who visit you and suddenly you have a whole feast for thanksgiving and you are a widowed mother with children and there is no explanation to who that was and where they came from? Like the shop in the never ending story and he goes back and the shop is gone and there is no evidence that it ever happened or existed? God says that is more blessed if you believed and received, than if you sought for the evidence.To a young person, they might be tempted to want to seek the long route, but even to young people with a pure heart they can tell that it is true.Because a good deed is good even when it is against the rules of the world’s laws and reality.So we can know that God cares for people even in communist countries where it might seem that people are born in slavery conditions.
Like the woman named Corrie Ten Boom who went into Hitler’s Nazi prisons and witnessed about Jesus Christ in there and by a miracle she was let out by an error with no explanation.It is good she was released and to write about her miracle release as a testament to the existence of God. But she isn’t seeking the explanation to where the error came from. It was just simply blessed to receive her freedom as a miracle. In her position I would definitely agree.In my own experiences, I experience God’s directional distractions from others all of the time. Sometimes I notice the devil, too. But other times it is perfectly placed for Godly living for all of us.
>>18538966>But say if a modern person had to make a movie where these things happen, wich would seem less pretentious?I think the least silly way to portray it would be not to show the food appearing. E.g. Jesus reaches into his bag to pull out each loaf and he just keeps pulling them out as if the bag isn't depleted.
>>18538966The authors who wrote this story where not even thinking of this nor were the illiterate goys they where telling it too.
