Are There Miracles?

I will tell you one miracle I know of, but, kind of keep it to yourself...

Water is one of the few things which, when it freezes, suddenly expands 14%. This is why ice floats. Now, if water did not do this miraculous thing, then, all the water that freezes in the ocean would sink to the bottom, and eventually, there would not be enough water on the planet to sustain life.

Another miracle is the peculiar properties of carbon atoms, to allow long complex chains of organic compounds which makes life possible.

Actually, we are surrounded by all sorts of miracles... except, we don't call them miracles, because, we take them for granted and think of them as ordinary, common place, everyday...

Now, stop and think... Judas Iscariot was one of the apostles, so, he must have witnessed all sorts of miracles, and possibly even "performed" a few miracles himself. Yet, Judas' experience of the miraculous did not prevent him from committing suicide. Judas is one of the 7 or so suicides mentioned in the entire Bible.

The Prophet Job (in the Book of Job, in the Old Testaments Bible), was pretty depressed about all his misfortunes and maladies. Scripture tells us that Job basically curses the day he was conceived and the day he was born. I suppose Job was suicidal, in some sense. It does say that Job never cursed God.

Now, I am not certain there is any mention of Job "praying" in the modern sense. Job DOES make sacrifices daily, in the first chapter we are told, ... sacrifices on behalf of his children, on the chance that one of them might perhaps have SINNED UNAWARES. And at the end of the book of Job, God's voice, out of the whirlwind, orders job to sacrifice on behalf of his three friends. God says he will not accept offering directly from Bildad the Shuhite, and the others, because God is angry with them for having spoken incorrectly about God's nature.

In the ancient Greek Tragedies, we see the "unknown sin" plague someone like Oedipus.

By the time the Protestant Reformation comes along, we are mostly convinced that infants are sinless, and that the "age of reason" must be reached, of around 6 or 7, before we can understand how wretched we are, and be bonefide sinners. Infant baptism is continued by many, but the infant is barred from communion with the Eucharist on the grounds that they are not capable of making an "informed consent" before they reach the "age of reason".