Pastor Mark Driscoll: Can miracles still happen? | Pastor Mark Driscoll

Miracles deliver God’s people. Sometimes, miracles deliver God’s people physically. We see this in the days of Moses where he parts the Red Sea. So that they could escape the soldiers who were following them from the Kingdom of Egypt. Sometimes, God miraculously delivers people emotionally. Some of you have had trauma, and deep hurt, brokenness, and pain, and God the Holy Spirit can do a miracle. He can heal you from the inside out with inner healing. Sometimes, God heals a broken body. You’re injured. You’re sick. You’re dying. And God restores your health. Sometimes, people, they’ve been through so much. This world is so just difficult for human beings to just endure. That mentally you get broken and confused or anxious or depressed. God can heal that too.

Pastor Mark Driscoll, “Can miracles still happen? | Pastor Mark Driscoll” (2023)

Short answer: No.

That’s why Christians die of all sorts of things similarly to other groups of people. It’s less about the belief and more about dealing with the world as the natural world.

The styling is much the same. It is oratory, almost as beautiful language use — by which I mean clean and symmetric — as Wolfgang Smith’s, but it’s only oratory. He doesn’t provide any coherent, fluent argument about why the world is the way it is and why it should be the way it is.

He proposes that which even those worse than him propose, which is the prosperity gospel preachers and miracle preachers. Namely, other performers who argue for diabetics to throw their diabetes medication on the stage, for those with heart complications to rid themselves of their medications.

There is never a mention of getting proper mental health care. It’s to focus on the purported supernatural powers of a hypothetical God. What is always deemed as a renewal, I think anyone calmly looking at these individuals would proclaim nothing supernatural took place.

Even if the hypothesis were to be entertained, the real idea is that the God of the world could heal the sick, but doesn’t simply because they do not believe in him. Isn’t this an unjust and cruel God by most metrics?

“I let this suffering continue in the world, potentially eternally beyond. Unless, you repent, sinner.” But nay! Some Christians will proclaim perversely. Only a just and good God would punish the unrepentant. Indeed, that’s love!

Do you see a problem with this, too?