Are Big Miracles Performed by Modern-Day Prophets?

[Jojo Bags]

20 minutes ago, clbent04 said:

Ok, I get your point now. Maybe we are losing faith. Maybe we need more members to have the level of faith that this complete nobody you knew had. I know I would be inspired to have an increased level of faith upon seeing someone perform a miracle. Maybe we can increase our own faith and perform the very miracle that will inspire someone else to increase their faith. What's to stop any of us from performing miracles? Maybe then we could help elevate the level of faith of the Saints in our own circles

This has the possibility of treading on forbidden ground, specifically, in asking for signs.  In his book, Faith Precedes the Miracle, Spencer W. Kimball talked extensively about how faith must come before any miracle; it is the mandatory prerequisite requirement for calling down the powers of Heaven.  When visiting the Nephites, the resurrected Savior said to his Nephite disciples, "...So great faith have I never seen among all the Jews; wherefore I could not show unto them so great miracles, because of their unbelief."
(3 Nephi 19:35)  What stops miracles is unbelief, usually as a result of believing, however ignorantly or unknowingly, in the wisdom and learning of the world.  Modern medical science outright laughs at the idea that evil spirits cause illness; for that matter so do many LDS.  To science and its adherents, those who believe in these things are uneducated, backward dolts without the sense God gave to a gnat, when actually, it's quite the opposite.  Faith is a higher law, a celestial law, and an all-too-high number of LDS are not living up to this law.  No amount of signs will change that.

 

[clbent04]

36 minutes ago, Jojo Bags said:

Faith is a higher law, a celestial law, and an all-too-high number of LDS are not living up to this law.  No amount of signs will change that.

I was writing my last post more to the tune of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror. "If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and then make a change" weeeeee heeeeee!

Edited August 26, 2017 by clbent04