“The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good” (Psalm 14:1).
Stephen Charnock: “In Paul’s account, the testimony of the creatures was without contradiction. God Himself justifies this way of proceeding by his own example, and remits Job to the consideration of the creatures, to spell out something of His divine perfections. And this is so convincing an argument of the existence of God, that God never vouchsafed [granted; allowed] any miracle, or put forth any act of omnipotency, besides what was evident in the creatures, for the satisfaction of the curiosity of any atheist or the evincing [proving] of his being, as he hath done for the evidencing those truths which were not written in the book of nature, or for the restoring a decayed worship, or the protection or deliverance of his people. Those miracles in publishing the gospel, indeed, did demonstrate the existence of some supreme power; but they were not seals designedly affixed for that, but for the confirmation of that truth, which was above the ken [mental perception] of purblind [nearly blind] reason, and purely the birth of divine revelation. Yet what proves the truth of any spiritual doctrine, proves also in that act the existence of the Divine Author of it. The revelation always implies a revealer, and that which manifests it to be a revelation, manifests also the supreme Revealer of it. By the same light the sun manifests other things to us, it also manifests itself. But what miracles could rationally be supposed to work upon an atheist, who is not drawn to a sense of the truth proclaimed aloud by so many wonders of the creation? Let us now proceed to the demonstration of the atheists folly…”
Clay Miller: God does not need to “do a miracle” or “give a sign” to prove His existence. He exists. And He has given all of us sufficient evidence in creation itself, in nature itself to know this. Miracles are not needed to validate God’s existence. Miracles were used to protect or get the attention of people to doctrine God was presenting, especially in Jesus’ ministry and the apostles’ ministries. Those miracles did indeed prove there was a “Miracle Worker”…someone supernatural. But the miracles in and of themselves are not for convincing atheists. Richard Dawkins is an atheist hero. He works in science and evolution and sees evidence of God everywhere and refuses to acknowledge His existence. A miracle would do no good…He cannot allow himself to presuppose a supernatural explanation for anything no matter how “miraculous”. He would rather believe possible aliens created our world (???) than God, he just does not want that “alien” to be the God of the Bible. The only miracle that can save such people is the inner working regenerating miracle of the Holy Spirit. And if God acts out that one, even Dawkins can be converted.
