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Quote by: rebelnyell I would like to start off saying that I am not a Catholic. Well from my stand point the flashier attempts to deny false Gods and the Evil of the Devil hit home much more successful then the miracle of the Holy Spirit on a massive scale. With the Holy Spirit it seems that it is much easier for the Devil to take control and twist things unlike when God could make himself present like he did in the Old Testament times to stop or halt these problems. I think that this has caused more problems than it has actually solved making it easier for the Devil to enter ones world through various ways that weren't possible before God sent the Holy Spirit. Now it is much easier to mistake the voice of God (the Holy Spirit) as the Devil's trickery. Now a days there isn't as much of a fine line between this good and evil that can help you determine which is which. It is harder and harder to know who to actually trust and to figure out which is the voice of God, the Devil, or just a person losing sanity conversing with nothing at all.

I'm not Catholic either.

If you look at it, the Holy Spirit has reached far more people than one of those OT miracles. The Word is changing people of every tribe, gender, and locale. Many of those OT miracles, amazing as they were, didn't even convince the people they were directly shown to. And often, the miracle was forgotten within a generation. The Hebrews forgot far too easily that God did numerous huge miracles to get them out of Egypt. When they made it to the Promised Land, they forgot that God fed them manna from the sky. The prophets did all sorts of things and they were stoned to death.

Quote by: Numbers 14:11 The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?

Quote by: Matthew 16:1-4 The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied, "When evening comes, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,' and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away.