False. According to a Christian worldview, God is all-powerful (Genesis 49:25), all-knowing (Psalm 139:1-6), omni-present (Psalm 139:7-10), and able to comfort you in all your troubles, so you can comfort others with the comfort you receive from God (2 Corinthians 1:4). God hears everyone’s prayers (1 John 5:14) and has the power to do more than we all ask or imagine according to God’s will and purpose for us (Ephesians 3:20). See Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelberg, The Miracles Answer Book, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019), 52-54.
False. First, God may not answer your prayers because your sins and rebellion against God have cut off your relationship with God. (Isaiah 59:2). If you confess your sins, God will forgive you and purify you from your spiritual brokenness (1 John 1:9). Second, you have to actually pray and make your requests known to God with motives consistent with God’s will and purpose (Philippians 4:6; James 4:2-3). Third, even if you confess your sins to God and pray to God with the proper motives, you still must respect God’s wisdom regarding your prayers. God may not give you what you ask for because God knows what is best for you and is willing to disappoint you to better discipline and guide you. See Strobel and Mittelberg, The Miracles Answer Book, 55-57.
False. Although God knows what you will freely do before you do it and God knows how God will respond, God’s foreknowledge does not preclude your real freedom. God knows what you need before you pray to him (Matthew 6:8). So God wants you to pray to God to develop your relationship with God. See Strobel and Mittelberg, The Miracles Answer Book, 71-73.
It is true that there are a lot of fake reported miracles. But that does not mean all reported miracles are fake. Miracle claims should be investigated cautiously. Eye witness accounts should be tested by considering the witness’ character, motives, biases, and opportunity to observe the miracle. Corroboration, documentation, and other convincing evidence should be sought wherever possible. As God tells us through the Bible: “Examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21 NASB). See Strobel and Mittelberg, The Miracles Answer Book, 74-76.
This objection relates to what is classically referred to as the “hiddenness of God.” Why doesn’t God show himself more clearly so that more people will believe in him? First, God wants to give you enough evidence to believe in God, but only if you will sincerely seek God “with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). As Jesus said, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it (the spiritual door to a relationship with God) will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7). Second, God has already made himself plain to you, because he made his invisible qualities of his eternal power and divine nature clearly perceivable in God’s creation of the world and life and has written his moral law on your conscience and heart. So you are without excuse (Romans 1:19-20, 2:15). Third, God does not make his presence so clear that it overwhelms you and removes your ability freely resist God and “suppress the truth” about the existence of God. (Romans 1:18). In other words, God wants you to love him, but love can never be forced. God gives you enough information to see that God is good and worthy of your trust and worship, but not so much information that will force you to worship God against your will. See Strobel and Mittelberg, The Miracles Answer Book, 130-132.