[ATLian]

>BTW, whats the main reason for God performing miracles and
>signs/wonders? (I mean the answer in the Bible ....and not
>what some people do as advertisement)


To show us he's the real deal.

BTW TM, I have a swali about god and miracles. When the plagues were beginning in Egypt, many of the miracles god did thru Moses were replicated by the Pharaohs guys through their gods. When god (thru Moses) turned his rod into a snake, the Pharaoh's sorcerers (thru their gods) also turned their rods into snakes. When Moses brought about frogs, the Pharaoh's guys also made frogs.

When Moses turned ALL the water in Egypt into blood, and the sorcerers also turned water into blood. BTW, this is another bible discrepancy since if Moses had already turned ALL the water in Egypt into blood, where did the water the sorcerers turned into blood come from? But I digress ... the Egyptian's gods were finally defeated when they couldn't create lice.

That has always puzzled me, does that mean that there were other gods who just were not as powerful as god? Yaani they could only do miracles from A - G unlike god who can do from A - Z? I'd be interested in your explanation. And since the devil isn't mentioned anywhere in the story, let's leave him out of the equation...