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To: Darteaus94025

How so? This doesn’t fit any actual definition of a miracle, since it is a completely probable, even predictable event, that is easily explained without any resort to the supernatural.

Sure, it could be divine intervention, theoretically, but since it is indistinguishable from a non-miraculous event, it is pointless to call it a miracle. At that point, you can just call getting a second Snickers bar out of the vending machine a “miracle”.


27 posted on 08/07/2013 3:49:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
How so? This doesn’t fit any actual definition of a miracle, since it is a completely probable, even predictable event, that is easily explained without any resort to the supernatural.

What's apparently miraculous is the "priest's" mysterious arrival and disappearance, and his actions at the scene.

30 posted on 08/07/2013 4:29:12 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Boogieman

Don’t conflate possibility with probability. Also, don’t ignore what the firemen said about hearing “someone” say, etc. and no one saw him arrive or depart.

Obviously, I am not saying this is a miracle, and the witnesses description is entirely consistent with a miracle.

Like I said...


33 posted on 08/07/2013 5:04:29 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Phony President)
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