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Six Poor Reasons for Rejecting the Miraculous
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Posted on 06/07/2015 7:08:33 PM PDT by DeweyCA

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Same goes for things which are 1 in 10120
61 posted on 06/11/2015 10:13:37 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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I don't just believe in miracles, I rely on them.

AMEN!!!!

Me, too!!!

Dear brother 'pipe has an uncanny knack for grasping the truth of miracles....

62 posted on 06/12/2015 10:18:18 AM PDT by betty boop (Science deserves all the love we can give it, but that love should not be blind. — NR)
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Actual miraculous material is in our hands when we hold our bibles. I'm not speaking of its remarkable preservation, publication, and dissemination, although we can certainly find the miraculous in that. I'm speaking of the prophetic passages contained therein that have no explanation other than One who stands outside time directing the events of our existence toward events that shout out the existence of God.

Professor Peter Stoner wrote in "Science Speaks" of the probability of just the 7 major prophecies of the Messiah coming to pass by mere happenstance. Professor Stoner was an expert in probability and statistics. He said it was 1 chance out of 1017 that the fulfillment of those prophecies was accidental. He then described that number. He said it was the same as filling Texas 3 feet deep with silver dollars, painting one of them blue, stiring them all about, and then having a blindfolded person given the chance to bend over and pick up a silver dollar. For it to be the blue silver dollar...that would be one chance out of 1017 silver dollars. In short it was not accidental. We hold the miraculous in our hands.

63 posted on 06/12/2015 10:57:57 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Don’t remember exactly where or when I read that glaring concept that treats miracles as a commoditys..

BUT; smell of the truth of it.. penetrated my “SPIRIT” like a bolt of lightning..
A sweet lingering after taste with a chocolaty finish if I remember correctly..

MY “FETUS” whom I choose to call my sister is a seven month
“premmie” which is now in her sixties as a fugitive from abortion... is a definite “Miracle”... almost a six month premmie..

AND some wonder if a FETUS is an actual BABY?....
A MIRACLE would be ME NOT calling them MORONS....


64 posted on 06/12/2015 11:10:47 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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The “church” for a coupla centuries had no bibles..
Not that 99% of them could even read.. anyway...
OR needed to... “they” had no books..

The question is......... WHAT DID THEY HAVE?..
They had something... what was it.?..

A question as pertinent today as “THEN”..

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65 posted on 06/12/2015 11:27:17 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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The link isn’t working for me. Can you describe it?


66 posted on 06/12/2015 11:31:06 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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67 posted on 06/12/2015 11:39:24 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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So true, Sir! That the God Who Creates is so close as to speak through His written Word is indeed miraculous, and probably why the ones rejecting God are so determined to paint the Bible as flawed, mistranslated, transcription error filled, etc. To accept it as God’s Word would admit that He is able to have it just as He wants it for this Age.


68 posted on 06/12/2015 2:57:18 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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Same with me, dear brother in Christ.

Praise God!!!

69 posted on 06/12/2015 8:52:22 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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Beautifully and truly said, dear brother in Christ!


70 posted on 06/12/2015 8:55:44 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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LOLOL!


71 posted on 06/12/2015 8:56:08 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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