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He lays out the common objections to miracles and nicely refutes them.
1 posted on 06/07/2015 7:08:33 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

No, the most common problem is that people attribute miracles to humans instead of God and then humans pretend to elevate those humans to heaven as “Saints”


2 posted on 06/07/2015 7:24:48 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: DeweyCA

I think in the end though it still comes down to faith.and there’s been many a time when I blame God for troubles that I have gotten myself into and other times when I have not giving him praise for the good things that have happened to me


3 posted on 06/07/2015 7:36:49 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: DeweyCA

Although I think, as explained in the article, there is sufficient evidence in the historical record to support the Resurrection, the Shroud of Turin pretty much seals it. If modern science, with its electron microscopes and other sophisticated instruments still cannot determine that the Shroud has a human origin, it is either the most incredible and eleaborate fake in all of history surpassing even the ability of modern technology to reproduce it, or it truly is a remnant of the Resurrection.

Take your pick.


5 posted on 06/07/2015 8:11:12 PM PDT by HerrBlucher ("We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them." GK Chesterton)
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To: DeweyCA

http://celebrationcenter.org/a-hundred-million-miracles/


9 posted on 06/07/2015 8:24:01 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: DeweyCA

I find it odd that the devoutly faithful are always asking that we use natural law over positive law, but at the same time they want us to accept supernatural explanations, instead of natural explanations, for natural phenomenon.


13 posted on 06/07/2015 8:50:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: DeweyCA; RnMomof7

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”[a]

20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks[b] foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.


22 posted on 06/08/2015 6:07:39 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: DeweyCA

Oops, that’s from 1 Cor.


23 posted on 06/08/2015 6:09:06 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: DeweyCA

1) Experience shows that miracles do not occur

Quite the contrary — experience shows that miracles occur all around us.

2) Science shows that miracles are impossible!

Science shows nothing of the kind. In fact, quantum nonlocality is quite miraculous itself.

3) If we believe in one supernatural event we might as well believe in Santa and flying reindeer!

Well, not necessarily. See #1. We experience miracle healings or miracles in our relationships or our finances, or the everyday miracle of life, and we can se the evidence of these miracles clearly. That doesn’t mean we believe in what we know to be untrue. (We’re not “progressives”, after all.)

4) But surely miracles are so improbable, so extraordinary, that no amount of evidence could justify believing a miracle had occurred?

Improbable, perhaps. Extraordinary, maybe. Yet we have seen miracles and we know them to be true. Life itself is a miracle. Had so many factors (Planck’s Constant, for one) varied by infinitessimal amounts, life (at least as we know it) would not be possible. Yet we are here, having this discussion. Maybe miracles are not so extraordinary.

5) You can’t believe in miracles unless you already believe in God.

Believing in God helps — but it is not necessary. Just look around you.

6) There is no way to tell from the historical record if a miracle has occurred.

Is the testimony of those reporting the miracle not considered evidence?


43 posted on 06/09/2015 9:56:32 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: DeweyCA; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; bert

God does miracles. Angels use technology, and there are good angels and bad angels. Their technology is not confined to 4D spacetime so it appears miraculous.


50 posted on 06/10/2015 9:31:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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