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Jan 18, 2018 · It looks like miracles are ruled out if, like Hume, one doesn’t believe in God, or if, as with Spinoza, one believes that an unchangeable God exists and that he created the world. Whether a person believes in God or not, it doesn’t look like a belief in miracles can be supported.
Apr 7, 2021 · The most fundamental reason that people don’t believe the miracles in the Bible is because they already believe something else, namely, that miracles are impossible. In other words, they have a worldview that rules out the supernatural from the outset.
Mar 22, 2021 · According to the Pew Research Center, as many as 79 percent of Americans believe in miracles—events that lie outside natural law and any explanation by science.
- What is a miracle? The term usually translated as “miracle” in the New Testament means an “act of power,” typically functioning as a sign that invites people’s attention for God’s purposes.
- What is the purpose of a miracle? Miracles draw attention to God, his kingdom, and his Son. God often acts in ways that appear to us less dramatic, but he shows “acts of power” as signs pointing to his future kingdom and/or Jesus’s identity.
- Are there examples of modern-day miracles such as the blind being healed? In 1959, macular degeneration, which is organic and medically incurable, made a young woman legally blind.
- Are there examples of modern-day raising the dead? It’s hard to narrow this down. I usually like to mention the raising of my sister-in-law after three hours without breathing, but that was not under clinically observable conditions.
Sep 7, 2019 · Lewis defined a miracle as “an interference with Nature by supernatural power.” 5 The most significant point about this definition is that it requires the existence of a power beyond nature that can decide to act within nature.
Jun 15, 2019 · Professor Ian H. Hutchinson of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published the book, Can A Scientist Believe In Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science.
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May 27, 2014 · Jesus performed healings, exorcisms, and “nature” miracles (such as turning water into wine and multiplying food) as a sign that God’s kingdom had come to earth.
