lpetrich

malookiemaloo:
I think, strictly speaking, what you are talking about is Lazarus style resusitations not Christ like resurrections.

That's right.

It is very interesting because people associate God with miracles but in reality there are very few. They occurred generally in clusters. Some at the creation, the exodus then Jesus and afterwards and that's about it.

Which makes me wonder what malookiemaloo thinks of miracles outside of the Bible. Does he think that Irenaeus had described some real miracles? Or that medieval saints had worked numerous miracles? Or that any miracles of other religions are real ones?

Does he believe that there are Islamic doodlings in tomatoes and eggplants and clouds and on the sides of fish?

Does he believe that statues of Ganesha can drink milk?

Does he believe that Buddha statues can glow and that Buddhist monasteries can emit multicolored beams of light?

Having said that there are people today who will testify to a miracle, but don't know about a dead person coming to life again.

So "true" miracles still happen?

lpetrich

I thought some more about this, and I've concluded that it is nothing more than the shyness effect in action.

It's as if the Xtian God had decided to run off and hide after revealing the Bible.

malookiemaloo

Hi!

I think that people-especially religious ones-can get too hung up on miracles. (What is a miracle anyway? How would you define it?)

The Bible teaches 'by faith not by sight'. In any event, 'miracles' or, perhaps more accurately, signs and wonders are not the sole prerogative of Christians. Did not Pharoah's astrologers mimic Moses's first few signs?

If someone works a 'miracle' outside of the Bible, who am I to try and rubbish it? I don't need outward signs to prove that it's all true.


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