Miracles happening in today's world? It is all a matter of faith.
Date Submitted: 11/29/2004 12:51:29
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1158 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1158 words)
Do you believe in miracles?
Do miracles really exist these days? Yet once upon a time when Christ was here on earth they did. Living people experienced these phenomenon's it is all a matter of faith. A miracle is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (Hume, 123n). Theologians of the Old & New Testament religions consider only God-willed contravention …
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…believe in the absolute truth of the creations of their own passions and heated imaginations. Does this mean that miracles cannot occur? Of course not it means, however, that when a miracle is reported the probability will always be greater that the person doing the reporting is mistaken, deluded or a fraud than that the miracle really occurred. To believe in a miracle, as Hume said, is not an act of reason but of faith.
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