Modern miracles: Introduction

Reading Time: < 1 minute Influential French scientist and mathematician Blaise Pascal, his niece, Marguerite Perrier, suffered from a severe and long-term fistula in her eye that let out a repulsive odor. At a monastery on March 24, 1656, she was completely healed in a dramatic way, with even bone deterioration vanishing immediately. There was Read more…

Rebuttal of repeatable miracles

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Atheist scientist Jerry Coyne said “massive, well-documented, and either replicated or independently corroborated evidence from multiple and reliable sources” would be needed to have confidence in a miracle.  Though such a statement can be responded to easily, and, rather logically. Craig Keener says in the book Case For Miracles Read more…

Why are some not healed?

Reading Time: < 1 minute Healings are given by the mercy of God, He’s not obliged to do them. We see Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9 was not healed of his “thorn in the flesh” whatever that refers to. I know it sounds harsh but in some way it is better. For those to think Read more…

Defining a miracle

Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s the best way to define the miraculous? Philosophers and theologians have offered various descriptions.  Aquinas’ defined miracles as ‘those things done by divine power apart from the order usually followed in things’. This view suggests that God can do what he wants with his creation. Aquinas has identified 3 Read more…