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A 627-year-old 'blood miracle' failed to occur, heralding disaster for 2017
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I do not know about things like this. While there are certainly many things we do not yet understand as it relates to spiritual forces (good or evil) that exist around us... I get really leery when it comes to physical signs like this. Mainly, because we have proven throughout history to be such a weak people that we tend to turn these physical things into idols. That said.... there are a lot of people predicting bad things for the coming year...a lot. They might all be wrong... but they might all be right. I don't know.
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It does not happen and so they choose the disaster of the moment to claim it was because of no blood miracle.
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Steve Petersen
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Yeah, relics and miracles. What a bunch of crap. Every church in Germany has the bones of St. Matthew it seems.
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Their evidence is that the "miracle" didn't happen in 1939, the year WWII started and 1980 when 300 people died in an earthquake? There have been hundreds of thousands lost on multiple occasions during earthquakes, cyclones, and floods, not to mention millions lost in other wars and famines. Where was this "miracle" at warning us about those years?
Next year may or may not be disastrous for many, but this blood has no say in the matter.
Next year may or may not be disastrous for many, but this blood has no say in the matter.
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This is similar in nature to those who tried to blame hurricane Katrina on the lifestyle of certain Americans who happen to enjoy the intimate company of another member of the same sex, or blaming the Haitian earthquake on some the Haitian's religious customs.
Some people see signs in the sky, some see signs in the book, and some see signs in their toast.
Some people see signs in the sky, some see signs in the book, and some see signs in their toast.
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Steve Petersen
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I mean evidence that is not from a church source. From a source not likely to benefit from the 'miracle.'
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You want evidence of hundreds of thousands of people dying in disasters the "miracle" blood didn't predict?
List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia
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We are being led to believe that when the blood doesn't liquefy it is a portent of disaster. I am suggesting the the blood liquefying is a phony miracle.
If a disaster occurs when the blood doesn't liquefy, the church and others will try to convince us that the blood 'predicted' the disaster. Pilgrims will flock to the church (bringing their money with them.) The church will be a direct beneficiary of the purported miracle. It has ever been so.
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From the article
"Both the US and the UK have had a year of political turmoil, while a civil war in Syria has destroyed much of the city of Aleppo and resulted in indiscriminate killing."
Why did the 627 year old blood not predict the Syrian civil war? Why did it not predict the thousand of other lives lost in wars and disasters in all the other years it has liquefied since 1980? I am not in any way belittling the 300 lives lost in 1980 but there have been worse death tolls since then in a single tragedy that this blood apparently did not predict.
"Both the US and the UK have had a year of political turmoil, while a civil war in Syria has destroyed much of the city of Aleppo and resulted in indiscriminate killing."
Why did the 627 year old blood not predict the Syrian civil war? Why did it not predict the thousand of other lives lost in wars and disasters in all the other years it has liquefied since 1980? I am not in any way belittling the 300 lives lost in 1980 but there have been worse death tolls since then in a single tragedy that this blood apparently did not predict.
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I think the Turin Shroud is a miracle! It is the cloth that covered Our Lord! Science 'Cannot' explain how it was 'made'. For me, it was at the point of resurrection that Jesus, Our Lord, left his image, knowing that millions would see it and believe.
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When? You are referring to a test done quite some time ago on a section of the shroud that turned out to be cloth used in a medieval repair!! U need to keep up with the history of it my friend:
The Shroud of Turin Website - Home Page
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