Can anyone provide a source to a well documented instance of a miracle?
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Hi musicman30mm,Can anyone provide a source to a well documented instance of a miracle?
Or correcting the date we think it happened, to something that aligns better with historical records.I watched the enire exedous documentary. It began with changing the date the exedous was supposed to happen
It wasn't specualtion, they showed how each and every miracle could have occurred via a natural phenominon, all of which have happened at least once during our history.then specualted how it could have occured by natural causes, through a series of highly unlikely and entirely unverified events.
Of course it's going to reference the Bible, it's about the Exodus... -_-The only sources outside of the bible
Can you give examples of these?it documented were extremely obscure and highly subjective interpetations of ancient heirogryphics.
Why could God not use the very rules and systems He created to cause the plagues? It's miraculous because they all occurred within such short timeframes of each other and were prophesised by Moses beforehand.If anything it proved that it was possible for the Biblical account of the exedous to occur without divine intervention.
So this question is basically, "Can you show me God in a test-tube?", again.Are there any more modern documented cases of miricals, or scientific studies done to prove instances of divine intervention?
Ok.The reason I want modern examples is this:
Simply quoting an ancient text that proclaims that some events that happened thousands of years ago were the work of god leaves me wondering. I think, Why believe this and not greek mythology? After all, there is no more historical backing for one than the other. The greek myths describe many historical events in great detail, and always attribute them to acts of gods.
But that wasn't your question. Your question was about well documented miracles. As you say, isn't a miracle something that is naturally impossible unless there is divine intervention. Well, maybe. It depends on what you believe a miracle to be I suppose, either way it's a rigged question in that you want proof of the divine again.Why is the Bible more credible?
That is quite interesting. I'd like to read some of the actual notes on the scientific study. The fact remains, we have to take the legend at face value to believe that the heart and blood actually spontaneously transubstantiated. Otherwise it could very well just be a myth supported by a tradition of misguided monks.
Why do the religiouse make acceptions to logic?
I could understand if you had read the Bible and said, Now this is a great moral code. I'm going to live my life by these practices because they make sense to me. and left it at that.
The place where it gets nonsensical is when you begin attaching mythology. Why does a moral guidebook have to include a creation story?
Why can't you just take the moral and say, okay, I love the morality in the Bible, and believe it to be absolute truth,
but the mythology was obviously written at a time just after classical Rome. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I'm not saying God is a crutch, but I think he's a gap filler.
Humans have a need to know everything, so they fill in that gap beyond the limits of their own capabilities to precieve reality with God. Ancient tribal cultures did it with the forces of nature and topography. Ptolomy did it at the edges of his universal model, as did Gallileo. Descartes put god at the limits of his ability to philosophically reason through reality and existence. Newton placed him in the sector of Physics now occupied by General Relativity. Science has been pushing god's turf back.
There's not much room for the Biblical mythology anymore. It's becoming debunked. The point is, this doesn't have to soften its impact on your life. If anything, it should be wonderful for you not to have to depend on a single text for everything.
If people were going to write a mythological text to fill the gaps as you say, I think they would do a far better job of making it more acceptable to us, because ultimately Christianity is not the sort of message people are going to want to hear. Bhuddism is, but not Christianity. I mean, who would form a picture of the afterlife that has no sex in it?!I could understand if you had read the Bible and said, Now this is a great moral code. I'm going to live my life by these practices because they make sense to me. and left it at that. The place where it gets nonsensical is when you begin attaching mythology. Why does a moral guidebook have to include a creation story? Why can't you just take the moral and say, okay, I love the morality in the Bible, and believe it to be absolute truth, but the mythology was obviously written at a time just after classical Rome. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I'm not saying God is a crutch, but I think he's a gap filler. Humans have a need to know everything, so they fill in that gap beyond the limits of their own capabilities to precieve reality with God. Ancient tribal cultures did it with the forces of nature and topography. Ptolomy did it at the edges of his universal model, as did Gallileo. Descartes put god at the limits of his ability to philosophically reason through reality and existence. Newton placed him in the sector of Physics now occupied by General Relativity. Science has been pushing god's turf back. There's not much room for the Biblical mythology anymore. It's becoming debunked. The point is, this doesn't have to soften its impact on your life. If anything, it should be wonderful for you not to have to depend on a single text for everything.