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Miracles happening in today's world? It is all a matter of faith.
Title: Miracles happening in today's world? It is all a matter of faith.
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
Details: Words: 1170 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Miracles happening in today's world? It is all a matter of faith.
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 …showed first 75 words of 1170 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1170 total…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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