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9 Cards in this Set
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What is a miracle
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-a lucky event
-a coincidence -a sign pointing to God -Event that breaks natural laws -Event to reveal God |
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Humes reasons for discounting miracles
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1. Uneducated witnesses
- unreliable word of mouth can become exaggerated - uneducated does not mean gullible they still have common sense. |
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Humes reasons for discounting miracles
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2. sympathetic witness
- They want something to be from God and be a miracle - Must have proof in order to believe the miracle |
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Humes reasons for discounting miracles
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3. Miracles are observed by ignorant nations
- uneducated nations accept miracles - Nowadays we are sceptical and so don't accept miracles |
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Humes reasons for discounting miracles
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4. Religions all accept miracles and base truth on them but cannot all be right.
- why should we trust any if only one is right - maybe there is one God but different religions have different cultures. |
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Prices argument
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When a lottery winner is announced we believe it without question with odds of one million to one so why do we not accept a miracle from a stranger being true.
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Case of the church choir gas main explosion
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15 choir members became 10 minutes late to practice for subtle reasons and in that 10 minutes the church exploded . Such a coincidence can only be explained as a miracle from God.
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Maurice Wiles argument against miracles
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God doesn't intervene in the world
- God would not undermine his own natural laws - omnibenevolent God wouldn't perform trivial miracles whilst major events were ignored - God acts randomly so not worthy of worship. - Prayer is meaningful as it is a connection to God |
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Bultmann (demythologising the bible)
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Trivial miracles should be taken out and the teachings should be left
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