One Christian Thought

You'll notice that there is no question mark ending the title, because the original post already had potential proof of miracles. It is  The Possibility of Miracles?  Then there's the old  " The Matter of an All-Loving God... and EVIL . " "It's always easy to scream 'anti-supernatural bias' when someone does not think that the miracles of one's own tradition can be historically established," (1) Bart Ehrman said in the beginning of his two chapter bit on the resurrection, explained in my extensive argument for Jesus rising from the dead. It was so true of my thinking at one point. Now I've come to soften my thoughts toward intellectually dismissing miracles, because it can be defended and it would be rude to assume someone is so biased, and especially try to intellectually shame them.   William Lane Craig, in his debate with Ehrman, used "methodological atheism." (2) I find this very fitting. It's isn't philosophical nat...

It really makes me sad that the believability of miracles is even a subject in and of itself which Christians have to respond to. The major reason I'm against intellectually dismissing the supernatural is at the end of this post, because first I need to explain why I think doing so is just downright unreasonable. I can do that, so I appreciate this opportunity God has given me to support Him using the material He supplied by working through other people, even though in my opinion philosophical naturalism would be funny if no one believed it.  That's right -- philosophical naturalism. The enemy of religious faith. It's the belief that the world is governed by, and only by , natural law, no matter what. There are two arguments against miracles dealt with in this post. One is that they cannot happen because they are an occurrence which does not accord with the completely absolute laws of nature. Sometimes scientists can view miraculous claims as an insult to their profession b...