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Miracles and Science - The How and the What
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The idea that "So was his technology "a shambles" or "streets ahead of our technology"?
indicates a contradiction is questionable.
Compared to pre- industrial times our technology is streets ahead. It's still a shambles- look how often it fails.
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Er.... I get you did not understand the question NOR the answer thereto. However, thanyou for your interest in this subject.
Be well and I wish you much interest and excitement in the future. Being bored is not healthy.
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Rosy is right. The true answer is simple, requires no divine intervention and tells you a lot more about Christian virtues than any miracle. Around that time most people headed off on a longish journey would carry a small stash of food and water with them, but in the crowd most people would keep this to themselves because there wasn't all that much and they might need it later. However once the young lad came forward with his small offering of all the food he had and was prepared to share it people started to share their food and once they'd all shared out the food they had there was plenty for a meal for everyone and some left over.
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Ashtari, correct me if I am wrong but quantum science tells us that reality is composed of multiple parallel universes which collapse into one when observed. If that is true then something called reality is constructed by a 'conscious' being. However, there is no reason why our reality cannot be presented by 'ANOTHER BEING' and that we are souls/spirits who are living out life in a virtual reality and then unlink from this virtual world at death.
If this reality is constructed by God, then there is no reason why strange, anomalous, improbable events can occur because the reality is altered for 'special' people such as prophets and their followers. Apart from this miracles like people surviving drop of 20,000 feet without a parachute are mere accidents. What do you think?
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Why bother messing around with loaves and fishes if youve got miraculous powers? He could snap his fingers and
hey presto... food is not needed anymore...
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Surely the point is why did the writers of the new testament feel it appropriate to include these rather ridiculous miracle stories in their account of the life of Jesus.
Were they writing for the gullible who would really believe these things or was it that some of the other things ascribed to him were so strange that (Virgin birth, surviving Crucifixion, physical accession etc) that he had to be depicted as as some strange wizard instead of a run of mill Jewish reformist preacher.
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The author, Carlo Suares, wrote a play entitled, "The Passion of Judas." I read this play about forty years ago and do not recall most of the details. One thing that sticks out in my memory was a discussion about miracles. There were several spectacular examples of miracles cited from the bible. One of the characters in the play tiring of this subject stated, "Miracle, that is a word that has no meaning. If a thing is made, it is because there is a means by which to make it. So if I have to cry miracle every time I do not understand how a thing is made, than I must cry miracle when I look at a drop of water, or a speck of dust." This is an approximate quotation that captures the spirit of the statement. In essences, we call "things" miracles because we do not understand the means by which they are made. If we were privy to such means, they would not be view as miracles. I offer this for your consideration. Thank you.
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lord tawny stapleford
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LORD Beaver is he a friend of yours.
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I always figured that when people saw that Jesus was willing to share everything he had with so many, some of the cheap assholes in the crowd probably felt embarassed and went home and brought back some more fish and bread. Which is almost like a miracle.
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It's a quite fishy subject this.
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Well... some of the "Miracles" are easy enough to explain.
Joseph, of course, was Mary's boyfriend at the time she got pregnant.
There have many young girls who have refused to admit to their parents how they got pregnant... or in some cases, refused to even tell their supposed boyfriends.
If only they had paternity tests 2000 years ago, I'm doubtful they would have had to ask for a DNA sample from GOD!
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