7. Miracles: Modern people and miracles
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- 7. Miracles: Modern people and miracles
- Tillich - contingency miracles
- Miracles are signs pointing to God, so they must be interpreted to find the significance.
- The understanding of the miracle is more important than the existence of the miracle
- Criticisms
- Where do we draw the line? Any lack of knowledge may lead a person to interpret something as a miracle, where it may bee purely scientific (e.g. Aurora Borealis)
- Events are only miraculous insofar as we interpret them to be, so mundane events can be seen to be miraculous
- Response
- A true miracle reveals something about the nature of God
- The person knows what has been revealed to them
- Criticism
- There is no way of verifying if someone is being genuine
- Response
- It only matters to the individual if they believe it is real or not, as it is them interpreting the significance
- Just because it may be unverifiable, it does not mean that it is not a genuine revelation
- Tillich - contingency miracles
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