Miracles
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- Created on: 02-05-16 17:36
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- Miracles
- Definition 1: violation of natrual law or and exception
- Aquinas
- Three types of miracles
- Events which nature could never do e.g the sun and moon stand still
- Events nature can do but not this order e.g rasing the dead
- Events thast could usually happen but without the principles of nsature being used e.g instantaneous healing
- Three types of ways God interacts with his creation
- Sustaining activity- the creation of the laws of nature
- Primary activity- God's dircet intevention
- Secondary activity- God workng through people
- Primary form of activity- natrual laws broken
- Three types of miracles
- Theism and Diesm
- Theists believe God interacts with his creation
- Deisists believe God has only created and no longer interacts with his creation
- God is a Iintevetionist God
- Arguemnts For a inteventionist God
- Three types of ways God interacts with his creation
- Sustaining activity- the creation of the laws of nature
- Primary activity- God's dircet intevention
- Secondary activity- God workng through people
- Shows God answers our prayers
- Three types of ways God interacts with his creation
- Arguments Against a inteventionist God
- Mauriee Wiles
- A arbitary God with a changeable naturw
- Arbitrariness of God's intevention shows God is a unfair God
- A God chooses to feed 5,000 people yet does nothing to stop famine in sudan or a God that allows inncocent civilians to be killed in hiroshima yet intervines in a trivial emergency by turning water into wine.
- Arbitrariness of God's intevention shows God is a unfair God
- The problem of Evil
- inconsistent triad
- God is either omnipotent or not
- God is either omnibenevolent or not
- inconsistent triad
- living in uncertainty, Gods inteventions makes the world uncertain never knowing when a natrual law will be broken
- God only intervened to perform one miracle which was the craetion of the world
- A arbitary God with a changeable naturw
- Mauriee Wiles
- Theists believe God interacts with his creation
- Arguemnts For a inteventionist God
- Humes
- " Transgression of the laws of nature by a particular Diety or interposition of a invisible Agent"
- Argues against violation miracles
- Two Arguemnts
- Laws of nature
- 1: Human experinces tell us that miracles proabaly do not happen
- " the wise man proportions his beliefs to the evidence"
- Miracles are "contrary to custom and experience"
- 1: Human experinces tell us that miracles proabaly do not happen
- Quality of testimonies
- No "sufficient number" of witnesses with a good "reputation"
- so called "miracles" produce "agreeable emotion" (people like to gossip)
- Claims of miracles come from "barbarous nations" (uneducated)
- miracles appear in rivial religions and discredit eachother (religious pluralism)
- Laws of nature
- Natrualistic Explanation according to scientist
- God of the Gaps thinking
- Scientific challenges
- Definition 1: violation of natrual law or and exception
- Aquinas
- Three types of miracles
- Events which nature could never do e.g the sun and moon stand still
- Events nature can do but not this order e.g rasing the dead
- Events thast could usually happen but without the principles of nsature being used e.g instantaneous healing
- Primary form of activity- natrual laws broken
- Three types of miracles
- Theism and Diesm
- Deisists believe God has only created and no longer interacts with his creation
- God is a Iintevetionist God
- Arguemnts For a inteventionist God
- Shows God answers our prayers
- Arguments Against a inteventionist God
- Mauriee Wiles
- A arbitary God with a changeable naturw
- Arbitrariness of God's intevention shows God is a unfair God
- A God chooses to feed 5,000 people yet does nothing to stop famine in sudan or a God that allows inncocent civilians to be killed in hiroshima yet intervines in a trivial emergency by turning water into wine.
- Arbitrariness of God's intevention shows God is a unfair God
- The problem of Evil
- inconsistent triad
- God is either omnipotent or not
- God is either omnibenevolent or not
- inconsistent triad
- living in uncertainty, Gods inteventions makes the world uncertain never knowing when a natrual law will be broken
- God only intervened to perform one miracle which was the craetion of the world
- A arbitary God with a changeable naturw
- Mauriee Wiles
- Arguemnts For a inteventionist God
- Humes
- " Transgression of the laws of nature by a particular Diety or interposition of a invisible Agent"
- Argues against violation miracles
- Two Arguemnts
- Laws of nature
- 1: Human experinces tell us that miracles proabaly do not happen
- " the wise man proportions his beliefs to the evidence"
- Miracles are "contrary to custom and experience"
- 1: Human experinces tell us that miracles proabaly do not happen
- Quality of testimonies
- No "sufficient number" of witnesses with a good "reputation"
- so called "miracles" produce "agreeable emotion" (people like to gossip)
- Claims of miracles come from "barbarous nations" (uneducated)
- miracles appear in rivial religions and discredit eachother (religious pluralism)
- Laws of nature
- Natrualistic Explanation according to scientist
- God of the Gaps thinking
- Scientific challenges
- Placebo affect- people attending faith healers feel better beacuse they expect to.
- Psychological triggers such as music, tone of voice create positve atmosphere causing chain reactions on people
- " Better to convince 1,000 rather than 100"
- Two Arguemnts
- An empiricist (looks at things that human senses detect)
- Swineburn
- Natrual Laws are not fixed but expressions of probablity
- Not violations but exceptions to the laws/counter instances
- We can tell miracles take place with three types of evidence left behind
- Memory, Witness and physical traces
- what is the "sufficient number" of witnesses according to hume
- principle of credulity and testimony
- argument against pluralism is that perhaps it was one God who performed the different miracles
- Not all religious people believe in miracles
- theistic belivers claim God can intervene in his own creation because he is the creator
- reductionism- Humans are complex with spiritual nature. God can work in a less obvious way through natrual explanations
- Analogy- Flour+Eggs+Milk= A cake
- important thing is how a miracle is interpreted
- violation miracles teach that we should show love and care for others as jesus did. it is God's will
- Aquinas
- Definition 1: violation of natrual law or and exception
- Placebo affect- people attending faith healers feel better beacuse they expect to.
- Psychological triggers such as music, tone of voice create positve atmosphere causing chain reactions on people
- " Better to convince 1,000 rather than 100"
- Two Arguemnts
- An empiricist (looks at things that human senses detect)
- Swineburn
- Natrual Laws are not fixed but expressions of probablity
- Not violations but exceptions to the laws/counter instances
- We can tell miracles take place with three types of evidence left behind
- Memory, Witness and physical traces
- what is the "sufficient number" of witnesses according to hume
- principle of credulity and testimony
- argument against pluralism is that perhaps it was one God who performed the different miracles
- Not all religious people believe in miracles
- theistic belivers claim God can intervene in his own creation because he is the creator
- reductionism- Humans are complex with spiritual nature. God can work in a less obvious way through natrual explanations
- Analogy- Flour+Eggs+Milk= A cake
- important thing is how a miracle is interpreted
- violation miracles teach that we should show love and care for others as jesus did. it is God's will
- Aquinas
- Defintion 2: An event of religious significance
- Coincidence miracles- A coincidence that holds religious significance
- Example one- Child and the toy car, mother witnesses a on coming train approaching her son who is stuck in the tracks yet the train stops in time and the mother says its a miracle
- Example two- church choir who usually are never late turn up to church suprisingly late avoiding a major gas explosion in the church, the choir claim it to be a miracle
- its Ambigiuous whether God intervened in a coincidence miracle or not
- God intervenes in a less obvious way through things rather than directly e.g when a person goes into cardiac arrest the doctors and the machine can bring them back to life
- Secondary activity
- Most important feature is how the person interprets the event and whether it holds religious significance
- No violation of the natural laws have to be broken
- Miracles only exist beacuse thats how they are interpreted
- Argument for
- Atheists accuse religious people of seeing what they want to see "illusions" and claim coincidence miracles are too subjective
- Religious arguments
- This definition is not in line with the more traditional understandings of miracles e.g miracles as direct intevention from God in which broke natrual laws
- Subjective approach on whether a miracle has happened, easily open to manipulation
- most supporters of miracles would argue that for a miracle to be claimed to have happened there should be evidence
- Argument against-
- Its a sign to which a person can choose to believe that it is a event taken place with the prescence of God
- Miracles can be true to one person and not true to another it dpends on realism and anti- realism
- Argument for
- Sign miracles- Events seen as revelations of God's intevention with his people.
- Example- Jesus healing the blind man revealing he is the messiah
- key features, Tells us something about the nature of God, it's a beneficial event and lastly is an exception to the laws of nature
- Religious opinions and ideas about how God interacts with his creation
- God is a loving and caring God
- God is omniprence ( activily involved and present)
- Miracles are revealtions of God allowing us to choose to believe
- Theistic ideology
- Religious opinions and ideas about how God interacts with his creation
- Coincidence miracles- A coincidence that holds religious significance
- Definition 1: violation of natrual law or and exception
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