Miracles.
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- Created on: 28-06-17 19:50
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- Miracles
- The concept / meaning of a miracle
- It must break the laws of nature
- Events done by God, which nature could never do
- Events done by God, which nature could do, but not in that order
- Events done by God, which nature can do, but God does without the use of natural laws (e.g time scale)
- Events done by God, which nature could do, but not in that order
- It must break the laws of nature
- Challenges to the existence of miracles
- God's intervention
- Present in every action: how can intervention take place?
- Interventionist (occasional): morality of God questioned
- Realist: Miracles only for faith believers
- We may not understand God
- World single act of God, miracles undermine laws of nature
- God can't intervene; transendent
- Compromises free will, key component for POE arguments
- God sustains world but never acts in it
- Anti-realist: Miracles help only believers understand God, can be symbolic
- God's intervention
- God's interaction in the world
- Secondary actions where God works indirectly through human choices to bring about his will
- God acting through human beings at particular times to bring about specific events
- History being gradual unfolding of God's plan
- Primary actions where God's specific interventions change events
- God's sustaining activity (earth's continued dependence upon God)
- The concept / meaning of a miracle
- Challenges to the existence of miracles
- God's intervention
- Present in every action: how can intervention take place?
- Interventionist (occasional): morality of God questioned
- Realist: Miracles only for faith believers
- We may not understand God
- World single act of God, miracles undermine laws of nature
- God can't intervene; transendent
- Compromises free will, key component for POE arguments
- God sustains world but never acts in it
- Anti-realist: Miracles help only believers understand God, can be symbolic
- God's intervention
- Hume
- Miracle must outweigh all evidence against the natural law
- Religious exclusivism - conflicting miracles
- God may appear in form that theist can understand
- Unreliable witnesses
- Background of witness (learning, education)
- Historical evidence can be used: our apparent memories, testimony of others, physical traces left
- Tendency for belief in wonder or proof of God
- Science based on these three types of evidence
- Subjective (degree level?)
- Historical evidence can be used: our apparent memories, testimony of others, physical traces left
- Tendency for belief in wonder or proof of God
- Background of witness (learning, education)
- Whole point of miracle is that it is an exception to the rule - could never establish miracle
- Miracle must outweigh all evidence against the natural law
- Time not same for God, doesn't harm him.
- Doesn't undermine omnipotence - logically impossible to know future
- Signs: miracles only for religious significance
- What is the significance supposed to be? Different faiths
- Miracles as events of religious significance
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