Wiles on miracles
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- Created on: 23-05-18 16:59
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- Wiles
- Wiles' argument against miracles
- Anti-realist - God does not act in the world through miracles
- Agrees with Tillich - miracles are sign events
- The only miracle was that of creation
- God's creation was good there - no need for further intervention
- God put those laws in place which meant that miraculous events would be rare as otherwise humans could not rely on those laws
- Interventionist God would seem to act immorally
- Implies selective God who chooses to help some and not others - miracles happen very infrequently
- Many reported miracles seem trivial - turning water into wine / walking on water - but there was no miraculous deliverance from holocaust
- That would be a God not worthy of worship
- Problem of evil unsolvable
- Jesus' miracles
- Biblical accounts of miracles are wrongly interpreted if seen as factual. They are myths - in order to express something about God
- Jesus' refusal to provide an overwhelmingly convincing miracle illustrates how mistake it is to use miracles as proof of God's power
- The strength of tradition suggests that he was a powerful healer
- Biblical accounts of miracles are wrongly interpreted if seen as factual. They are myths - in order to express something about God
- Anti-realist - God does not act in the world through miracles
- The significance of Wiles' views in relation to religious belief
- Against this, Wiles claimed that God was at work in the world, actively sustaining it (though not through miraculous intervention
- In his writings Wiles gives a more holistic view of God's activity as opposed to a view of Aquinas, who saw miracles as part of God's continual work in nature, sustaining the world.
- Wile's claim that the act of creation was the sole miracle has led to claims that he was a deist rather than a theist
- Wiles' views make the challenges of Hume irrelevant
- Wiles' argument against miracles
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