tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14547775.post112296288686325382..comments2023-08-31T06:35:46.670-07:00Comments on Yapdates: A Spiritual Odyssey: Do Miracles Happen?Conrade Yap, (Dr)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12256834680709396244noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14547775.post-1123029608837220522005-08-02T17:40:00.000-07:002005-08-02T17:40:00.000-07:00Three quick comments: - whether miracles are possi...Three quick comments: <BR/>- whether miracles are possible is entirely a matter of presuppositions, whether I allow it in my ideology or presupposition. If I don't, I never interpret anything as miraclous and relegate it to the category called, "luck", or "fate", or "chance", which is largely undefined. As Jesus puts it, "Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." To this, Pilate answers unbelievingly, "What is truth?". The importance of belief in miracles as a pre-supposition, or faith, is well summarised by Augustine and Anslem "If you never believe, you will never understand", or "I believe, in order to understand." <BR/><BR/>- Secondly, while the emphasis that all things are 'miraclous' is biblical, for all things declare the glory of God, this affirmation may fall into a Schleiermacher notion of miraclous, which reduces biblical miracles to the status of ordinary things. For Schleiermacher, something is miraclous only according to one's mental interpretation. So, the resurrection is miraclous because it is one's interpretation of Jesus' dead and his impact on subsequent history. It need not require a physical historical literal resurrection<BR/><BR/>- Which brings us to the third point: There are miracles that break into history by the 'dynamis' of God, to demonstrate that He is with Us: the blind can see, the deaf can hear, the dead are raised and the people hear of the Gospel of the Kingdo of God, as Isaiah (the Prophet, :-) ) prophesised. These remain qualitatively different.<BR/><BR/>So, let us rejoice and be exceeedingly glad, that our Lord is risen. <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>-PAK WAHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480322480951918624noreply@blogger.com