Discussion Of The Feasibility Of Miracles And The Grounds For Christianity Existing Without Miracles

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Christ died. The Acts were a collection of
works made from two hundred to three hundred years after the crucifixion,
collected from different accounts. And then there are the letters, which were
written approximately four hundred and fifty years after the fact. They were
written by St. Paul, who was also a soldier for the Roman army and killed
hundreds of Christians, who believed and followed God, without the scriptures
that Hume talks about. From this, if you take away the scriptures, God's church
carries on and if you take the people from the church, "God's church" still
survives. The scriptures do not make people believe, they help people
understand. For this Hume is correct. He states that miracles help Christians
understand what they believe, but the belief and faith are deeper. Miracles and
parables helped people believe and understand what was to be our faith, but they
are not what faith is about. You can take any miracle, and faith will still
exist. Miracles are ...

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are not aimed to tell you that your religious beliefs are false,
instead he does not agree with the evidence given to support their convictions.
He says the only advantage to holding onto your religious beliefs or being able
to support them, is that you could give an unbeliever reason to share your
beliefs. If you think that there is rational evidence for your beliefs, then
you can go out and share them and get others to believe the same. Again,
Christianity holds without the miracles, for in the beginning, there were no
miracles that were talked about. Here is where a fideist is true. A fideist is
someone who is willing to stick to their religious beliefs without ...

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