Miracles

Question 1

What is a miracle?

Answer 1

An extraordinary and welcome event which is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to divine agency.

Question 2

What does divine intervention mean?

Answer 2

God did it

Question 3

Why would God perform miracles.

Answer 3

Because God is:
-benevolent (all loving)
-omnipotent (all powerfull)
-transcendent (not limited by natural or scientific laws)
-the creator
-omniscient (all seeing and all knowing)
-or any other attribute of god which can be explained

Question 4

What’s are fixed laws of nature?

Answer 4

Laws that are infallible (cannot be changed) such as gravity, energy not being able to be destroyed or created, death and time.

Question 5

How may a non- religious person disprove miracles.

Answer 5

-Fixed laws of nature
-physchological explanations ( power of expectation, placebo effect)
-spontaneous remission
-brain and body interaction

Question 6

What is spontaneous remission?

Answer 6

When someone becomes healed from a disease without any reasoning or explanation.

Question 7

What is a scriptural miracle?

Answer 7

A miracle that can be found in a holy book such as the Bible or Quran.

Question 8

What is a non-scriptural miracle?

Answer 8

A miracle not found in a holy book.

Question 9

examples of a scriptural miracles

Answer 9

• feeling of the five thousand
  -Jesus raising the 12 year old girl
  -calming of the storm
  -Jesus’ virgin birth

Question 10

Examples of non-scriptural miracles

Answer 10

• Dunkirk
• Annabelle Beam

Question 11

Miracles in nature

Answer 11

Miracles that affect things such as the weather or ocean.
These miracles prove God and Jesus have power over nature.