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Miss Hepburn

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Hi epostle1,
Oh, I dunno about telling all the 'miracles' that I have experienced...too many...some too personal to be appreciated by others...some simply unbelievable, shocking,
(even I am stunned thinking about many...oh my) so why chance doubt from anyone...
but, really there just aren't any miracles...it's just God doing wonderful, joyous things for us, that seem impossible to our limited silly minds.
Oh my, the gratitude...*hand to heart emoji*


Ha, I love this from above: my version.. influences of the Supernatural upon the lower spheres of nature.
That's all...no miracles, per se...but...blessings, indeed!
 
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The Jesuits have a time machine located in the deepest vaults of the Vatican. It was built in the 16th century and is such a closely guarded secret that even I don't know about it. I'l submit a request to the Order of St. Ignora, a Jesuit splinter group who does the time machine bookings. I've written to them before but didn't get an answer back. Regardless, I will ask for a Jesuit electroencephalogram technician to go back to the first century and test Paul's brainwaves at the time he went to the third heaven.
That's how the Jesuits started Islam, ya know!:rolleyes:
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lol. That is really cute, but again Scripture must be warped in order to even entertain the idea, see. Paul himself could not agree. Did not.
I believe such things on faith
I know the wolves will rush in as soon as I leave, not sparing the flock
But do I know it for a fact? No. Woulds't thou discredit my faith because of it?
have to think about this one; the subject has been changed, i was making a point about Quoting, and here you are asking me about my opinion of your faith, but the Q seems genuine enough on the surface. My initial reaction is that you are discrediting yourself when you misquote, with a reminder that as far as you are concerned that is God's Word, right? I would say i am judging your works here, not your faith.
 
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As it stands now, he's a hypocrite, and his story and witness stinks just as badly as it ever did.
be great to see him saying this on vid or something, in order to get his...well, word on the matter, huh. Repentant 15 year olds, sound fam to anyone? i dunno, you might be right. If the retraction is on video that would tell us more. Prolly even have to consider the possibility that he is lying now to hurt dad or something.
 
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Only human Souls are in Heaven Biblically, no dogs etc because they never had a Saviour, Jesus came to Save our Souls so we would have Life abundantly here on Earth and in Heaven.
Life abundantly means in fullness of the Holy Spirit.
We are to give hope of the Kingdom Come as an inheritance for our next generations so they would have the inheritance and the Blessing of God.

All this rapture stuff is just modern day childish trendy claptrap from the hippy movement type nonsense.

Jesus comes in his majesty, that's what coming in the Clouds truly means.
His majesty means in the Holy Spirit.
The Bible informs use that he does not come back as a man, if you see him walking or one tells you he seen him he is not Biblically correct.
Jesus Christ is the Holy Spirit.
Paul was taken up to the 3rd Heaven, that was the doing of the Holy Spirit.
We can see that Nathaniel being a true Israelite said by Jesus Christ in fact, that he would see what ?
 

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"to the lobsters in the galley, the sinking of the Titanic was a miracle."
Well, and there you have said a profound sentence with many layers.

1. Is there even such a thing as good and bad; in Reality is there any duality at all...or is it just perspective.
God having all the perspective...the clearest perspective...and that's why it is so easy for us
not to judge anything...because we know nothing...from this teeny perspective.
Like an ant judging quantum physics.

From this teeny perspective we actually think or can be tricked to think
the chair we sit in is real...from an EM Microscope's view...it certainly is not!

Miracles? Just things we don't understand...walking on water, healing, multiplying the loaves?
Easy when you know the very Nature of Creation!

I'm gettin' there!! :)
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(Dogs need a savior? Hippies believed in the Rapture?) Sorry ..I digressed.
 
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i was even gonna say yesterday, after i read the 'Catholic classification of miracles' post, that miracles are just revelations in points of view
 
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be great to see him saying this on vid or something, in order to get his...well, word on the matter, huh. Repentant 15 year olds, sound fam to anyone? i dunno, you might be right. If the retraction is on video that would tell us more. Prolly even have to consider the possibility that he is lying now to hurt dad or something.

Or his family is working to hurt the publishing companies now because the deal they worked out in the beginning left them making little or no royalties in the long-term.
 
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Miss Hepburn said:
but, really there just aren't any miracles...it's just God doing wonderful, joyous things for us, that seem impossible to our limited silly minds.
Oh my, the gratitude...*hand to heart emoji*

Awesomness. It's all a miracle to me.
*hand to heart emoji* <-- and we don't need the visual all the time as this puts it in my mind right away...although, would be nice to have a "laughing" emoji :D
 

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Paul was taken up to the 3rd Heaven, that was the doing of the Holy Spirit.
hope you understand Reg that we understand you are just meaning to opine here, but you are not stating them as opinions or beliefs, but as Absolute Truths.
So iow it becomes valid to ask you if you have a crystal ball, or are you consulting the spirits of the dead or something?
 

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BRACE YOURSELVES, I'M GOING TO GET CATHOLIC-IE.

The writer talks about his experience with atheists:

The Medical committee at Lourdes is totally independent of the Church. They use skeptics on the committees, the rules are geared to control for remission. They screen our remission. They are required to use only the best medical evidence, to consult the doctors of the patients and they cannot make decisions without obtaining the medical records of those doctors. They do examine the patients. It does have to be proven that the people were sick beforehand! They will only choose a case when they cannot find a naturalistic explanation.

I am not claiming that these cases "prove" the existence of God. But in each case there is enough to make the leap of faith, filling in the gap with a good extraordinary pile of evidence. Atheists are always asserting we need extraordinary evidence. This is evidence. What most atheists mean by that is a little game of raise the bar. I have played this game, met all their demands for documented miracles and they want more.

They keep raising the bar until it turns out they will not believe until you give them regeneration of severed limbs. I show where St. Anthony did that, well it's a legend. I show a miracle that beatified St. Teresa of Lessex, a man grew grew back new lungs over night, but now that's not good because it's a Mary devotional site. It doesn't matter that the case is documented by the best medical evidence of the day (1916). But that's not good enough because the site it's on is not a science site and the X-rays are not on the net.

Atheists will never be satisfied because they are not seeking truth, they are seeking to guard a paradigm. Be that as it may, the evidence for miracles at Lourdes is the finest I the world, and is valid and well documented with the best science has to offer to date. That makes it extraordinary. This furnishes a rational warrant for belief. Meaning, if one chooses to construe it as proof it is not irrational to take it as such. (in other words, people who accept miracles are not crazy)

Lourdes evidence is the best. The Saintmaking miracles use the same rules and virtually the same committee, they are very exacting and rigorous. But they are not as pressure free as the Lourdes committee. There is some good evidence from the Protestant world, but not much. Protestants never think about documenting miracles. I also include what I call "the anecdotal pile." I don't think those cases prove anything, they sources are bad and docs stink, but I include them for the purpose of showing how many people in this world experience amazing things they define as "miracle." Miracles are going on all the time, and they not often given attention, not reported and not believed.

http://doxa.ws/other/Miracles.html


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BRACE YOURSELVES, I'M GOING TO GET CATHOLIC-IE.

The writer talks about his experience with atheists:

The Medical committee at Lourdes is totally independent of the Church. They use skeptics on the committees, the rules are geared to control for remission. They screen our remission. They are required to use only the best medical evidence, to consult the doctors of the patients and they cannot make decisions without obtaining the medical records of those doctors. They do examine the patients. It does have to be proven that the people were sick beforehand! They will only choose a case when they cannot find a naturalistic explanation.

I am not claiming that these cases "prove" the existence of God. But in each case there is enough to make the leap of faith, filling in the gap with a good extraordinary pile of evidence. Atheists are always asserting we need extraordinary evidence. This is evidence. What most atheists mean by that is a little game of raise the bar. I have played this game, met all their demands for documented miracles and they want more.

They keep raising the bar until it turns out they will not believe until you give them regeneration of severed limbs. I show where St. Anthony did that, well it's a legend. I show a miracle that beatified St. Teresa of Lessex, a man grew grew back new lungs over night, but now that's not good because it's a Mary devotional site. It doesn't matter that the case is documented by the best medical evidence of the day (1916). But that's not good enough because the site it's on is not a science site and the X-rays are not on the net.

Atheists will never be satisfied because they are not seeking truth, they are seeking to guard a paradigm. Be that as it may, the evidence for miracles at Lourdes is the finest I the world, and is valid and well documented with the best science has to offer to date. That makes it extraordinary. This furnishes a rational warrant for belief. Meaning, if one chooses to construe it as proof it is not irrational to take it as such. (in other words, people who accept miracles are not crazy)

Lourdes evidence is the best. The Saintmaking miracles use the same rules and virtually the same committee, they are very exacting and rigorous. But they are not as pressure free as the Lourdes committee. There is some good evidence from the Protestant world, but not much. Protestants never think about documenting miracles. I also include what I call "the anecdotal pile." I don't think those cases prove anything, they sources are bad and docs stink, but I include them for the purpose of showing how many people in this world experience amazing things they define as "miracle." Miracles are going on all the time, and they not often given attention, not reported and not believed.

http://doxa.ws/other/Miracles.html


What most atheists mean by that is a little game of raise the bar. I have played this game, met all their demands for documented miracles and they want more. <--- Yes, just as in Jesus day and they SAW the miracles!
Atheists will never be satisfied because they are not seeking truth <---I wonder how smart Christopher Hitchens is feeling right now...Never know...he could have repented at the last minute...?
Miracles are going on all the time, and they not often given attention, not reported and not believed. <--- for sure! Also not recognized...
 

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Well, and there you have said a profound sentence with many layers.

1. Is there even such a thing as good and bad; in Reality is there any duality at all...or is it just perspective.
God having all the perspective...the clearest perspective...and that's why it is so easy for us
not to judge anything...because we know nothing...from this teeny perspective.
Like an ant judging quantum physics.

From this teeny perspective we actually think or can be tricked to think
the chair we sit in is real...from an EM Microscope's view...it certainly is not!

Miracles? Just things we don't understand...walking on water, healing, multiplying the loaves?
Easy when you know the very Nature of Creation!

I'm gettin' there!! :)
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(Dogs need a savior? Hippies believed in the Rapture?) Sorry ..I digressed.
Jesus never came for your dog, your dog etc can not be saved, when I see a cross siting above where the family pet is buried I know that the people have no idea.
I had a mates 9yo kid say to me that his dog was in heaven now, well I did not say anything but that tricksy was a good dog.
The thing is if people believe that there pet is going the Heaven, well then that is a work of Satan, it's totally misleading because how can Jesus save anyone but a human, to save a dog God would have to send a dog to save them but dogs etc do not need the saving Grace that Jesus provides Humans for there Soul.

The rapture is a new age load of crap something like you get out of a breakfast box, one has to look into what the Catholic Church says on the subject to understand it all in depth, it's not all just as simple as the rapture mob claim it to be.
The rapture mob are playing on that people are gullible enough to fall for the simpleness, just like hippies do, smoking pot taking drugs living in a little world off there face from reality.
Sure it's enticing concept but how many cones does one have to smoke to believe in such fantasy's. the whole concept is off with the pixies.
I have heard so much rubbish about this nonsense, like as if the world is going to turn to disorder and madness and then the Christians are going to be raptured up, so that they do not have to go through the fires of hell on Earth when it happens, well fact is Christians will not be leaving the Earth at all and they will go through it just as everyone will. it's not fantasy land.

I have met idiots who work for the ends of bringing on hell on Earth to come about, they want it to come about, but they believe they will be raptured out, so they work for this ends, they believe in OSAS so they claim there insurance is in that, but sadly the thing is just believing in Jesus and saying lord lord does not cut it at all, you must be at the right Hand of God and do his will only, for he never knew you if you don't. so one is on the wrong path and two wrongs do not make a right, one can never do wrong in the hope that good will come out of such and that is what they are doing, they love to feed this false Israel that is an Anti-Christ what more do I have to say, than by there works you will know them. the idiots think they can serve two masters.
When the Anti-Christ system comes to full power with there Marxist Socialist Political Correctness they will turn into the monster that we all know that Communism is about, it's totally Anti-Christ a Politically Correct religion that all must follow and some will be the leadership they will have the mark in there forehead and the hand men marked in there hand, it's worldly works they do and they kill anyone who rejects there utopia. but it will fail as all things do that are not of God.
It will make WW2 look like a pimple on a pumpkin, everything will be burnt up and only the reality will be left for all to see.
We see it now that this Anti-Christ mobs are working to undermine what was once a Healthy Democracy with true freedom of speech for all, into becoming a bunch of Nazi type of thugs running about dictating their pathetic Idol Political Correctness pox over everyone, destroying peoples lively hoods and a bunch of intimidation tactics in the work place, no they are the new age Nazi that's for sure, real degenerate dictating full on creeps to be sure to be sure.