Stories about miracles are an obstacle to faith for modern people.(TM) Discuss.

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'Stories about miracles are an obstacle to faith for modern people.' Discuss.

A miracle can be defined in a number of ways, for Hume Miracles are a "violation of law by a supernatural being" and Bultmann argued that all miracles are "mythological", this meaning miracle stories were expressions relevant to the question of existence confronting everyone, both scholars opinions highlight the suggestion of if the concept of miracles is valid for modern people as they discuss the relevance of miracles in faith.

Hume, in his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding of Miracles (pt2) stated that "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one" - Hume is suggesting that the foundations to the Christian religion are based upon miracles and that Christianity is not reasonable if it is based on this, thus Christian belief undermines, "subverts", all understanding and experience - With this view in mind we can make the assumption that for Hume miracles ARE an obstacle to faith for modern people as miracles supposedly weaken the Christian faith as they have no real veracity.

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