Miracles can not be explained, but scientists have tried to overlook the word miracle, and use the word coincidence instead. Some scientists have been looking at some miracles in the bible, and explaining them in scientific terms. For example when the 10 pelages of Egypt happened, they believe a Volcano erupted under the water and made rock unsettled. This in turn made poisonous chemicals fuse around in the water. The algae grew larger to battle the chemicals, and this made the algae turn red, which from a distance made the water look like it was turning red. When the animals drank from the river, they were killed off because of the chemicals still merged in the water. Humans were then affected when they drank the water. The chemicals covered the skin in boils.
So maybe the bible has also used the word ‘Miracle’ loosely and the bible has overreacted to some of the incidences that have happened.
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Discuss the importance of the Healing Miracles of Jesus for Christian life today.
- Jesus heals a Paralytic
- The man with Leprosy
- A blind man receives his sight
Miracles encourage faith in our Christian Society. If a miracle happened, we would believe it was an act of God, which would help us believe that little bit more that God does exist. Also healing miracles such as the ones stated above are more powerful in making us believe that God is real because someone has changed from a sick or discomforted person to a happy and enjoyable person, which we believe God could only do.
Miracles are also seen as an act of forgiveness, for example reconciliation.
When we go to reconcile we believe God heals us from our sins. If a miracle happens, we could believe that God is healing them from their sins, which could make a Christian reconcile more to God, and ask for forgiveness.
This could also make a Christian forgive people more because they could believe that miracles happen out of forgiveness.
The sacrament of the sick is also another way that the Christian Society looks at miracles. We believe that if we or someone else is blessed by a priest, on there death bed when they finally die they are sent off to heaven and the blessing they got would remove all there sins which would make the journey more special and holy. This would comfort a lot of people who have lost there loved ones, and the sacrament of the sick could be a final way of saying thank you to that person, and also it can give the person support that they know that the person who has just died is in a safe and holy place.
Jesus performing miracles in the bible are also important to the Christian Life today, when many Christians find Christianity on a pilgrimage to a place were a miracle has happened. Christians feel that if they travel to a place of worship were a miracle has taken place that Jesus performed, they could also be blessed with the Holy Spirit in the same place. But pilgrimages are not always about being blessed; it is a way that Christians can link together as a Society and prey to God together. This alone can give a person the feel that the Holy Spirit and God is looking down on them, and protecting them.
Jesus also performed an early Christian exorcism. Many people will result into exorcism if they believe that the devil, or an evil spirit has took charge of them and is controlling the way that person is thinking and acting towards over people. Jesus performing the miracle of driving the evil spirit away has let Christian Society result into another means of leading the path of Christianity, and being healed by God. This would be important to Christians because if they could not stand up to God in reconciliation and say that they were wrong, they could let God stand up to them, and perform his miracle on them, through the eyes of a priest, to make them holy again.
Healing miracles are very important today because diseases, death, and exorcism are still happening. Miracles encourage faith, which allows many people to use the Christian church and the use of reconciliation to get forgiven. Many people use prayer as a quick and expressive miracle, when God heals them of there sins, which then leads on to pilgrimages and special masses where the Holy Spirit is asked to bless the church and its congregation.
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“Healing miracles do not happen today.”
Do you agree? Give reasons to support your answer and show that you have thought about different points of view. You must refer to Christianity in your answer.
Some people agree with this statement because of there faith. There faith might say that miracles do not happen, and if someone says it’s a miracle then it’s not true, but it could be a coincidence. Others might say that there is scientific reasoning behind a miracle, and that miracles do not exist, and others believe that it is something supernatural, and out of this world if a miracle happens.
Some people disagree with this statement because of there faith. There faith might be around the workings of miracles, such as Christianity. Jesus based his life on helping others, some in which he performed miracles and exorcisms on. Some might disagree with this statement because they believe that God can only perform miracles, and they a worshiper of God, so they can still happen, and Some people might disagree because they believe that the Bible is only based on the truth, and the bible has strong references to miracles, meaning they can still happen.
The Churches view is of the bible, and the bible mentions lot of different accounts that had happened over Jesus’ life, and more pacifically the miracles he performed to other people, and because Jesus has now dies, they might not believe in miracles that happen today. The Church also believe in God, and that God can only perform miracles, so they might not believe in recent miracles after Jesus’ death, but they do believe in the ones when Jesus was alive.
My view on miracles is that of the people who agree on the statement. I believe that there must be some reason behind a so called ‘Miracle’, because many miracles do have some form of scientific explanation. Plus I have never seen a miracle happen, so that might be why I do not believe.
