Termie,
One verse
Acts 4:16 King James Version (KJV)
16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.Am a Christian, I have witnessed miracles but I can tell you that I totally agree with James Randi, 99% of the so called miracles are BS claims that can't stand scrutiny. Notable/Observable miracles are extremely rare. Too rare than we want them and this breeds fakes
There was NOTHING in the Miracle of the Sun. You have thousands preconditioned to see something in the sun, they stare directly into the sun and claimed to have seen it dancing. If the sun is going to dance significantly to be observed by the naked eye it would have to cover hundreds of thousands of kilometers very fast. That's something that can't be missed by 1913 astronomy gear. That not a single observatory picked nothing on this day tells it all. It was a localized event at most.
Sometimes when I was much younger a woman , a devout Catholic claimed to have seen Mary in her hurricane lamp at night. The next day the entire village flocked to her house. During the day they would shut all the doors to and watch at the burning lamp. Some women started claiming that they had seen her too. Those who saw nothing were written off as lacking faith. Over the next few days crowds came from neighboring villages......you get the drift
One of the kids survived to 97 years of age. In the 1940s she was aksd to write down the three secrets she had seen. She wrote just two. The first was a vision of hell ( is this a secret?) The next was a vision of World War 1 ending and WW2 starting if men didn't repent or something. The second is quite impressive except she wrote it AFTER WW2 had started. That's prophet Owuor's mentor right there
The third one is BS as well and i think the one pope suggested she may have imagined it
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.htmlIt would appear that miracles have a hard time being accepted in modern times.
What do you make of the miracle of the sun in Fatima, October 13, 1917? I stand to be corrected but I think one of these children predicted world war II.
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