that's a cop out. getting to the moon didn't involve a "miracle" and is explainable using natural physical laws (no God in the gaps required). can you say the same for walking on water? i think not. if you, or any christian you know, can turn a glass of water into wine (make mine chardonnay, not too dry), well, now we're talking. what say?
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Quote:At least one villain in Superman did it. And Peter Sellars. And i think Benny Hill? Quote:Bill Bixby used to do it all the time. Quote:And that's a poor response for anyone choosing to participate in your discussion. Ask Smelly how well we respond to posters with a chip on their shoulder. |
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David Allen also walked on water.
"If Homosexuals went back into the closet, then there would be no more Homosexuality in this world" - Tom DeLay, US Congressman R-TX "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. -- Emo Philips |
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Why does something have to be miraculous in order to be great? It would be a miracle if I waved my hand over someone's skinned knee and cured it, but how much more great and impressive was Jonas Salk's invention of the polio vaccine? Given a choice between pointless miracles and genuinely wonderous feats of science and technology, I'll shrug the miracles off.
One of the major pitfalls in religion is the assumption that only divinely-inspired events are significant, and only miracles can inspire genuine awe. If I saw a man walking on water, I would consider it a fine parlor trick and wonder whether he could produce a rabbit from his hat. But when I see the images of Jupiter sent back by the Galileo spacecraft, that impresses me. Christ healed a few lepers. Science cured the entire world of smallpox. Forget for a moment which event was miraculous - which was greater? |
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| greater works than Jesus | 10/27/05 17:35:22 | knightrider7 |
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| Re: greater works than Jesus | 10/31/05 21:57:25 | Keith and Company |
| Re: greater works than Jesus | 11/01/05 01:53:53 | raphjd |
| Re: greater works than Jesus | 10/31/05 21:57:52 | gystex |
| Re: greater works than Jesus | 11/01/05 05:07:07 | knightrider7 |
| Re: greater works than Jesus | 11/01/05 05:33:10 | Keith and Company |
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