He said for Christians the universe and the nature of its workings was in itself a miracle from God. Wiles doesn’t reject that God can himself alter nature and create a miracle. Wiles used the description if God drying up a sea, God can do such things. For Wiles the problem was that God is why would God do such things,
There Are No Such Things as Miracles The subject about miracles is strongly opinionated, there are a lot of assumptions, theories and happenings that can lead a person to believing whether miracles do or don’t happen. It all relies on the person’s belief and what they follow. A miracle is usually defined by ‘unexplainable events that break the laws of nature’. There are different types of miracles that most of us have probably heard about, for example, miracles of healing, exorcism, resurrection and nature. The belief in a miracle can come from either experiencing them or religious reasons and explanations.
9 What two words do scholars agree were used by Jesus in a distinctive way? What was distinctive about Jesus uses of words? ANSWER: ABBA AND AMEN. BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT THE USUAL WORDS AND THEY DEMONSTRATED JESUS’ WAY OF ADDRESSING GOD, AND MOST OF THE TIMES HE SPEAKS IN PARABLES. 10 Why do Christians believe they can trust the Gospels; to accurately convey the truth o f Jesus teaching?
are strongly in-line with Natural Law. Many Christians adopt deontological positions and think we should act according to God's design or purpose for our lives. They may be less influenced by Aquinas in this, and Protestants tend to be less sure about moral absolutes. However, there is still a strong sense of following rules within most Christian denominations. Aquinas said: “Consequently, law must needs concern itself mainly with the order that is in beatitude.” From this we can see that the Bible played a big part in the development of Natural Law; this proves that Christians make moral decisions through a multiple of different ways.
And this true relationship is one of the main advantages of being human – that we are “a little lower than God and crowned with glory and honor.” (Psalm 8:5) This is proven in John 14 because as Jesus, whose relationship with the Spirit is incomparable, talks of the Spirit, he uses the pronouns he and him – not it. The reason for us to develop our relationship with the Spirit is that he may be with us even more so than God or Jesus. I say this because we know that Jesus ascended into heaven to be with the Father, but the Spirit has been sent to us on earth by Jesus to be our comforter and our guide (John 14:16). He has three main jobs with the church: to teach us the truth, build the church, and help us spread God's love. The Spirit's job in regard to truth is to teach us unknown things about God, for just as no one knows are deep secrets of a person but that person's spirit, so can no one know God's secrets except his Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11).
The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke are referred to as the synoptic gospels because of the similarities of their structure and content. (Woods, 1996) It is believed that the Gospel of Mark was written before the others, as it appears to be the basis for the content and arrangement of the gospels of Luke and Matthew. The differences in the gospels of Luke and Matthew lie in their context, both authors reflected the tradition of their communities. Parables are a commonly used feature of the gospels and a characteristic feature of Jesus’ teaching. Parables are engaging stories that relate to real life circumstances, they illustrate a moral or teaching while adding the interest of a story with characters and plot.
Calvin’s idea of predestination suggests that some people are God’s ‘elect’ and that, after death, these ‘elect’ will join God in heaven. Believers in predestination claim that our actions, whether ‘elect’ or ‘damned’, are predestined or decided by God; meaning that we have very little, if any at all, free will in our decision making or actions. This theory of predestination often leads people to believe in a God ‘who favours some but not all of his creation’, which would be intrinsically linked to miracles in the sense that, regardless of what we do, God has already decided whether he will interact with the world or perform a miracle. Miracles, in this sense, are seen not as unsystematic breaches of natural law but rather as the eternal intention of God for the world. For this reason, people who agree with Calvin in believing in predestination often find it difficult to understand why miracles aren’t common occurrences.
Although a few sacred readings and the form that followers pray are similar in both religions they are also slightly different. For example the most important text in Christianity is The Bible (that consist of The Old Testament and New Testament). Jews however, consider the TaKa’kh their “holy book” (which consist of mostly The Old Testament). When a Jewish prayer is taking place, Hebrew is spoken; when a Christian prays they do it in the language they regularly speak. Furthermore, Christians believe in heaven, hell, and purgatory, in other words, they believe that where they will go after death depends on the way they have executed life.
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active…” The Bible is authoritative due to divine inspiration, but what good would this authority be if what was written in the Bible was unreliable? We not only have Gods authority behind the Bible we also have Gods verity in the Bible. This is what is called inerrancy. Inerrancy is being unquestionably true and accurate and free from errors and mistakes. The Bible speaks of itself in such a way in Psalms 12:6 “And the words of the Lord are
MARY, QUEEN OF PROPHETS Whenever the word “Prophet” is mentioned our minds quickly turns to the great men of God – that is, the Prophets in the Scriptures. This leap is not actually wrong but can stereotype our understanding of the idea of what a prophet actually is. In order to shed more light on what I am saying, if I ask: Are there still prophets in our time? Our response may be affirmative or negative depending on what we perceive the concept Prophet or Prophecy to be. Even when we affirm that there are prophets in our time, we sometimes don’t see the similarity between the Biblical prophets and what we experience now.