Subject: Re: Quotes for today: Miracles
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:15:25 +0000
From: Mary Older <>
Newsgroups: uk.religion.christian

In article <3765E113.954B80>, Graham J Weeks  writes
>I don't believe in miracles - I depend upon them.      Raymond Dale
>
>The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is
>sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs.
>Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I
>only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question.
>Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone
>else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to
>their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is
>speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics
>in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men
>obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the
>spirit of the age they grew up in.
>C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "Fern-seed and Elephants"
>--
>
>Graham J Weeks

I am physically disabled, I have Cerebal Palsey, I cannot use my hands,
I use my feet as hands, and I am partly deaf, I believe God has and is,
healing me over the years, and the fact he has not healed me physically
altogether yet, or may not, may be because he wants to use me as I am. I
believe the whole world is a miracle!

Dod Bless,
Mary
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Mary Older