Is there any independent archeological or historical evidence of these miracles? For instance something like the Israelites leaving Egypt after the Egyptian firstborns were killed, turning the Nile to blood, plagues of frogs, the death of the Pharaoh etc would have merited at least some mention in any of the stone monuments of the period. There are none. Similarly the death of the Assyrians army at the siege of Jerusalem again should have gained some records, given how many clay tablets they wrote. Again no mention. Both the Romans and the Jewish priesthood were very compulsive record keepers, yet they did not note any unusual phenomenon around the time of the crucifixion.
With all these very impressive events you'd have thought that someone else would have noted something at least. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[email protected]> wrote: > >>He was talking about the miracles that were performed in >>order for Moses to free the Jews from the egyptians. Yet when it came >>to ww2 and the concentration camps, no miracles were seen. Yet the >>concentration camps were more of a malevolent threat to Jews than were >>the Egyptians. > > Not sure what the point is here. It certainly doesn't say anything about > whether God exists or does not, whether miracles happen or not, just because > he did not step in here. Some may argue that he certainly did through the > examples of incredible courage of people that helped hide Jews and otherwise > risk their lives. You will find most, if not all, of the people in these > cases were led by their religious convictions. > > Biblical miracles were not just wily-nily things. They happened during very > specific times and granted to a very small number of people - major prophets. > They were always part of times of revelation from God to his people. Sure, we > have people claim miracles all the time, whether it's healing a sickness or > seeing the Virgin Mary in their toast. These aren't what most Biblical > scholars consider true miracles such as seen with the Moses, Elijah or > Jesus...miracles mainly performed to call attention to the revelations given > from God. We are obviously not in a time of revelation any more...Jesus gave > us what we needed to know. So we cannot expect to see Biblical-scale miracles. > > > --- Mary Jo > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306332 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
