(November 30, 2016 at 6:50 pm)Asmodee Wrote:I didn't say that you are actively denying that go exists. I am implying that you have taken a stance with this respect to the proposition "Does god(s) exist?" You have tacitly expressed that your answer is "No it/they do not." Based on the way you have chosen to make that position known, I have made a personal judgement that you would resist attributing anything to a divine cause.(November 30, 2016 at 4:02 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Your post reeks of incredulity.Theists often try to slip it by us as if it's no big deal, but it is a VERY big to change my position from disbelief to a positive assertion, from "don't believe in God" to "deny God".
But this issue isn't just about miracles. Reported miracles are not a cause of faith. No one reads the bible and says, "wow! they recorded miracles, therefore God exists." No, they see them not as evidence; but rather, as instruction. That a miracle occurred is far less important than why it occured. I have no experience with the miraculous. Instead, I see the work of Providence in entirely natural processes.