(December 6, 2016 at 3:40 pm)Asmodee Wrote:(December 6, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: A big one that happened not too long ago was the miracle of the sun in fatima. I think most Church approved miracles consist of apparitions and spontaneous healing of serious illnesses/disorders.
You can't name a single miracle, Old or New Testament, which didn't have a clear, inarguable purpose. Do you really thing the sun thing in 1917 had a "clear, inarguable purpose"? What was that purpose? It seems like the only purpose would be to convince people that miracles are real, but that doesn't jive with the teachings of Jesus, who refused to perform miracles just to prove they were real.
The obvious ones like being healed from an illness, Jesus' rising from the dead, apparitions which told people some specific information, have their obvious purposes. As for the rest, I really don't know. I don't know why God chooses to send signs of His existence to specific people. I've had something supernatural happen in front of me that I would call a miracle, and I wonder all the time what the purpose of it was, or why it happened to me. I really don't know.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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