RE: Miracles in Christianity - how to answer
September 28, 2017 at 3:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2017 at 3:33 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 28, 2017 at 2:33 am)KiwiNFLFan Wrote: supposedly the bread turned into flesh and the wine turned into blood which coagulated. Scientists have tested the flesh and blood, which remain to this day, and have found it to be real blood and heart tissue.
So let's say they discovered it was real flesh and blood so what? Is it from Jesus himself or could it be from some random guy that this priest put it as a humbug? Unfortunately people fake these kind of stuff all the time and even more unfortunate is how gullible people are and want to believe in it, like in Mumbai in India in 2012 when statue of Jesus started "crying" - hundreds of Catholics flocked to worship it and when Sanal Edamaruku discovered that the "miracle" was just a piss and shit (due to bad plumbing) believers got outraged and chased away Edamaruku out of the country, because if he didn't flee they would put him in jail.
So I would advise you to read book by James Randi "Flim Flam" about people that have need to invent these kind of deceptions or at least watch his NOVA documentary Secrets of the Psychics Documentary on youtube or watch few episodes of Penn and Teller Bullshit.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
