(September 28, 2017 at 2:33 am)KiwiNFLFan Wrote: Hi, I am a former Catholic who has by and large rejected the Catholic religion. However, one thing keeps niggling away at me: miracles.
I have never experienced anything supernatural myself, but I have heard stories of various miracles happening in both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. One particular kind of miracle that I have no answer for is Eucharistic miracles - the communion bread starting to bleed, or in rarer cases, the bread and wine actually transforming into physical flesh and blood. One such miracle supposedly happened at Lanciano, Italy, in the 7th century. A priest had doubts about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and 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. All the Eucharistic miracles that have been tested have been of blood type AB.
How would you answer these phenomena?
Hi. I have been involved with many Christians over the last 30 years (as a professing Christian myself). I have heard of many supposed miracles but they have always, without fail turned out to have been witnessed by someone who knew someone and so on and so forth. I have never met a person who I believe has genuinely experienced a miracle (i.e other than so and so was healed from their bad back, cancer and so on, which can all have more rational explanations ). Either God is not in the business of miracles, miracles don't occur, God isn't a reality or perhaps God only demonstrates the miraculous to a very select few. I wonder if the flesh and blood tested by the scientists came from the eucharist - obviously we will never know, but I suspect it is a fraud. Benny Hinn doesn't have a monolply on fraud.
