(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?
The same miracle happens everyday, it's the miracle of salvation. You nor I need those kind of things you referred to, know why, a miracle by definition is unexplainable. Relying on what the Bible and God teaches us is more important than miracles. Jesus told the Jews and their priest that they wouldn't believe in Him even though they saw the miracles preformed before their eyes. Jesus is the miracle man needs, try a protestant denomination for awhile and see if you can find what you're looking for within yourself.
Welcome and hope you do not give up, God's willing if you are.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
