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Jesus' imperfect miracles.
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RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles.
(June 21, 2015 at 1:12 am)Randy Carson Wrote:


Quote:Those things were "signs"...they weren't intended to be permanent "fixes".

The Catechism explains this clearly [my emphasis added]:

548 The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him.269 To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask.270 So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.271 But his miracles can also be occasions for "offense";272 they are not intended to satisfy people's curiosity or desire for magic. Despite his evident miracles some people reject Jesus; he is even accused of acting by the power of demons.273

549 By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death,274 Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below,275 but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God's sons and causes all forms of human bondage.276

550 The coming of God's kingdom means the defeat of Satan's: "If it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you."277 Jesus' exorcisms free some individuals from the domination of demons. They anticipate Jesus' great victory over "the ruler of this world".278 The kingdom of God will be definitively established through Christ's cross: "God reigned from the wood."279

Since none of us ever saw those "signs" that Jesus supposedly did there's no reason to believe that he did them.
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Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Brakeman - June 20, 2015 at 11:03 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by vorlon13 - June 20, 2015 at 11:28 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Randy Carson - June 21, 2015 at 1:12 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 22, 2015 at 3:00 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 22, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Brakeman - June 22, 2015 at 11:27 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 23, 2015 at 4:26 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 23, 2015 at 12:57 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Minimalist - June 21, 2015 at 2:32 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 21, 2015 at 12:04 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Minimalist - June 22, 2015 at 3:32 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 22, 2015 at 4:13 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Mudhammam - June 24, 2015 at 8:06 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 24, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 21, 2015 at 7:06 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by vorlon13 - June 21, 2015 at 9:31 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by robvalue - June 21, 2015 at 11:25 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Randy Carson - June 22, 2015 at 7:52 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Esquilax - June 23, 2015 at 7:25 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Fidel_Castronaut - June 22, 2015 at 3:27 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Minimalist - June 22, 2015 at 4:17 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Ravenshire - June 22, 2015 at 11:32 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by popsthebuilder - June 23, 2015 at 7:16 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by robvalue - June 24, 2015 at 1:25 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 24, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Randy Carson - June 24, 2015 at 7:06 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Minimalist - June 23, 2015 at 7:47 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Minimalist - June 24, 2015 at 11:07 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Mudhammam - June 24, 2015 at 5:59 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by robvalue - June 24, 2015 at 11:48 am
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Vicki Q - June 25, 2015 at 4:21 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by Pyrrho - June 24, 2015 at 7:18 pm
RE: Jesus' imperfect miracles. - by robvalue - June 25, 2015 at 4:29 pm

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