mrstickball said:
If I expanded the list to family who wouldn't BS, that list to expand significantly to include things like the ability to spontaneously write in ancient languages with perfect prose, spontaneously talk in other languages unknown to speaker, shapeshifting, demonic possessions (far beyond possible psycological diagnosis), prophecy, and so on. Over the years, if you're in the right circles, you hear and see a lot, and I mean a lot of things inside or outside of specific kinds of churches. I try to throw out the things that are likely to happen naturally (e.g. "God saved me from a wreck because I clipped an extra coupon before I got into the car"). Then you have all the instances of people that have documented, at least among their family, impossible things to happen naturally such as the case of Todd Burpo. I am not saying his claim is absolutely real, but if it indeed is - and only his family knows - then even the first half of his story is far beyond the realm of what science or empiricism can explain. |
Problem is a large number of faiths claim 'miracles' (and people from those faiths claim personal witness of them like you) - many of the faiths also claim that their faith is the only true faith and that all others must be false. That leaves three options really.
1) All the faiths but one that claim miracles are lying
2) Miracles occur in all faiths, thus the claim to being the one true faith is incorrect
3) All miracles are, in fact, not actually miracles and none of the faiths are correct
For me it seems the first option is the least likely...