Miracles have not been demonstrated to occur... Even if a ‘miracle’ could be demonstrated it
would not immediately imply the existence of a god, much less any
particular one, as unknown natural processes or agents could
still be at work.
No. There comes a point where right reason and basic understanding of laws in the universe rule out your claim “unknown natural processes or agents could
still be at work.” The reason we know God exists and that He is the Judeo-Christian God is because the preponderance of evidence is overwhelming throughout history. All of the great miracles are Christian, not Hindu, not Islam, not nobody. Man’s greatest sin is his choice to not want to know the truth. He feels more comfortable on the outside, hanging with his friends, having fun, and surmising we are all pretty good guys, if there is a God I doubt we will be punished severely. That is my take on it.
Explain to me how this did not happen? Explain to me how it did happen. >>>Fatima, Portugal 1917: 3 shepherd children no older than 9 keep having the Virgin Mary appear to them each month. On July 13th Mary says to the children to tell all the villagers that on October 13th the Lord will perform a sign so all present will know my words are from heaven. ---- On that EXACT DAY the children predicted it would occur, it does. 70,000 country folk slog through mud and rain to witness this prophecy. As soon as the children arrive Lucia points to the sky and the sun splits open the dark gray skies and begins to defy cosmic laws. It bounces, zig zags and twirls shooting multi-colored rays across the entire landscape changing the land and people’s faces from blue to red to yellow, etc. All can stare at the sun without any damage to their eyes. This lasts for 12 minutes when finally the suns turns blood red, grows into an enormous size and charges the earth terrifying the entire crowd. At the last moment it stops, recedes and all is peaceful. ------ Marxist journalists there to mock the event admit the truth in their Lisbon newspaper. Eye witnesses from atheists to skeptic scientists and doctors all testify to what was so incredible and factual. That being, something supernatural just gripped us all!
To sum:
Fact: 3 Portuguese shepherd children insist the Virgin Mary is visiting them on the 13th every month in 1917.
Fact: By July 13 hundreds of villagers witness the children in ecstasy. The children report that the Virgin Mary told them she will perform a miracle on October 13 so all those present will see the miracle and then know the words given to these children are from God.
Fact: By August these accounts have become so well known across Portugal that local govt officials kidnap the children and hold them in jail for three days and threaten with death in order to get them to recant their story. They do not recant the townspeople riot so the officials finally let them go.
Fact: On October 13th it is extremely rainy and muddy. Estimates center around 70,000 people who walk for many, many miles across Portugual to be witness to this prophecy.
Fact: Also present in this crowd are hundreds of atheists or unbelievers including scientists, doctors, lawyers and Marxist journalists for the Lison paper “O Seculo” there to mock this whole event.
Fact: It is both written testimonies and filmed interviews of scores of eye witnesses testifying to what they saw. And all those testimonies concur they saw the same thing. It includes an eyewitness account by Dr. José Maria de Almeida Garrett, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Coimbra, Portugal and the communist reporter Avelino de Almeida for "O Seculo." Many others including eye witnesses 10 and 20 miles away from the site who testified to seeing the sun dance and change colors.
Fact: After about 12 minutes the sun recedes into its normal state and all of the people realized their soaked clothes and muddy, soaked ground were bone dry. According to science commentators, the people would have been burned up for soaked clothes and ground to be made dry that quickly.
Fact: The children said the Virgin Mary told them the two children, Francisco and Jacinta, would soon be taken to heaven, but Lucia would live for a long time. Fact: Both Francisco and Jacinta were dead within two years of that date and Lucia lived until she was 95.
Final Fact: On July 13 these Fatima children predicted a miracle would occur on October 13. And 90 days later, it does on that exact day! That fact alone is the deal breaker. Or is everyone a liar? Including those who witnessed it 20 miles away?
Everything I called a fact can easily be researched and verified as facts. A supernatural encounter happened with the Virgin Mary and everything Jesus. There is no other religion or belief that has ever produced miracles this giant and profound and prophesied in advance. Christianity and the one true God have manifested this way on countless other occasions. This the empirical evidence the skeptic demands. But when they are given it, then they want another example. Well there are many documented miracles. I really do not think they want another.
