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Clear searchTesting Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…no independent criterion by which a successful imitation could be recognised. Scientific miracles acquire their precision retrospectively. Numerical miracles depend upon selective counting and a textual arrangement they then claim to authenticate. Preservation does not prove ins…
Read article →Sir Robert Anderson · Biblical and apologetic argument · 1897
…xplanation is closely tied to his dispensational distinctions and to his understanding of miracles, Israel, the Church, and the apostolic age. That framework must itself be tested rather than assumed. The book offers a theological argument, not a complete pastoral answer to every…
View recommendation →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
Bede's foundational account of Britain and the growth of Christianity among the English, bringing together rulers and missionaries, monasteries and bishops, councils and controversies, conversions, conflicts, remembered miracles, and the formation of a Christian people.
View recommendation →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…elf. “Without division” and “without separation” protect the identity of the one Son. The miracles do not belong to one Christ while the sufferings belong to another. The same Lord acts through the capacities proper to each nature. That is why Christians may say that the Lord of…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…exposes their motive: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.” —John 6:26 The word translated “miracles” is signs. They had seen the event with their eyes, but they had not perceived its…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…e. Both were personally chosen to accompany Jesus. Both heard His teaching, witnessed His miracles, and shared in the life of the disciples. Both were warned that they would fail Him. Both acted against light they had received. Neither man could claim ignorance of who Jesus was o…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…oundary around that honour. Jesus is a messenger and servant of God, not God the Son. His miracles are signs granted by God, not evidence that He shares God's identity. He must not be worshipped, and the Christian confession of His deity is treated as a corruption of true monothe…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…include healings and displays of extraordinary knowledge, but also disturbing punishment miracles in which the young Jesus harms those who offend Him. The work is not the same as the sayings collection commonly called the Gospel of Thomas, nor should it be labelled Gnostic merel…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…us’ answer draws upon the wider prophetic portrait of salvation. Matthew 11:2–6, KJV. His miracles were acts of compassion, and they were also signs of identity. The promised saving power was present because the promised Messiah was present. That fulfilment should not be weakened…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…painful encounter with hypocrisy, and assumptions about morality or the impossibility of miracles. Those associations are not necessarily imaginary. Christian misconduct can obscure the faith we profess. Paul charges religious people with conduct through which God’s name is blas…
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