Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Proving Miracles by Proving God Exists

Many people today do not believe in miracles or even count the possibilities of a miracle happening. Since the Christian faith is dependent on a miracle, people also discredit Christianity has being real or possible. I am going to try and prove miracles from one aspect. This is only one proof for arguments for miracles.

One way to prove miracles exist and do happen is to prove that God exists. The argument for miracles and God's existence are closely related and also tied together. You will need an argument that are not only proves the existence of God, but also establish God's nature. There are three attributes about God's nature that would prove that miracles exist:
1. God is a being powerful enough to produce events in
space/time.
2. God is an intelligence with a capacity to frame the
convergence of events of space/time.
3. God is a personality with moral concern to act in
history.
There are three traditional arguments whose conclusions answer these three descriptions of God: the cosmological, the teleological, and the moral argument respectively.

The cosmological argument states that our universe runs in a cause and effect arrangement. Everything in this universe is caused by something else which is caused by something else and so on. You eventually get to a point where there must be an ultimate cause is not caused by anything else,but it sustains itself. This ultimate cause idea would display qualities of "divine nature" or "God-ness" or in other words the idea of a God who is non-dependent.

The teleological argument states that the universe is arranged and organized in a way that would lead someone to think there is a designer. The universe is so finely tuned that the possibility of the universe happening by chance is minute or impossible. If any of the natural laws (i.e. gravity, polarity of water molecules) were greater or lesser, the universe would not be able to sustain life and may not exist at all. The possibility of a designer is greater than the universe happening by random chance.

The moral argument argues that there is an absolute standard by which we all base out actions on. Even people who don't believe in absolute truth contradicts themselves. For they will tell you that you are being morally wrong, but how can that be possible if there is no absolute truth. Those people will say that your morality is good or bad, but compared to what. There must be a standard that they compare your morality to. That standard will also have to be set by a higher power that is outside of this world. This higher power would have to a God.

These arguments prove there is a God, but only the characteristics of one that could understand value and make free moral judgments. This is only one part of the argument for miracles.

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