Christian Strategies

Miracles Explained: Summary

The "Natural" Miracles

The "Supernatural" Miracles

Miracles of Style "Bread Multiplication"

Miracles at Different Levels

Possible Examples

The "Natural" Miracles

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They are incredible, fantastic phenomena; they're always present, but we don't give them the required importance… because we're used to it, since we were small kids. Examples:

• the sun
• the fire
• the water
• the light
• our vision
• when we walk, it's " automatic " (except for the paralytics)
• ...
• Maybe some miraculous phenomena from the Bible may be explained in a natural way, but in a very specific context. E.g. the dry opening of the Red sea… maybe there's a underground bridge in the Nile and, with very particular weather circumstances, that would allow the Jews to walk across the bottom of the river.

The "Supernatural" Miracles

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They're not more spectacular than the "natural" miracles, but they have the particularity to go against the laws of the nature/physics. We know, by the gospels, that the angels may go against the laws of the gravity: Jesus walked over the waters, Jesus temptations (Mat 4:6): Jesus "could jump from the rock", because the angels would protect Him…

The laws of the nature/physics were created by God. The invisible spirits may, thus, simulate them, or…counteract them. In this last case, we would be in presence of a "supernatural" miracle.

The Miracles of the Style "Bread Multiplication"

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This kind of miracles, the "material miracles" can be explained through the analysis of some equations/theories of the physics/chemistry.

We need to take into account the (bio)chemical reactions, the nuclear reactions, which change one chemical substance/atom into another. So, through these kind of reactions, God can change (even man, sometimes) one substance into another. We have also equations which convert energy into matter or vice versa: E=mc² and Energy = matter + antimatter. That means that, even if for the man is still quite difficult to perform automatically this matter "conversion", for God is quite easy and He can simply use energy to convert it in huge quantities of matter.

That's how I explain the miracles style bread and fish multiplication: conversion matter into matter or energy into matter. The same idea can be used to explain the appearance of an enormous quantity of water by time of the Universal Flood and its disapperance afterwards...

Miracles at Different Levels

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We must still distinguish 3 different kinds of miracles:

• those that act at the level of the issuer
• those that act at the level of the channel
• those that act at the level of the receiver

Possible Examples

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1. The Holy Blood of Jesus: this is a permanent miracle, because this Blood, exposed in Bruges, resists time, without degradation, under normal conservation conditions. For further details, please refer to "Arguments Against Islam: the Holy Blood of Jesus".
2. The incorruptible bodies of some saints, like the Holy Blood of Jesus, resist time, without degradation, can even smell perfume or for a time permanently flow blood (stigmata), under natural conservation conditions and without normal natural or artificial procedures of mummification. In opposition to the other procedures of mummification, there's no visible signs of body degradation, only little changes, remaining inclusively the all the organs intact... and they're exclusively from devout traditional Catholics... No comparison is possible with other mummified bodies, like the embalmed corpse of Lenin or the mummies of budddhist monks ... For further details, please refer to Incorruptible Saints.
3. Miracle of the sun, Fatima (Portugal), 1917. Thousands of persons in Fatima saw the sun "dancing". In the rest of the world, the sun remained in its place… This miracle could either:
   • be produced at the level of the brain of these persons (miracle acting at the level of the receivers)
   • be produced through a sort of "filter" could have been set at the atmosphere around the zone of Fatima, allowing only these persons to assist these "special effects" of the sun (miracle acting at the level of the channel)
4. The snake spoke to Adam and Eve. This could also be a real fact, a miracle acting at the level of the receiver. That means: the snake could have used his snake language as usual, but at the level of the audition of Adam and Eve, they could have understood these noises as "words", enabling thus, a real dialog. This kind of transformation of animal noises to words it is possible and may happen still today, in persons with strong nervous symptoms, e.g. schizophrenes. A schizophrene may hear "voices", inner voices, or noises which are percepted as sentences...