Sentences with phrase «miraculous act»

Are there signs and wonders and miraculous acts of God?

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

The fact that many apocryphal stories of Jesus doing miraculous acts as a boy were rejected by the church shows that for early Christians it was perhaps more important...

Nevertheless, he still believes that it falls within an orderly system of cause and effect, and even a devoutly Christian historian is not apt to trace an event solely to a supernatural or miraculous act of God.

A sign story consists of a miraculous act of Jesus usually surrounded or followed by a theological discussion of its meaning.

During his ministry Jesus was repeatedly challenged to authenticate his mission by some miraculous act (Mk 8:11 - 13; Mt 12:38 - 39; 16:1, 4; Lk 11:16, 29).

But Jesus knows that belief merely because of miraculous acts is likely to be transient when it does not penetrate to the meaning behind the act.

Many of the motifs of Luke's whole two - volume work are contained in this narrative: the Old Testament background of Jesus» message; the Gospel preached to the poor; the arrival of the messianic age, the hostility of the Jews to his message, and their final rejection of him, climaxed by a miraculous act of deliverance.

Verses 17 - 18 mention that the crowd's enthusiasm is based on Jesus» miraculous act of raising Lazarus.

The resurrection of a dead person — whatever its precise nature — could be seen as a miraculous act of God.

By what observable causal mechanisms does the «intelligent designer» execute these miraculous acts?

In contrast to modernist interpretation, the Christian experience of God is said to depend upon the recognition of a unique and miraculous act of the transcendent God.

Turning Water Into... An Oak Tree: Michael Craig - Martin Discusses Performing a Miraculous Act of Conceptual Art

Gal Weinstein's creation of an Israeli «landscape» that fills the pavilion takes its title, «Sun Stand Still,» from a miraculous act performed by ancient Israelite leader Joshua Bin - Nun, who was engaged in a battle with the Canaanites that he needed to win before darkness.