Sentences with phrase «reported as a miracle»

What is reported as a miracle may sometimes have been in fact a quite natural event.

Not exact matches

The Miracle carrier has been reported as hard to adjust and the shoulder straps have been reported as lacking in proper support.

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

To argue that historians might judge such and such to be a miracle because they believe antecedently in the religion that regards such miracles as signs of the intervention of its deity is to open the floodgates for all religious claims to miracles and, indeed, even to nonreligious «miracles» such as the widespread reports that people have seen Elvis Presley.

We can not prove a metaphysical connection, just as the thousands of reported miracle healings or other presumed answers to prayer can not be proved to the satisfaction of the Humes and the Kants of the world.

If you take miracles as evidence, are you willing to accept the reports of Emperors and other, non-Christian, folks performing miracles?

(Individuals that are Neo-pagans, Buddhists, Christians, and Hindus have all reported these «miracles», which have later been exposed as fraudulent.)

Some miracle reports — especially the most exaggerated ones — must surely be taken as nothing more than products of the pious imagination.

The conditions favorable for belief in miracle reports are several: a strong religious conviction, a vivid imagination, a pre-scientific or non-scientific view of the world, and discontent with the conditions of everyday life as a result of boredom, oppression, or want.

The «picture of Gethsemane,» that was hanging on the wall, was, of course, a portrayal of Jesus — whose «transforming power and accomplishments» had in fact worked so many signs, miracles, and wonders — as reported in the Bible.

They know, as Wesley did not, that many of the supposed miracles reported in Scripture can be interpreted as perfectly natural occurrences and that yet others are clearly the products of faith, instead of extraordinary happenings that somehow produced faith.

The most uncomprehending comments from the Post were those of columnist Richard Cohen, who denounced Scalia as a «cheap - shot artist» for his attack on the Post's coverage of reported miracles in Virginia, and claimed Scalia was «abusing» the newspaper to make his point that the «worldly wise» are hostile «to religion and religious phenomena.»

I don't insist that you abrogate your faith that miracles actually happened as reported in the Gospels, so long as you don't expect me to believe that they did.

The Botswana Gazette reported that services at Shepherd Bushiri's Enlightened Christian Gathering Church (ECG) in Gaborone, were stopped due to concerns over the church's use of «miracle money» - promises of money appearing as if by magic.

The tabloid name Watford captain Troy Deeney and Crystal Palace wideman Yannick Bolasie as the two players the Foxes are considering, with The Sun reporting that Ranieri's miracle man are plotting a # 40 million double transfer swoop to bring the duo to the King Power Stadium.

McHale, who was last reported as being in negotiations for the Coraci picture, will next star in Tristram Shapeero's A Friggin» Christmas Miracle, alongside McLendon - Covey.

Here's our box office report for the weekend of February 3, 2012 — featuring the performance of new releases «Chronicle», «The Woman In Black» and «Big Miracle» as well as returning films like «The Grey» and «The Descendants».

«I am horrified by police reports from across the UK of groups of children as young as five risking their lives by daring each other to lie down in the road or clamber over the roofs of derelict buildings.Recently, a nine - year - old only survived by a miracle after falling 30 feet through a roof in Birmingham.

But now, as we move to the next level of accountability, this reform «miracle» is being called into question by discrepancies leading to allegations of fraud in dropout reporting as well as the preliminary results of the new, more rigorous, Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, which, depending on your perspective, reflect either a lack of true student achievement progress in many areas or a backsliding in progress previously reported.Recently, this debate was sharpened with the release of the results in five major U. S. cities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, in which Houston participated on a voluntary basis, and the results were mixed at best.

But as we've reported for a long time at Substance, the facts about Vallas's careers (in several cities and states, as well as overseas, is clear — and clearly not the myth promoted by Vallas and his allies that Vallas is some kind of miracle worker.