Miracles (8)
Very unjustly at the mention of miracles one thinks almost exclusively of those in the material domain, and almost without a thought passes by the spiritual miracles. This of course is absurd.
Abraham Kuyper
Principles of Sacred Theology, 4203.8K
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
I have been concerned that such accounts should be published because I saw that signs of divine power like those of older days were frequently occuring in modern times too
Everywhere the Apostolic Church was marked out as itself a gift from God, by showing forth the possession of the Spirit in appropriate works of the Spirit-miracles of healing and miracles of power, miracles of knowledge whether in the form of prophecy or of the discerning of spirits, miracles of speech, whether the gift of tongues or of their interpretation. The Apostolic Church was characteristically a miracle-working churchCounterfeit Miracles, p.5
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The reliance on special signs from God is the mark of an immature person -someone who cannot simply believe the truth as presented, but must have a special, miraculous sign as the symbol of authority from God.Finding God\'s Will, 12
I use the word Miracle to mean an interference with Nature by supernatural power. Unless there exists, in addition to Nature, something else which we may call the supernatural, there can be no miracles.
A miracle is a less common kind of God's activity in which he arouses people's awe and wonder and bears witness to himself.ST, 355
The entrance of sin into the world makes the supernatural intervention of God in the course of events necessary for the destruction of sin and for the renewal of creation.Systematic Theology, 177
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