Are there ANY Bible Miracles you don't believe?

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Are their ANY Bible Miracles you don’t believe? AND WHY not?

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It is difficult to believe that the sun stood still when Joshua asked it to. For the sun to stand still, would mean that the earth would stop rotating. For the earth to suddenly stop rotating would be a major miracle violating the principle of conservation of angular momentum. Suppose the rotation stopped, then what would happen to the moon? It is written that the moon stopped moving. If so, would it not come crashing down to the earth? And what about the massive tidal waves that would result causing catastrophic harm? To say that there was one miracle, that of the sun standing still, is impossible, because there would be required many other miracles in order to preserve a semblance of normalcy on earth.
Joshua 10: 12-14.
 
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Wouldn’t you presume a miracle would take into account various other factors, being that God would know all the factors at play?
Not to argue about the specific miracle just the complaint lodged against it.
 
Well, there is a reason they are called miracles. I suppose that is a characteristic of a miracle: they are things that should not be able to happen.
 
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Are their ANY Bible Miracles you don’t believe? AND WHY not?

God Bless you

Patrick
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What do you mean by “believe”? Clarification if you could.
To me belief is to give my response to the saving Truth in Scripture, and in Jesus himself, as propsed by the magisterium.

If you are asking if I give literalist scientific credence to every happening in the bible, how could anyone give that?
 
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Well, I guess my question would be then, how is this any different from say walking on water or telling a paralyzed man to pick up his mat and go home? None of the miracles in the bible should have happened, yet they did. We have a omnipotent God who created all things ex nihilo; making the sun stop would be nothing. And he made the sun dance at Fatima.

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Miracles by definition would be ‘outside’ science anyway. But I think you’re maybe a little confused about ‘literalist scientific’ etc. I mean, I’ve heard the Jesus Seminar explanations about Jesus raising the widow’s son (the son wasn’t really dead, just in a deep coma --or to paraphrase The Princess Bride, he was only ‘mostly dead’). But if we believe, and as Christians we do believe, that Christ was incarnate of a Virgin, gave us His Flesh and His Blood to eat and drink, suffered, died, rose again from the dead and rules eternally with the Father and the Spirit, why would we suddenly have qualms about any other miracle God authorized?
 
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And he made the sun dance at Fatima.
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This is another miracle that is somewhat problematic. If the sun was dancing around in the sky, the question has come up as to why observatories in other parts of the earth did not see anything unusual with the position of the sun at that time.
There might have been some sort of local weather related optical illusion. However, it is difficult to believe that the sun was dancing around in the sky
  1. since such a thing would normally cause catastrophic turmoil throughout the whole solar system and
  2. since this solar activity was not observed in other parts of the world.
 
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And yet 70,000 saw it. And they were all dry at the end of it and it had been raining that day.
 
No I cannot say that I have read that book. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
I do roll my eyes at the ages of the OT patriarchs though. I don’t for one minute believe that some guy lived 900 years, or was journeying across the desert at age 100.
 
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I do roll my eyes at the ages of the OT patriarchs though. I don’t for one minute believe that some guy lived 900 years, or was journeying across the desert at age 100.
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Why stop the “eye-rolling” there?

Burning bush. Parting of waters. Pillars of fire. Raising dead people. Fiery chariots going up to heaven. City walls tumbling down. Demons cast out of human beings. Virgin births. Prophecies of Temple destructions. Resurrection and Ascension in Heaven. Tongues of Fire

Heck a guy journeying across a desert at a hundred years of age is pedestrian in comparison.

Where is your line drawn and why? For consistency sake, I mean.

Seems to me that either God as omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent exists, which means pretty much anything is possible.

Or God doesn’t. Which means the reasons for some pretty miraculous things has to be explained.
 
The ages in the OT are not presented as miraculous or special works of God, unlike burning bushes, virgin births etc. They are presented more like they’re just saying So-and-so was 85 when he died only instead of 85 it’s 850. The matter-of-fact tone makes me think that time is being counted in an odd way or that the age length is symbolic.

As for “where I draw the line”…I draw it where i feel like drawing it. YMMV
 
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God created everything. God is master of all law. Therefore if God says to the sun stop what you are doing and do this, then the sun obeys.

Isn’t God wonderful.
 
Because contexts vary considerably.
Some are more credible than others accordingly.
Testamentary credibility is just as important as content credibility.
Both vary considerably.
 
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