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goout
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We should start a new thread:
“Apparitions, and the atheists who need them for affirmation”.
“Apparitions, and the atheists who need them for affirmation”.
Does the miracle of the dancing sun violate the law of non-contradiction?
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po18guy
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You nailed it, Dan! 
Another situation that God allows: Bi-location, such as was witnessed in the case of Padre Pio.
For the OP: This is all part of the mystery, the majesty, the inscrutability of a sovereign God.
And, one problem I see in the consideration of questions such as this thread raises: we err when we attempt to lower God to human level, employing our own reason and intellect.
Indeed, our Lord chastised Saint Peter in Matthew 16:23 (in some translations) for “thinking as man does and not as God does.”
This is a natural thing for us to do, but in contemplation of the unfathomable mystery of God, we must ponder beyond that which is humanly reasonable, logical or physically possible. All things are possible with God.
Another situation that God allows: Bi-location, such as was witnessed in the case of Padre Pio.
For the OP: This is all part of the mystery, the majesty, the inscrutability of a sovereign God.
And, one problem I see in the consideration of questions such as this thread raises: we err when we attempt to lower God to human level, employing our own reason and intellect.
Indeed, our Lord chastised Saint Peter in Matthew 16:23 (in some translations) for “thinking as man does and not as God does.”
This is a natural thing for us to do, but in contemplation of the unfathomable mystery of God, we must ponder beyond that which is humanly reasonable, logical or physically possible. All things are possible with God.
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Dorothy
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It is my thought that God allowed a large group of people to see that phenomena, but the sun was where it usually is when that happened. God wanted them to see that to help them realize that the apparitions were true.
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Finn
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The number of eyewitnesses - the preponderance of evidence - is very obviously a significant feature of Fatima and one that distinguishes it from many other apparent miracles.
The Australian apparition you seem attached to may or may not be true - I haven’t heard and don’t know enough about it to judge: hence, little-known and purported.
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