Miracles in other religions compared to Jesus' miracles

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I was wondering how do we explain some of these miracles/“superpowers” that people from other religions had. Here are some examples from Buddhism:

Walking through mountains.

Walking on water (Jesus wasn’t the only one)

Making waves from solid objects like earth.

Sinking in to earth like oil and appearing from a desired location.

Transporting things trough space (Almost like teleportation)

Shrinking body size to fit through a keyhole of a door lock.

The Twin Miracle. Where Buddha started emitting flames from the upper part of his body and a stream of water from the lower, and then alternatively. Flames of fire and streams of water also proceeded alternatively from the right side of his body and from the left.

And that is just Buddhism. In Hinduism, Krishna cured the deaf and the blind and cured a person who’s feet were cut off!

Now I know a common answer that will come up is “that’s the work of the devil”, but some of these things like shrinking in body size to fit a key hole seems beyond some demonic magic trick.
 
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What reason do you have to believe that they’re true in the first place? People exaggerate. People employ allegory. Sometimes, people even make stuff up from whole cloth.
 
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Many in Buddhism accept that their book is not about the miracles but the teaching. The miraculous events of Buddha, many may readily admit, may have been legend added much later.
However, it does not matter. The teachings do, according to them

It depends on the text of Krishna. Some texts on Krishna are later than Christ.
 
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Always remember genre, how these things are interpreted by believers, etc.

But even if we were to take a literalist standpoint and apply no critical look at any of these things, then what do we have? We have the God of Israel declaring Himself the Only God and Jesus rising from the dead, showing He is God and teaching rightly.
 
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I was wondering how do we explain some of these miracles/“superpowers” that people from other religions had.
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“We” don’t “explain” them because “we” “believe in one God, the Father Almighty…and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord” etc. Therefore, we do not believe the claims of other religions concerning the alleged miracles done by their “gods” or “prophets”. Such alleged miracles could fall in any of the following categories:
  • Never happened, and was just made up by the followers of some religion
  • Happened, but was explainable by some natural cause - for example, waves in the earth could be caused by an earthquake happening
  • Is a distortion or adaptation of some Christian miracle story or tradition
  • Happened, but was the work of the Devil or demons
  • Happened, but was actually the work of the one God who for whatever reason (known only to Him) used a non-Christian prophet as his instrument to accomplish something
We have no idea which category might apply, and frankly, it doesn’t matter to me because I don’t base my faith in God on which religion had the most impressive alleged miracles.
 
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The amputee one was done in front of a large marketplace crowd. One of Buddha’s followers chanted some words that Buddha told him to and the person got their limbs back.
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That is a pretty good miracle. Many soldiers come back from war with one of their arms or legs cut off. It would be great if their arm or leg could be restored by praying.
 
If miracles in any religion are true why would it mean that religion is the only one favoured by God?

Why couldn’t miracles be a preternatural gift that some people are just born with like any other talent.
In which case a religion may well help them develop that gift.
 
In the first place, all of Jesus’ miracles were done in the context of the Jewish religion. And that religion has in its history too many miracles to name here. Did miracles stop happening in Judaism after the 1st century?
I doubt it, but am not very well informed on the subject.
 
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There are these things that are called, “false beliefs” and “tricks” that are fooling people to mislead us to the truth.

Have a strong bond with God, don’t get be tricked by these fallacies.
 
Evil spirits can easily replicate some of the wonderous miracles God and the powers of heaven can do. They were at one point angels. There was this one nun who did many miraculous seeming things and everyone called her a saint but during a near death experience she admitted to having sold her soul to the devil whrn she was younger in order to do those things. And our faith is about more than extraordinary experiences. Our faith should be in God not in his gifts or in his miracles but in himself for who he is because he loves us not for what we do for him but for who we are.
 
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