No miracles in other faiths or religions?

[ltwin]

Very true that Lourdes is a private revelation. But are there subtle levels of revelation? This link in particular has lead to some helpful information.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_revelation

But I’m still curious as to why these revelations are not wholly inherent to Protestantism, more specifically to Islam as well.

Private revelation and miracle testimonies are abundant in Protestantism (both historically in the last 300 years and more recently since the 1900s). You should check out literature in the Pentecostal and charismatic traditions.

 

[Bob_Crowley]

Hi. I enjoyed this post.

How would you explain water into wine?

The grape vine converts water into grape juice by virtue of the sun, water in the soil, carbon dioxide in the air and other trace elements, all very natural.

Then humans use the process of fermentation to produce wine, again using natural procesess, but controlled artificially.

Christ merely sped up the process, doing it all instantaneously.

It was still along the lines of nature. He produced wine, something humans had been doing for centuries before the Wedding at Cana, and have been doing ever since, but it was the best wine of the night.

He didn’t produce some exotic drink consisting of Plutonic rock ice, with a revolving umbrella of tiny Jupiter rings, and a little green man with a stirrer.

 

[punisherthunder]

Private revelation and miracle testimonies are abundant in Protestantism (both historically in the last 300 years and more recently since the 1900s). You should check out literature in the Pentecostal and charismatic traditions.

Any holy sites though?

 

[shayneswenson]

The miraculous claims in faiths other than Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity are not as demonstrable.

 

[shayneswenson]

The miraculous claims in faiths other than Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity are not as demonstrable.

 

[friardchips]

Any holy sites though?

Isn’t Walsingham supposed to be both Catholic and Protestant - St. Simon Stock was Catholic but the two Churches mixed together in that area since ? And also isn’t Canterbury a mix of both Catholic and Protestant heritage?

 

[ltwin]

Any holy sites though?

On the whole, no. We don’t attach that much importance to place, with the exception of the Holy Land, which is full of biblical holy sites.

But there is Azusa Street, Los Angeles, which is where Pentecostalism emerged as a distinct movement. There are people who go there to see where the revival took place.

You also have short term identifications of places where there is an outpouring of God’s Spirit, such as the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola, Florida, during the 1990s. Thousands of people flocked to that one church to receive the anointing that was present in that revival and to carry it back to their home churches.

Another example was the Toronto Airport Vineyard. People flocked there to be healed, etc. and returned to their home churches to replicate the same environment.