MIRACLES, WHAT DO THEY PROVE?
John
Stone
Miracles play a very important role in
Christianity. The New Testament contains
accounts of many miracles accredited to Jesus and later to his followers. Strangely,
Judaism warns against “false prophets” who perform miracles, but has it
miracles too, a few examples are: a man living inside a big fish for 72 hour; Moses
parting the sea (Exodus 14:26 (Jonah 1:17); Elijah diving the waters; Elijah
riding to heaven in a chariot of fire with horses of fire (2 Kings 2:8-12). [An
aside, Jewish miracles as opposed to Christian, more often involve the Jewish "Invisible Man in the Sky" engaged
in mass killing of children, women and men to save faithful Jews.]
The Christian gospels have a long record of
miracles performed by Jesus, starting with a simple parlor trick, turning water
into wine (something Dionysus, another mythological god, did). Jesus was known
for his control over the power of death, as he brought people back to life. In
the four gospels, no fewer than 232 miracles are reported. Of the 661 verses in
Mark, 209 deal with miraculous doings.
One third of Mark’s gospel deals with miraculous events. John only reports of seven miraculous doings,
but uses the word “sign” 17 times. To put things into a proper perspective,
Jesus' miracles were of a helpful and healing nature, contrasted to the oft
angry Hebrew god. To make things more confusing, Christians claim Jesus was
this same god ― Invisible Man in
the Sky ― incarnate. In other words Abrahamic derivative religions'
gods all have different faces and dispositions ― Jesus, Hashem, Allah.
The Jewish and Muslim god will kill people in an instant; Jesus never killed
anyone, but did ask his disciples to do so (Luke 19:27).
The Christian gospels cite the miraculous acts of
Jesus as proof of his alleged divinity.
Each miracle performed by Jesus was designed to reveal that Jesus held
the power of god to perform such works, illustrating not only supernatural
powers and divine authorization, but also his own divinity. Luke
wrote in Acts,
“You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the
midst of you” (Luke 2:22).
In the gospel of John;
“Then said
Jesus unto him, except you see signs and wonders you will not believe in me?”
(John 4:48).
Mark said,
“And these signs shall follow them that believe”
(Mark
The more fabulous the miracle, the more credibility
it lent to the one whom performed it.
John again wrote,
“Many believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did”
(John
“When Christ comes will he do more miracles than these which this man
hath done?” (John 7:31).
Mark had Jesus saying,
“And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they
cast out devils…” (Mark
As a result of this emphasis on the supernatural,
Christianity, especially as told by Catholics, has become enslaved to miracle
stories. Whereas Jews are enslaved to their god's "miraculous mass murders"
to save themselves from so-called evil children, women and men.
The gospel of John ends by saying,
“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if
they should written every one, I suppose, even the world itself could not
contain the books that should be written” (John
Even
today, any miracle story gets front page coverage. Have you ever wondered why all these stories supposedly relate to
Jesus or Mary? The story of Jesus’ first miracle of turning water into wine is
well known. The Church chose to
celebrate this event every January 6th. What the church doesn’t want you to know is
that for many years before Jesus, the 6th
of January had been a pagan feast in memory of “Dionysus,” a pagan god, who had
turned water into wine. Thus, Jesus’
first miracle was but an old trick of a pagan god. Nothing new! Conversely, every Saturday
evening Jews set a place setting, with chair, at the Sabbath table for Elijah whose
return is said to precede the Hebrew messiah,
Baptism
and the Lord’s Supper, the two sacraments recognized in all Christian
denominations, are thoroughly imbued (to inspire with principles and emotions)
with miracle elements. The Catholic miracle of baptism is believed to clean the
newborn from “original sin” and its Communion is regarded as the establishment
of a direct physical bonding between the believers and Jesus. Many scholars
define this with Human Sacrifice.
Hundreds
of years before Jesus, the Persian religion of Mithraism, named after its
founder, Mithras, also believed in baptism by water and celebrated a “last
supper” with his 12 disciples. They
believed by drinking the blood of the bull and eating its flesh there would be
a direct bonding between the believers and Mithras. There are even paintings of this event in a
church in
Again, to put things into perspective, for 30
centuries Jews have believe in miracles that were recorded in the Hebrew
Bible. Elijah
and Elisha were powerful enough to arrest and change the course of
nature itself, because they too brought people back from death and the grave (1
Kings
A few more examples of miracles found in Hebrew Scripture
are as follows:
Joshua, through God, having
superpowers, separated the
Moses, through God,
separated the
Moses made miraculous happenings, such as the Ten
Plagues that he and Aaron showed the Egyptian Pharaoh, and when Moses asked God
to send Manna from heaven to feed the Israelites.
Moses even sweetened the waters of Marah because it
was too bitter to drink (Exodus
Moses also saved the Israelites from fiery serpents
(Numbers 21:9).
Miracles are nothing new in Judaism.
The miracles of Daniel’s
furnace (Daniel
More miracles are the pregnancies of Sarah, Rachel, Rebekkah, Samson’s mother Manoah, Hannah and the Shunammite woman, who were all
barren women. Don't forget the Pharaoh's sorcerers who also turned their staffs
into snakes just like Aaron did.
MIRACLES? NO BIG DEAL. Other peoples and their gods performed
them all the time.
Accepting as living realities the heathen gods and their miracles,
Father Origen argues
that the Hebrews must have had genuine miracles because the heathens had many
from their gods, which were, however, only devils; that the Hebrews viewed.
“with contempt all those who were considered as gods by the heathen” as not
being gods, but demons, ‘For all the gods of the nations are demons’ (Ps, xcvi,
5). ...
In the next place, miracles were performed in
all countries, or at least in many of them, as Celsus himself
admits, instancing the case, of Aesculapius, who conferred benefits on many,
and who foretold future events to entire cities,”—citing instances. If there
had been no miracles among the Hebrews “they would immediately have gone over
to the worship of those demons which gave oracles and performed cures.” (Contra
Celsum, III, ch. ii-iii; ANF. iv, 466.) The heathen oracles were indeed
inspired and true, but were due to a loathsome form of demoniac inspiration, which
he thus—(with my own polite omissions)—describes:
{131} “Let it be granted that the
responses delivered by the Pythian and other oracles were not the utterances of
false men who pretended to a divine inspiration; but let us see if, after all,
that they may be traced to wicked demons,—to spirits which are at enmity with
the human race. ... It is said of the Pythian priestess, that when she sat down
at the mouth of the Castalian cave, the prophetic spirit of Apollo entered her
private parts; and when she was filled with it, she gave utterance to responses
which are regarded with awe as divine truths. Judge by this whether that spirit
does not show its profane and impure nature.” (Contra Cetsum, VII, iii;
ANF. iv, 611-612). ... “It is not, then, because Christians cast insults
upon demons that they incur their revenge, but because they drive them away out
of the images, and from the bodies and souls of men.” (Ib. c. xliii, p. 655
)
The bottom line; miracles show that ALL Abrahamic
Derivative Religions (ADR) are a hoax ― just fabricated fiction.
"Donkeys Can Talk, People Can Fly and a Man Named Jesus Lives Up in
the Sky!" -Reverend Deacon Fred, Landover Baptist Church
DISCLAIMER:
Citation of Hebrew scripture and
sources in articles or analyses is not in any way an acceptance, approval or
validation of the Jewish religion, its works or scriptures. The Hebrew bible, like the Christian New Testament, is
fictitious; From a 6-day creation
of the universe; a cunning, walking, talking snake; big fish tales; world flood
and an "Invisible Man in the Sky" ― it is all fiction, a bold sham perpetrated on mankind.
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