@residentreformr@whitemagemaxing@Catholic_bro Peter’s Shadow (Acts 5:15–16): and Paul’s Handkerchiefs and Aprons (Acts 19:11–12) are both relics and God performed miracles through both. Obviously they’re not bodily relics, but I think the principal of God acting through relics holds in both the old and New Testament.
@residentreformr You’re a culturally deracinated protestant whose iconoclastic religion disenchants the world in such a way that it culminates in materialistic atheism.
@Protestia 1. Isn’t the opening chapter of John’s Gospel logos theology?
2. Why does he think logos theology post-dates Christianity when Philo of Alexandria held to a logos theology?
@ArthurTbnd@romlib_@morallawwithin@Josh20Left Maybe that’s true or maybe it isn’t but the vast majority of the well documented (by doctors) medical miracles come from Catholicism. Miracles that are not well documented are less of evidently convincing because they’re easy to fake.
@romlib_@morallawwithin@Josh20Left “if i imagine a triomni god generically, behaving this way seems very bizarre.” Yes, that is why it is interesting that most of the healing miracles happen because someone prayed to the Catholic God in particular.
@romlib_@Josh20Left The claim is that eyes have been regrown and clubbed feet have been miraculously made normal. If there is strong empirical evidence for these things happening. The objection that “why would a God do that?” kind of falls flat.
@aaboblin@ShamelessPopery You sound like one of those reformed Calvinist, who argue that atheist really believe in a God and are just pretending not to.
@5Solas If Catholicism isn’t Christianity, then there were long periods of time in which Christianity did not exist between the death of Jesus and the present.
@romlib_@Josh20Left I don’t know, man. It seems like if someone who had a clubfoot was suddenly healed of their clubfoot without any explanation of how that happened after praying to a saint, that would be pretty good evidence of something.
@FudgeSmith111@romlib_ I’m not a theist, but I will admit that there are a lot of very good arguments for the existence of God. Just none that fully convince me.