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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Doesn't really matter if it has little to do with his teachings.
In fact I would say you'd be in the extreme minority to suggest that Jesus didn't actually perform miracles. It would actually call into question the entire validity of the text.
And I must admit I'm a little confused by your posts as well, if Jesus did not perform miracles (as you don't really believe yourself), wouldn't that lend more credence to people 'worshiping at the alter of science' as you so put it?
Wouldn't that favor a naturalist explanation of the Universe and the world we live in?
It just seems those 2 points you are trying to make are in conflict.
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It depends on what question you are asking. If you are looking for someone to fix all your problems than miracles sound pretty good or if you are fearful of dying the promise of afterlife looks pretty good.
I instead ask the question, what is this life, what is this existence? Miracles and promises don't help with this question as I need an answer that gives me peace in the present. The search for peace came from my heart, it isn't something I've been taught and the answer also comes from my heart.
I've found if I read the Bible in this way, I find many passages pertaining to my way of understanding although I don't make a practise of reading it, I have read it and come across sayings from it now and than and don't find any conflict with what I find pertinent. Miracles, the afterlife, and morality I don't find that pertinent.
I brought this up in another discussion. There was this behaviourist who did experiments with chickens. He put the chicken in a cage with a bar to press for the chicken to receive food. The chicken would get hungry and start thrashing around and in his panic might accidentally hit the bar. Miracles and promises of an afterlife are just the chicken thrashing around.
As for an explanation of the universe, I believe what science says and the only clue I have is that the peace I do experience puts me in touch with this energy. Since energy can be neither created or destroyed maybe this explains an aspect of god and how he shaped this universe. Really though this is just a guess and as I've said not the important question.