2007-04-06 06:01:46 · 10 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God works through secondary causes. Consider your question scripturally in terms of the many instances that God works through someone or something worldly to manifest his glory. This culminates, at least for Christians, in the revelation of Christ, in which God acts in the world through a human nature.
Here's another insight that might be helpful. God is not in a competative relationship with his creation. There is nothing in creation that God needs or that God doesn't already possess. God is not diminished in any way by his use of creatures to manifest his power and will. Just because people might see in an individual's holiness, signs and wonders, does not mean, by necessity that God is dishonored or that God is in any way diminished.
The Catholic Church's understanding of a saint's miracle is that the miracle serves as a secondary cause by which God attests to the holiness and salvation of one of his servants. It is not a magical act that the pope accomplished through his own power, but God acted through a pope, to accomplish a sign of his (God's) abiding presence in the world and his relationship to his creation (us).
2007-04-06 06:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A miracle from god? A miracle because "the people" want that old pope to be declared holy, not the other way around. This pope has to become popular by supporting on the popularity of the old one. It's holy popes-politics, but not from very high level. It's about the polls. Yet another case of obvious religious delusion of the people.
2007-04-06 06:08:43 · answer #2 · answered by Caveman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, you answered your own question. He is the closest man to GOD on earth, Do you think he is not going take credit. I,m not Catholic, so to keep the people in his favor I think it is wrong to chose what he miracles are real or not. Miracles happen everyday and your right What gives THE POPE the right to take credit for them, especially since he only chooses the ones the would benefit him.
2007-04-06 06:14:31 · answer #3 · answered by BECKY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perfect Catholics comprehend God works miracles through human beings. it really is not the guy themself operating the miracle. God can opt for to artwork a miracle through everybody at each and each and every time. Biblical and historic precedent maintains to illustrate that God works miracles through rather holy human beings. i comprehend the human sinner you're refering to is the previous due Pope John Paul II. at the same time as you spot no longer some thing more advantageous than a undemanding sinner, he's loved to Catholics global and, because the miracle demonstrates, is favored by technique of God besides. Catholics venerate and honor saints, and rightly so. this isn't a similar issues as worship.
2016-12-03 09:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by kasee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im Catholic so i believe in saints
It all depends on how much faith you put into that prayer these saints are believed to be sent by God so God is still being credited personally i pray to La Virgen De Guadalupe and shes helped me alot to find my way through life
2007-04-06 06:29:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am assuming your talking about that nun in France who credits praying to JP2 and being cured of Parkinsons.
and I don't have an answer for you. I don't understand the whole praying to saints or in this case a saint-to-be.
2007-04-06 06:05:58 · answer #6 · answered by Sister blue eyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume that you are talking about a dead Pope. You got me.
2007-04-06 06:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God only can give assistance, praying to a dead person does nothing
2007-04-06 06:05:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know right?
2007-04-06 06:06:36 · answer #9 · answered by dana6463 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
: )
2007-04-06 06:14:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋