Jesus miracle or magic a test of faith and skepticism?

Question

So the miracles of Christ have been touted by many professional magicians as fraud. They base this on the fact that every miracle the bible reports could be done as a trick. Yes even raising the dead. Scientists since the age of reason have given many scientific explanations for every miracle of the bible. However is that reasonable. Is it scientific to rule out the possibility of the unknown? If something has an explanation in illusion or science does that negate a reasonable possibility of something beyond current reason. Skeptics use reality as their grounds and the spiritual use faith. How does realism or faith answer what is not yet known? When confronted with faith or skepticism how do you answer the unknown or seemingly impossible.

CVO??? No not even close. Not in any translation in Exodus anywhere. The magicians of Egypt also performed magic. Each time they did God's was greater. The staff's into snakes ect. Then Pharoah's heart would harden.Exodus 7:11"Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments."
However that was not even the question asked! Again in simple terms when faced with the unknown how do you answer? With irrelevant miss-quoted scripture it would seem.
To every one else this is not for against god it is about the question of facing the unknown....faith...science....all of the above. I have stated others arguments and asked a question what do YOU do?

Answer 1

Just because an act can be shown to be duplicated with conventional science as a hoax - this does not mean that that is so.

Is giving an explanation a reasonable thing for science to do?
Essentially that is its purpose.

There is no direct contact with reality - at best we have a veiled reality, reality cloaked in our own interpretations. i.e. we must assume certain things exist only because we cannot directly experience them - radio for instance,

Science tries to answer "How?". Religion tries to answer "Why?".

However, many scientists have become so emmeshed in their belief of science they become unwilling to accept things not presently explained in science. That is not what science is.

Answer 2

It's reasonable to accept the better answer.

There haven't been any miracles that can't be explained through human nature and the brain's interpretation of vague events, or just outright hoaxes.

Sorry, but some god doing magic stuff is not the better answer. Sure, anything is possible. It could be that there are fairies flitting around with magic wands causing all kinds of mischief. However, the facts support a simpler cause.

Answer 3

The miracles of Jesus are not his alone. Healers have been the objects of stories long before Jesus and continued long after. Many of them were called witches and heathens and their work demonic sorcery, but they did no different than Jesus.

Some of his more famous miracles are still being performed today: chiropractors in particular have given sight to the blind and "made the lame to walk," even made sterile people able to conceive. Jesus is hardly a special case.

I do believe he was an incredible man and has inspired many people for thousands of years to better themselves and in many ways have brought people together. There will always be people who take the miracles of Jesus and use it to hate, discriminate, and further their own agendas, but those are hardly exclusive to Jesus either.

Case in point, Jesus was a miracle worker and a wonderful guy - but no different than all the other miracle workers throughout history. I do not believe they were tricks, but nor do I believe any of the other healers used tricks.

Answer 4

Wake up and smell the roses. The unknown doesn't prove that there is a god!

Answer 5

What you wrote is exactly what the Pharaoh's magicians said to Moses.

Answer 6

i predict the fall of the USSR and I will tear down the Berlin wall. see how easy it it to fulfill prophesy and accomplish a miracle?