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It is an undeniable fact that there are many times when Christians ask God for things in prayer and do not receive them. This fact is often referred to as the problem of “unanswered” prayer. Antichristian skeptics try to use this problem to argue that the Christian God is not real. Why Are Many Prayers … Read more
In the first part of this series, I argued that there is no good reason to believe that miracles are impossible. In the second part, I presented a brief synopsis of the evidence that miracles happen. In this post, I will respond to some of the common objections to accepting eyewitness testimony to miracles. Hume … Read more
In the first part of this series, I argued that there is no good reason to believe that miracles are impossible. If it is possible that God and/or other supernatural beings exist, then it must be at least possible that these supernatural beings sometimes cause miraculous events. But do they? Do we have any good … Read more
In one of my very first posts on this blog, I made The Historical Case for the Resurrection of Jesus. There, I noted that unless one already believes that miracles can and do happen, one is unlikely to find the historical evidence for Jesus’s resurrection convincing, and I briefly pointed to some of the evidence … Read more