Archived (((The Problem With Miracles - Sam Harris))) (youtube.com)
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Archived (((The Problem With Miracles - Sam Harris))) (youtube.com)
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[–] PeaceSeeker 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's explicitly mentioned in the Bible in order to emphasize the importance of faith.
You're (if I may say so) overly analytic mind deprives you of the ability to appreciate the essence of man's nature, which is corporeal as well as spiritual, thus justifying the existence of what might seem to you merely cartoonish simply because they are so blatantly corporeal / visible. There are very good reasons that this physical manifestation and visible miracles should play a part in the whole story.
God didn't send His son to do miracles for the angels, or become Incarnate so He could sacrifice His body for the angels, because the angels lack bodies and senses of that sort to begin with. They are pure intellects. Plus, because of an angel's nature, by sinning they were immediately condemned once and forever, whereas man has at least some time to make mistakes and repent insofar as his corporeal life continues.
The Eucharist isn't technically necessary for salvation, although the grace it dispenses is incomparable, so this first sentence isn't that outrageous. The others are. They really amount to the same thing: the Trinity - that God has a Son, and also the Holy Spirit. This does not violate the simplicity of God so He remains one. It is precisely the Trinity that helped reconcile the Aristotelian conception of God as a merely final cause, never interacting with the world nor having any reason to. The Trinity does not separate the oneness of God, but explains how He can be both the final cause and the efficient cause of all creation; that He can have an Image of Himself which He Loves and uses for conveying His Word to creation.
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