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Then you haven’t done enough research. Look into the miracles done by saints in the Catholic Church or through their intercession and having been verified by cr

Then you haven’t done enough research. Look into the miracles done by saints in the Catholic Church or through their intercession and having been verified by credible scientists and medical professionals.

NotSammyHagar 7y ago
I have looked into it. I tried hard for a time to find evidence. The church claims miracles that are pretty suspect. Mother Teresa did great things (while also appearing at times to kind of celebrate poverty) but I never saw why it rose to a miracle of god. Look at the stories of people seeing the virgin of guadalupe, then it was kind of converted to being the virgin mary by the church, but why are they never happening where they can be recorded? Same thing with ghosts. I wish there was an afterlife, then my grandparents wouldn't be dead in the ground and ended.
- sdegutis 7y ago
  The biggest miracle of all is the Resurrection of Jesus which was verified by many people including over 500 people who all saw him at once. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence attesting to its historicity. It’s why the Catholic Church even was able to begin! But you bring up a good question: why aren’t these things recorded or seen more publicly? Well, you know the major theory around why spam has so many obvious warning signs like major typos, unprofessional fonts, and silly plots? It’s to filter out everyone but the most gullible and desperate. God uses the same principle. He makes situations where it’s like 99.9% an obvious certainty but leaves 0.1% possibility for doubt, for those people who just don’t want to believe. There’s no shame in using a want to believe as your starting point for investigating it. Check out resources online for the historicity or the Resurrection from a Catholic point of view (the only intellectually satisfying denomination) and you’ll find that it’s so extremely probable to the point of being basically verified.

NotSammyHagar 7y ago

I have looked into it. I tried hard for a time to find evidence. The church claims miracles that are pretty suspect. Mother Teresa did great things (while also appearing at times to kind of celebrate poverty) but I never saw why it rose to a miracle of god. Look at the stories of people seeing the virgin of guadalupe, then it was kind of converted to being the virgin mary by the church, but why are they never happening where they can be recorded? Same thing with ghosts. I wish there was an afterlife, then my grandparents wouldn't be dead in the ground and ended.

sdegutis 7y ago
The biggest miracle of all is the Resurrection of Jesus which was verified by many people including over 500 people who all saw him at once. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence attesting to its historicity. It’s why the Catholic Church even was able to begin! But you bring up a good question: why aren’t these things recorded or seen more publicly? Well, you know the major theory around why spam has so many obvious warning signs like major typos, unprofessional fonts, and silly plots? It’s to filter out everyone but the most gullible and desperate. God uses the same principle. He makes situations where it’s like 99.9% an obvious certainty but leaves 0.1% possibility for doubt, for those people who just don’t want to believe. There’s no shame in using a want to believe as your starting point for investigating it. Check out resources online for the historicity or the Resurrection from a Catholic point of view (the only intellectually satisfying denomination) and you’ll find that it’s so extremely probable to the point of being basically verified.