3. Miracles: Aquinas
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- Created on: 18-06-17 10:26
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- 3. Miracles: Aquinas
- Miracles are "those things...which are done by Divine power apart from the order generally followed in things"
- "those events in which something is done by God that nature could never do"
- "events in which God does something which nature can do, but not in that order"
- "when God does what is usually done by the working of nature, but without the operation of the principles of nature"
- He also considered whether God could change past events, and rejects this as illogical:
- It is a paradox; if God did change it we would not be able to know at all
- It is impossible that a past event did not take place as we know it to have happened
- Criticism
- If God is acting within natural law, how do we know a miracle was performed?
- Strength
- Explains how God can interact with the world
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