Concept
Miracles of Jesus
Overview
The miracles of Jesus are the many miraculous deeds attributed to Jesus in Christian texts, with the majority of these miracles being faith healings, exorcisms, resurrections, and control over nature.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus is said to have performed seven miraculous signs that characterize his ministry, from changing water into wine at the start of his ministry to raising Lazarus from the dead at the end.
For many Christians and Muslims, the miracles are believed to be actual historical events. Others, including many liberal Christians, consider these stories to be figurative.
Since the Age of Enlightenment, many scholars have taken a highly skeptical approach to claims about miracles. There is less agreement on the interpretation of miracles than in former times, though there is a scholarly consensus that the Historical Jesus was viewed as a miracle-worker during his lifetime. Non-religious historians commonly avoid commenting on the veracity of miracles as the sources are limited and considered problematic. Some scholars rule out miracles altogether while others defend the possibility, either with reservations or more strongly (in the latter case commonly reflecting religious views).
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Again, it belongeth to the nature of a Miracle, that it be wrought for the procuring of credit to Gods Messengers, Ministers, and Prophets, that thereby men may know, they are called, sent, and employed by God, and thereby be the better inclined to obey them. And therefore, though the creation of the world, and after that the destruction of all living creatures in the universall deluge, were admirable works; yet…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Thus the giving the keys of a granary is understood to be the delivery of the corn contained in it: The giving of stone and earth represents the delivery of a manor. This is a kind of superstitious practice in civil laws, and in the laws of nature, resembling the Roman catholic superstitions in religion. As the Roman catholics represent the inconceivable mysteries of the Christian religion, and render them more…
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
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Though the Being to whom the miracle is ascribed, be, in this case, Almighty, it does not, upon that account, become a whit more probable; since it is impossible for us to know the attributes or actions of such a Being, otherwise than from the experience which we have of his productions, in the usual course of nature. This still reduces us to past observation, and obliges us to compare the instances of the violation…
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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Related ideas
- Erasmus
- Belief
- Jesus
- Gospel of Luke
- Gospel of Matthew
- Gospel of John
- Heracles
- Jesus Seminar
- Jerusalem
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Metaphor
- Superstition
- Nature
- Philosophy of religion
- Pythagoras
- Resurrection of Jesus
- Will Durant
- Thomas Jefferson
- Transfiguration of Jesus
- Age of Enlightenment
- Quran
- Reformation
- Polemic
- Hellenistic period
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophical skepticism.