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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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subjective, but from without us, objective, or, if I<br />

may so say, in all that daim to be universal<br />

religions (catholic thinking),, But, to my mind, <strong>the</strong><br />

evidential value <strong>of</strong> miracles (as frequently set<br />

fortih in <strong>the</strong>se volumes) lies not in what, without<br />

intending <strong>of</strong>fence, I may call <strong>the</strong>ir barely supernaturalistic<br />

aspect, but in this, that <strong>the</strong>y are <strong>the</strong><br />

manifestationB <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> miraculous, in <strong>the</strong> widest<br />

sense, as <strong>the</strong> essential element in revealed<br />

religion. Miracles are <strong>of</strong> chief evidential value,<br />

not in <strong>the</strong>mselves, but as instances <strong>and</strong> pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

direct communication between Heaven <strong>and</strong> earth.<br />

And such direct communication is, at least, <strong>the</strong><br />

postulate <strong>and</strong> first position in all religions. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

all present to <strong>the</strong> worshipper some medium <strong>of</strong><br />

personal communication from Heaven to earth—<br />

some prophet or o<strong>the</strong>r channel <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Divine—-<strong>and</strong><br />

some msdium for our communication with Heaven.<br />

And this is <strong>the</strong> fundamental principle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

miraculous as <strong>the</strong> essential postulate in all religion<br />

that purposes again to bind man to Qod. It<br />

proceeds on <strong>the</strong> tw<strong>of</strong>old principle that<br />

communication must first come to man from

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