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To: Gamecock
This sort of argument always gets me.

If you can believe that God Himself incarnated as a man on Earth, born of a virgin, made the lame walk and the blind see, turned water into wine, died and rose from the dead, and ascended bodily into Heaven, that through His apostles He cast out demons and raised the dead, through Moses parted the Red Sea, had people look upon the brass statue of a serpent to heal snakebites, destroyed a city at the blow of trumpets, turned water into blood, made Aaron's rod blossom, etc. etc. etc.....then why is it so impossible to concieve that He might also work a miracle through slips of paper with prayers written by pious believer?

Give us a break. The fact that the writer find "paper pills" so impossibly ridiculous that it alone is supposed to prove the falsehood of the [choose one: Catholic/Roman Catholic/Roman/Romanist/One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic/Holy Mother/Evil, Idolatrous, Mary-Worshipping, Bead-Counting, Halibut-Munching] Church and not all the above listed Biblical miracles only reveals her modernistic cultural biases. At least atheists just go ahead and believe the whole thing is ridiculous, primitive superstition.
163 posted on 05/17/2007 2:57:05 PM PDT by marsh_of_mists
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To: marsh_of_mists
And doctors who hand out placebos? It is superstition that they sometimes work, and by a process unknown to science?
170 posted on 05/17/2007 3:17:45 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: marsh_of_mists; Gamecock
If you can believe that God Himself incarnated as a man on Earth, born of a virgin, made the lame walk and the blind see, turned water into wine, died and rose from the dead, and ascended bodily into Heaven, that through His apostles He cast out demons and raised the dead, through Moses parted the Red Sea, had people look upon the brass statue of a serpent to heal snakebites, destroyed a city at the blow of trumpets, turned water into blood, made Aaron's rod blossom, etc. etc. etc.....then why is it so impossible to concieve that He might also work a miracle through slips of paper with prayers written by pious believer?

Because Christ's resurrection is the only miracle men need since Calvary.

Is it not enough for you?

189 posted on 05/17/2007 4:47:26 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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