Miracles: Religious Significance

Sometimes, miracles appear to be almost without an obvious purpose or significance
1. Dried blood turning to liquid. Legend has it that if the blood fails to liquefy, disaster will follow - this has come true on five occasions
2. Great Hindu Milk Miracle
3. The miracle tomato of Huddersfield
Swinburne - There must be a reason for God to act in a miraculous way and that a miracle must, therefore, have a deep religious significance
Gareth Moore
1. Small boy and the boulder analogy
2. Talking of God performing miracles is pointless because God is not a person
3. When it is claimed that God performed a miracle it is actually the same as saying no one performed the miracle
John Locke
1. Proof that an act is a miracle depends on knowing that the person who performs it is sent by God as his messenger
2. Miracles must act as a witness to a person's mission from God and this must be acknowledged by the observers
3. The definition of a miracle must be seen in a broader context of who performs is and who sees it

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