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A2 Miracles

Question 1 of 20

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Which of the following are Exodus Miracles?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Staff becomes a Snake

  • 10 Plagues (e.g. Hailstones and death of first-born Egyptian sons)

  • Daniel and the Lions Den

  • The Resurrection

  • The parting of the Red Sea so that the Israelites can escape to safety

  • Jonah and the Whale

  • Jesus raising Lazarus from Death

  • Feeding of the 5000

Explanation

Question 2 of 20

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The Resurrection is the most important miracle to Christians. Why is this? (Select Two)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Proof to Christians that, since Jesus was resurrected to eternal life, we will be too

  • Proof that Jesus is the Messiah; the son of God

  • Proof that there can be supernatural events

  • Proof that Hume is wrong

Explanation

Question 3 of 20

1

In the Gospel accounts it was said that the resurrection has to be literally interpreted: 'If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.'

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

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What do Miracles show about God's attributes?

Select one or more of the following:

  • He loves his creation and can respond to prayers of the faithful

  • He has power over nature, illness and death

  • He is not omniscient

Explanation

Question 5 of 20

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Tillich believed that Miracles are 'Sign Events' (from book 'Systemic Theology'). Such that the seemingly trivial act of turning water into wine is in fact a sign of God's omnipotence. It is in this way that these small miracles can reveal more about God that the larger-scale miracles.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

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Form Critics are those who judge the miracle accounts based on Biblical analysis. What was the view of Rudolf Boltman?

Select one of the following:

  • The Bible could simply be the inspired word of God, the reflections on Religious Experience.

  • The Bible could have been initially told by word-of-mouth and so have been and so may not be accurate - perhaps exaggerated for story telling

  • The Bible should be Demythologised, removing the supernatural elements, to find the true message of God.

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

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Hume described a miracle as 'a transgression of a natural law by a particular volition of the deity'. He accepted the Violation definition however, this does not mean that they actually exist. We are limited to empirical knowledge, otherwise we have to make assumptions without evidence and the laws of nature that are possibly violated are Uniform (constant).

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 20

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Which of the following are Hume's four practical arguments AGAINST the existence of Miracles?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Ineffable (beyond description in ordinary language)

  • There is a single miracle - Creation

  • There are not enough sane and educated witnesses

  • From our natural interest in the unusual, religious people spread their false miracle stories in this good cause

  • It is merely the religious interpretation

  • Miracles are only claimed by the 'ignorant and barbarous nations' and that don't happen as often in modern times. (Before the age of political correctness)

  • The miracle stories in many religions cannot all be true - whilst aiming to prove themselves they cancel each other out.

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

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Modern theologian Maurice Wiles believed in...

Select one of the following:

  • No God + Miracles

  • God + Miracles

  • No God + No Miracles

  • God + No Miracles

Explanation

Question 10 of 20

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Who said that God is only creator and sustainer of the world, not a miracle granter?

Select one of the following:

  • Hume

  • Aquinas

  • Wiles

  • Tillich

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

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With reference to the problem of evil, Flew questioned how God can turn water in to wine but ignore the mass atrocities of Auschwitz.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

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According to Wiles, what do Miracles mean for God? He is _______ or __________.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Arbitrary - based on random choice

  • Not omniscient

  • not existing

  • Partisan - not fair; supportive or biased towards one group (such as the Israelites)

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

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St. Thomas Aquinas believed in...

Select one of the following:

  • No God + No Miracles

  • No God + Miracles

  • God + No Miracles

  • God + Miracles

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

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According to Aquinas, for an event to deserve the title of 'Miracle' it should...

Select one or more of the following:

  • Be beyond human reasoning

  • Be interepreted in a religious way

  • Be intrinsically wonderful

  • Have a cause which is completely unknown

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

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Which of the following are the three ranks of miracles, as set by Aquinas?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Something interpreted in a religious sense, eg. the train stopped in time (Holland's train example)

  • Something done by God which nature could never do, eg. God making the sun and moon stay still so that Joshua and his army could return to camp safely)

  • Something that is a violation of the natural laws, eg. you drop a pencil and it hovers instead of falling due to gravity

  • Something God does that nature can but in a different sequence, eg. walking after being paralysed

  • Something God does that can usually be done by nature, e.g. raining without the elements

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

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Swinburne objected to the violation definition because the laws of nature are only generalisations and can be changed according to new evidence such as miracles.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

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If the natural laws describe the actual chain of events, and so if a miracle violates the natural laws it distrups the actual course of events. This is self-contradictory. This was said by Alistair McKinnon.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

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Which scholar believed that we shouldn't believe in miracles because history tell us that water does not turn into wine and the dead stay dead?

Select one of the following:

  • David Hume

  • Maurice Wiles

  • Paul Tillich

  • Anthony Flew

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

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C.S. Lewis suggested that God, being perfectly good, would use his omnipotence to temporarily suspend the natural laws in response to praying like how a parent relaxes their bounderies in response to the child's pleading.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

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C.S. Lewis separated people into two kinds: Naturalist and Supernaturalists. What does he mean by this?

Select one or more of the following:

  • There are those which believe in the violation definition and those who do not

  • There are those who take a materialistic view and those who take a dualistic view. However, materialism/naturalism is self-defeating because it only assumes that we know for certain that the world is only material. This may not be the case.

  • Some people believe that there are not enough educated witnesses and some who believe that probability lies within the supernatural realm

Explanation

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