Miracles- impossible?
By Hope
@1hopefulman (45120)
Canada
April 26, 2016 9:00am CST
Is the impossible possible? If I said that I saw a seventeen month old baby read fluently, would you believe me? Would you say that is impossible because you have not seen it? I am 66 years old and if you had told me about it, I would not believe it either.
Why should one say that the miracles in the Bible are impossible and fabricated just because we haven't seen it?
Here are some unbelievable expressions in the Bible:
* Job 42:2 International Standard Version (ISV) 2 “I know that you can do anything and nothing that you plan is impossible.
* Mark 10:27 International Standard Version (ISV) 27 Jesus looked at them intently and said, “For humans it’s impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.”
How did this baby learn to read?
If a baby can do so much, why should anything be a problem for God?
Joke: One man was asked what he thought of Jesus walking on water. His reply: "He can't swim, can he?"
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11 responses
@LadyDuck (471969)
• Switzerland
26 Apr 16
You have a typo at the beginning of your discussion my friend. You wrote " If I said that I saw a seventeen year old baby read fluently, would you believe me?", I suppose you wanted to write 17 months baby. I have heard about "genius" babies, some were musicians, others were able to speak in public like adults.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
26 Apr 16
It could be hereditary and the parents being experts might have stimulated something in her although it's unintentional i would believe
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
Whatever happened, it's unbelievable if we hadn't seen it. We didn't see the miracles recorded in the Bible happen, but we can still believe they happened because of the many incredible things that we actually see happening.
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
26 Apr 16
I have heard that children can read at an very young age. This baby might be one of the youngest..
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
26 Apr 16
@1hopefulman I remember you could read very early. Did your dad teach you?
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
@buenavida Yes, he taught me to read and I could read the newspaper even before I went to any school.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
It seems that the baby can read without being taught.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
26 Apr 16
In kindergarten classes, many babies start to read at 18 or 19 months old. Reading fluently at 17 months is certainly impressive, but I would not tell that it is a miracle.
Personally I believe in miracles : I have been the beneficiary of a little health miracle in the city of Lourdes when I was 6 years old. I remember it perfectly, and somewhere it changed my life.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
It seems to me that the child taught itself to read. The point I am trying to make is that just because we haven't seen something, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not true. The Bible speaks of many miraculous events and there is no sound reason to not believe them.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
2 May 16
@topffer True, and since God is the author of the Bible, with its many miracles, it all comes down to whether we believe Him.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
26 Apr 16
@1hopefulman I follow you on this point. Accepting something that I have not seen for true will depend of the credibility of the person telling it to me.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14351)
• West Haven, Connecticut
26 Apr 16
Lol their is a typo, im like any 17 year old should be able to read but an 17 months is very rare
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
Thanks for pointing out my error! I should have let the baby write the post, she would have done a better job.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14351)
• West Haven, Connecticut
26 Apr 16
@1hopefulman Lol good one jejejej
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
30 Apr 16
The video was probably made with actors and the baby, Elizabeth Barrett, if that is even her real name, is probably a 15 year-old little person and NBC and CNN fell for it. How easily some people can be fooled!
@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
30 Apr 16
@1hopefulman Are you joking or what..?? The baby looks very young, but maybe the voice could be by another older child.. Actors are skilled at imitating any voice..
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
26 Apr 16
That is awesome! Now kids are much smarter at a younger age. When I was a child - I didn't have all of this technology, trends and such! I think it is possible! Example by 4 kids should be potty trained but some even start as little as a year or less than 2 years old! Kids are much more smarter and capable now.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Apr 16
Hhhmmm... How would you change it it to make it clearer?
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@Shavkat (140102)
• Philippines
27 Apr 16
@1hopefulman You can ask the provider of the the source.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
2 May 16
Well said! I have no doubt that all the miracles in the Bible are as reported by faithful, reliable eye-witnesses.
@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
29 Apr 16
Christian faith is predicated on the resurrection of Christ-that is what the Apostolic testimony is concerning, the identify of Christ, the resurrection of that proof, and the Apostles testimony to that. Contrary to what many have thought, there are very rational reasons for that, which certain modern apologists have pointed out, and which even critical scholarship admits, that the Apostles belief in the resurrection happened from their at least beleiving that they had seen Jesus alive again-critical scholarship stops short of saying that as fact, but at least admits the "belief" of that event. The question always remains, why did they believe that? They were either delusional, lying, or they had encountered the resurrected Jesus-that they were delusional is not likely, because we are not talking about one man's witness-that they were lying is also unlikely, because for that many people to have suffered for what they knew to be a lie is a psychological improbability-many rational minds have concieded the latter, that it was a real event. But there is also another witness, as Paul speaks of the Gift of the Holy Spirit, and what a person experiences of God in the Christian life.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
2 May 16
I share your views on this topic and I have no problem in believing the miracles found in the Bible, especially the resurrection. They were willing to even lose their lives because they saw the resurrected Jesus.