Brief Overview: This section focuses on “miracles” performed by Jesus, some 2,000 years ago, sometimes referred to as "signs" . While these events were carefully recorded in the New Testament Bible, there are also numerous non-Biblical references to these events. To discover more about these 40 Signs, CLICK on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
Dark Side Disclaimer: These quotes reveal a clear contrast with Christian belief. Could rejecting God’s gift in Jesus align you with these individuals, leaving no room to ‘straddle the fence’?
"Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years. Their reputation for truth and veracity in the neighborhood where they resided is wholly unknown to us. Give us a new miracle, and substantiate it by witnesses who still have the cheerful habit of living this world. ... We demand a new miracle, and we demand it now. Let the church furnish at least one, or forever hold her peace."
The happy do not believe in miracles.
No gods, no masters.
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order, do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
All biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
Jesus Christ”who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens”can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Sensible men no longer believe in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
"Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans."
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
You're asking the right questions, and now you want to dig a little deeper.
