Miracles
English: Jesus Christ - detail from Deesis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The following statements, one ancient and one modern, are typical of the response people make to the miraculous. “For nothing can happen without cause; nothing happens that cannot happen, and when what was capable of happening has happened, it may not be interpreted as a miracle. Consequently, there are no miracles… . We therefore draw this conclusion: what was capable of happening is not a miracle” (Cicero, De Divinatione , 2. 28, cited by V. van der Loos in The Miracle of Jesus, Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1965, p. 7). “For example, there is the record of the life of Jesus Christ in the Bible. That record contained accounts of events which, in light of the facts of the natural order which were known, could not possibly have happened. “Children are not born to virgins, angels do not bring messages to people, men do not walk on water, people who die do not return to life, and so on.