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Explain the term “miracle”.
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Sabrina Johnson 10E RE COURSEWORK A miracle is a positively phenomenal, yet significant event, which requires the act of a supernatural being and is conducted for the purpose of conveying a message to an audience. A) i. Explain the term "miracle". Today, different people have different ideas about what a miracle really is. According to an atheist, a miracle is merely no more than an undiscovered natural law (April 14th 1995 PBS program). But the Christian and Jewish religions have their own definition of what a "miracle" is and this is best known in the Bible, where people have written about the happenings of real miracles. In the Bible, words such as dynamis, teras and semeion are words used to describe a miracle. My definition was devised by combining each of these ideas together. In the New Testament, a miracle is described as...
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