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“Assess Hume’s reasons for rejecting miracles.”  

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"Assess Hume's reasons for rejecting miracles." A miracle is held to be an action of God, or an invisible agent, which goes against the laws of nature and has some religious meaning or significance. Miracles have traditionally been taken as validations of religious claims. As the Christians believe in the Bible they say that the miraculous signs and wonders they see testifies that it was God working through him accompanied Jesus' ministry. His resurrection from the dead is seen to be the greatest of these miracles and even till this day it is regularly taken as a sold reason for believing in the existence of God. According to Hume no matter how strong the evidence for a specific miracle maybe, it will always be more reasonable to reject the miracle than to believe in it .He distinguished that there are two factors to consider in deciding whether to believe any...

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