tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7247916963316361823..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Two steps to Christianity; two ways of Not being a ChristianBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-58683201698336114812019-02-04T16:59:46.033+00:002019-02-04T16:59:46.033+00:00@BB - My assumption is that since modern mainstrea...@BB - My assumption is that since modern mainstream people have no difficulty whatsoever in rejecting the validity of the Fatima miracle - which was seen by thousands; that any and every miracle is deniable and will be denied. Miracles are 'known' to be impossible by assumption, and there's an end on it! Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-25769388704087440492019-02-04T16:43:10.755+00:002019-02-04T16:43:10.755+00:00The signs I received were incredibly direct and sp...The signs I received were incredibly direct and specific so that I don’t know how I could have denied it although you are probably right that many would have. It would have been good to document it with witnesses but the details and circumstances were personal and embarrassing since it involved my sin.BruceBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64445712724581749332019-02-04T12:35:20.983+00:002019-02-04T12:35:20.983+00:00@BB - So, presumably you were ready to acknowledge...@BB - So, presumably you were ready to acknowledge that the sign was a sign, and not a coincidence or illusion or something.<br /><br />For the modern mind, it is habitual to explain-away everything actual or possible in a materialistic, random/ determined framework - so that (for most people, most of the time) all signs are pre-neutralised: all potential signs are already known Not to be signs. <br /><br />My conversion was clinched by answered prayers/ everyday miracles - but I needed to be (metaphysically) pre-prepared to acknowledge that *that* was what they were. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-51905764676549159592019-02-04T12:11:21.439+00:002019-02-04T12:11:21.439+00:00For me what happened was God sent me very direct, ...For me what happened was God sent me very direct, visible signs that he sees my sin. Maybe this is what I needed. I am a naturally skeptical person, not prone to seeing signs in everything around me.BruceBnoreply@blogger.com