The Catholic Church would want us to believe all of these 'miracles'
Healing of the leper (Matt 8:2) without any medical knowledge? Leprosy during the period the bible was written/editted was a global term used to descibe many deseases besides what we classically know now as leprosy. It included things which we would probably term STD's for example syphilis. If you know anything about Syphilis you will know that primary and secondary syphilis disappear (as if cured) - unfortunately if left un treated it re appears later on and seriously affects the patients mental state. It is thought that Herod suffered from Syphilis.
The storm stilled (Matt 8:23) no it just died down naturally Agreed
Healing of the two blind men (Matt 9:27-31) impossible Why is it impossible. Surely it depends on what has caused the blindness in the first place - of course the reference to Healing the blind could just as easily be an analogous reference to the process of "initiation" of followers into Jesus's "secret society" of disciples.
Jesus feeds 5,000 (Matt 14:15) with a basket of bread and a few fish. lets say he had 5 loaves, each person would get 0.03% of a loaf (assuming he sliced each one into 30 pieces each) by the time it was handed out it would be mouldy and the fish would have a bit of a pong This sounds like a good party to me. Bear in mind that it was probably a feast for lots of people rather than 5000. I say this on the basis that many people during the gospel period would have been unable to count as far as 5000 anyway. Additionally - would you know what 5000 people looked like
Jesus walks on the sea (Matt 14:25) of course he did, happens every day The fishing boats were quite quick due to the strong winds across lake Galilee - perhaps he was water skiing.
Feeding of the four thousand (Matt 15:32) new one on me, could do with him in famine torn countries right now Not heared of this one either
turning water into wine..... is this for real? Another analogy for initiation perhaps
rising from the dead after hanging on a cross all day.......only way that could happen is if he did not die in the first place. You should have a read of "the jesus scroll" by Donovan Joyce. He gives a remarkably convincing explanation of how this could easily have happened.
ascending into heaven.... so he managed to beat the laws of gravity and lift off skywards, he went through all of the atmospheres some of which burn you to a speck, others have no oxygen and assuming that space is infinite he must still be going? must be freezing without a good coat. Who made the rule that heaven is in space then
What a load of rubbish, the sooner people stop believing all this man made crap that is there to control people (and you would have what control us? ) and make them think in a certain way the better. I am always very dubious of people that claim they have 'seen the light' they always just happened to have been on their own so no backup there.
As Dan said we die and thats it, ( I hope that is not true but I can offer no evidence to the contrary )we rot, simple.
