Discussion of the Feasibility of Miracles and the Grounds for Christianity
Existing Without Miracles
Kurt Erler
Philosophical Classics
11/11/96
In the following Discussion, I will point out the facts and ideas that
disagree with Hume's ideas. The ideas are the ones on miracles in An Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding involving Section ten Of Miracles. The idea of
this is using the circle philosophical argument. If one agrees that Christians
believe in the Bible, and that miracles have people understand the Bible as Hume
points out, then Christians must believe in miracles. If one takes away any of
these things, the statement does not hold. In this case, the removal of the
Bible is used. Hume confronts the ideas of religion directly by stating that
without the splendor of miracles, Christianity and other beliefs would not
stand. He states that miracles are used to make us believe the scriptures.
This is not true, since from the starts of Christianity there were not always
scriptures. There were pieces of art work done for generations before the texts
were written and after that, they still had to be published. From there, only
the rich were well off enough to afford such a book. In fact, the Gospels were
writ ...