I guess, believe that miraculous things happen but they’re brought about by people’s latent psychic powers or something, but that’s pretty far from any religion’s account of these things.
When it comes to established religions that might be true. On the other hand the “The Secret” style New Age ideology solves things that way. It makes it much easier for them to pick and choose from a lot of separate frameworks.
Sure. But it doesn’t sound as if Aiyen is seriously considering the possibility that that sort of New Age ideology might be correct. If his/her question is about (say) evangelical Christianity versus scientific naturalism, then explanations of miracles in terms of latent psychic powers don’t increase the credibility of Christianity.
I think that looking at a variety of different belief systems shows how bad Christianity actually is. It underlies that there little reason to prefer Christianity over alternative belief systems.
That was part of what I was trying to point out by observing that if the evidence for Christian miracles impresses you, you should probably be comparably impressed by the evidence for miracles from any number of other sources.
When it comes to established religions that might be true. On the other hand the “The Secret” style New Age ideology solves things that way. It makes it much easier for them to pick and choose from a lot of separate frameworks.
Sure. But it doesn’t sound as if Aiyen is seriously considering the possibility that that sort of New Age ideology might be correct. If his/her question is about (say) evangelical Christianity versus scientific naturalism, then explanations of miracles in terms of latent psychic powers don’t increase the credibility of Christianity.
I think that looking at a variety of different belief systems shows how bad Christianity actually is. It underlies that there little reason to prefer Christianity over alternative belief systems.
That was part of what I was trying to point out by observing that if the evidence for Christian miracles impresses you, you should probably be comparably impressed by the evidence for miracles from any number of other sources.