3. Are Miracles Possible?,
4. Is the NT True?,
Apologetics,
Book of Acts,
Christianity,
Early Church,
Evidence for God,
Gospel,
historical apologetics,
Jonathan McLatchie,
JonathanMclatchie.com,
miracles,
natural,
supernatural
The book of Acts recounts various miracles performed by Paul and the other apostles, as well as the deacons Stephen and Philip. If it can be shown that these miracle reports substantially represent the testimony of these individuals, then this is an important aspect of the testimony that must be accounted for. For reasons I have discussed at length previously, there is strong reason to believe that the apostles sincerely believed what they claimed. As William Paley puts it, “there is satisfactory evidence that many professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labours, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of those accounts; and that they also submitted, from the same motives,…