This leads us to making predictions about what will happen in similar cases in the future. ... The crucial point of this analogy is that the train stopping just in time before it hit the boy is a coincidence according to one view but it is a matter of religious significance for the boy's mother. ... According to Tillich a miracle is a 'sign-event', something that has religious significance and therefore tells us something about God. ... Secondly miracles by definition reveal something about God, and that the miraculous event reveals God to people...

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For example, Armstrong describes a boy who is separated from everything familiar, and is pushed into a "new state of consciousness" to train him to hunt in the "sacred manner" (25). ... A religion should not inform one about the clear information of a god. ... Armstrong mentions "A good creation myth did not describe an event in the distant past but told people something essential about the present. ... Armstrong mentions that a religious discourse was only possible to speak in symbolic terms, "Religious discourse was not intended to be understood literally becaus...

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In Rudlofo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima, Antonio is a young boy whose faith is repeatedly challenged by life's circumstances, the actions of people around him, and his ever changing relationship with God. ... When he sees evil repeatedly triumph over good, he questions God's love and ability to know all and see all, considering that "perhaps God was too busy in Heaven to worry or care about us- (187). ...

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Religion is the practice of belief, in most cases identifying to the existence of a divine, transcendent being or beings. The proposals of Plato selected to be discussed will adhere to a general definition that religion is "a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny".1 This w...

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