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    God does not perform miracles — Carmelics
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    God does not perform miracles

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    • 1.There are not, and cannot be, any departures from the necessary course of nature
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    • 2.A miracle would require God or Nature to act against itself
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    • 3.For God or Nature to act against itself is absurd
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    • 1.Divine omnipotence, as articulated by Aquinas and Descartes, entails that God is not bound by the natural order God created.
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    • 2.A necessary course of nature is a contingent product of divine will, which God retains the power to suspend or override.
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    • 3.Therefore, miracles are not God acting against itself, but God exercising sovereign freedom over a self-imposed natural order.
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    • 1.Hume's evidential framework allows miracles to be assessed empirically as violations of established natural law, without presupposing modal necessity.
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    • 2.If natural laws are descriptive regularities rather than metaphysically necessary truths, their occasional violation involves no logical absurdity.
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    Nor does God perform miracles, since there are no, and cannot be, departures whatsoever from the necessary course of nature. This would be for God or Nature to act against itself, which is absurd. The belief in miracles is due only to ignorance of the true causes of phenomena.
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