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    It is not the case that God does not perform miracles

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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