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Originally Posted by Theodoric
As we're discussing miracles in the context of Christianity may I raise the interesting point that Protestants stopped believing in miracles occurring after Biblical times whilst Catholics didn't. So, which side is right? For someone to be canonised, I believe that the Catholic church requires at least 2 proven miracles.
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Theo, forgive me if I'm wrong but posts you've made in past 'religious' threads lead me to believe that your understanding of the non-Roman Catholic Church comes almost exclusively from a Calvinistic perspective. As a matter of fact, miracles are alive and well in a great many of the the 'non-conformist' denominations. It's only really the Calvinist denominations (for e.g., the Reformed Church, the Plymouth Bretheren and the Free Church of Scotland) that go in for what we call a 'ceasationist' doctrine. The principal difference between us and the RCs is that we recognise the work of God in the lives of ordinary people without feeling the need to then elevate those people to the exalted status of 'sainthood'. In any case, the Bible is clear that all believers are 'saints'.