Discussion of the View that Healing Miracles do Not Happen Today

Discussion of the View that Healing Miracles do Not Happen Today

A miracle, as we have already discussed, is something supernatural, an

intervention with nature. Some people may find it hard to believe that

they do happen, which is understandable, however faith allows us to

believe that a divine intervention has been made by God. Some find it

difficult to accept how some are miraculously cured and others,

despite their extreme faith, are not. It is not possible to answer

this, as nobody knows what a miracle really is or how it happens, yet

we just have to believe and have faith and maybe someday the questions

will be answered. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder.

Saint Augustan of Hippo once stated that:

"The multiplication of corn in a corn field is just as much a miracle

as the multiplication of the loaves in the desert." He is telling us

that in each scenario, the person being fed at the end of it is a

miracle in itself.

When Jesus worked miracles, people saw him as a very powerful figure.

These people didn't have to see the miracle first hand to know that

Jesus was a special man, just as today, we do not have to know the

miracle to believe in its authenticity. This shows that there is power

at work in the world that spreads the faith around. When we think of a

miracle happening, we see how wonderful everything really is and we

learn how to appreciate how the power is being used to benefit us in

ways we couldn't imagine. The power that we see heals something within

us and this allows us to realise that there is something great and

amazing at work.

To be canonised, a saint must have performed three healing miracles.

The church examines all of the miracles; they must be beyond human or

medical explanation and are then accepted as long as the cured person

does not relapse into their condition again. Catholics believe that

there are such things as miracles because they believe in the Gospel