Miracles: a Preliminary Study (C. Lewis Signature Classic) (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)

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Actually, I believe that the best way to get started with the teachings of ACIM is to start with other books. Since too many of the examples above seem implausible to me as pure coincidence, particularly cumulatively, I prefer a different hypothesis: a personal God ready and able to heal, but one who also often allows created nature to take its own course and who is not manipulated by formulas, as perhaps an impersonal or merely psychological force could be.

Tim Stafford puts the right person at the center of miracle stories: not the charismatic leader through whom miracles come, nor the person who is healed, but God himself. Keener then picks up his second thesis in part four, where he discusses several proposed explanations for such accounts. Neverless, for anyone seeking to understand how the New Testament deals with the miraculous, and seeking to understand such phenomena from our own cultural perspective, this is an invaluable work.

The reason for this is that their "sins" are merely projections of our ego, reflecting our perceived state of separation from other people–those feared "competitors" who wish us harm.

And those rare instances where she outclasses the other members of this cast, it is because she has a natural gift, a talent, which none other possess. First, it is difficult to wade through the cumbersome prose, and I consider myself well-read and -educated. An extraordinary book to discover incredible facts that have been told through the paintings collected in these pages.I am talking about body parts regrowing quickly in public view, goiters disappearing quickly in public view, blindness cured, deafness cured, broken bones being healed nearly instantly and being confirmed by X-rays, and the raising of the dead. A Course in Miracles was written as a collaborative venture between Schucman and William ("Bill") Thetford. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Much of the book is a compilation of miracle accounts the author has come across from his social circles (the accounts primarily involve healings but there are a few nature miracles and the appendices address exorcisms). She said that on October 21, 1965, an "inner voice" told her: "This is a Course in Miracles, please take notes.