Would it be true to say that miracles require faith in God and Jesus?
Agree:
Faith is always necessary for healing in the gospelThe teachings of Jesus and the apostles. - we can see this every time Jesus healed someone. It was their faith in Jesus that made people well – eg a woman with severe bleeding showed faith and her faith saved her.
Prayer strengthens a person’s belief, allowing miracles to happen.
Miracles take place today when we have faith - eg there have been 69 certified cures in Lourdes (a small town in France where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared).
Disagree:
Miracles strengthen faith. Therefore the miracle has to happen first and then a person will trust and have faith (although some may find it hard to accept that miracles happen and consider it to be luck or a coincidence).
Having great faith does not mean miracles always happen.
Miracles still happen today
Agree:
People have been written off by doctors who say that they only have a certain length of time to live. Yet some of these people have made a full recovery.
There have been 69 cases in Lourdes where science and medicine cannot explain why the person has made a full recovery. These people have been healed because of their faith in the miraculous water of Lourdes.
Disagree:
Only doctors can cure us. It’s a waste of money going to somewhere like Lourdes expecting a miracle cure, because they just don’t happen.
People today do not place any importance on religion anymore so they don’t have faith or pray, therefore miracles can’t happen.
