Miracles

Question 1

C.S.Lewis

Answer 1

Said that the incarnation is the central miracle for Christianity, all other miracles are related to this. Miracles are a type of revelation.

Question 2

Bultmann (miracles are mythological)

Answer 2

Said all miracles are ‘mythological’. He believed that miracle stories were expressions relevant to the question of existence confronting everyone.

Question 3

William Barclay

Answer 3

Believes that Jesus did indeed perform miracles, after all a big proportion of the life story of Jesus in the gospels deals with miracles. Therefore reliability is enhanced.

Question 4

Bultmann

Answer 4

Claims that miracles of Jesus were invented to make Jesus appear as powerful and great as the other ‘so called’ wonder workers of the ancient world.