Expert: Marco - 1/16/2007

Question
Hello Marco!

I'm trying to understand, what to make of these televangelists who promote miracle spring water that people order and claim to heal illness/recieve money from.... or are healed from illness when they come to the front of the televised church and are touched by these "pastors"

My first instinct is to beleive that the only people who could do thses types of miracles would be, 1) Jesus 2) the Aposostles back in the day. That these televised programs are phoney, money scams/show select people are healed simply by faith and will of God, then show a pastor doing something crazy to them to get converts??

What should I make of thses random people claiming to do miracles, almost as though they are trying to immitate Jesus--one "pastor", I read, even tried to walk on water-which ended fataly.

-JT

Answer
Dear JT,

I believe that in most cases these "miracles" are only frauds.
It is very easy to pretend to be ill and thn be healed.

Your brother in Christ,

Marco
I think that faith cannot come only from logic, because to have faith in God means to trust and love God.
I think however that logics and science prove the existence of our soul and the existence of  God and that there are many rational arguments strongly supporting the christian faith.
The explanation of these aguments is rather long and Allexperts allows only to give short answers. You can find such arguments  in the following site

http://xoomer.alice.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

where  I analyse the incongruencies of the materialistic conception of the mind, on the basis of our present scientific knowledges about brain and matter.
This analysis points out how the laws of physics  prove that the   brain cannot generate consciousness, which existence implies  the presence in man of a unbiological/unmaterial element. The problem of consciousness is then strictly connected to the one of the existence of the soul and, consequently, the existence of God.
In the first article entitled “Mind and brain...” you can find a general discussion of the mind and brain problem from a scientific point of view.
In the second article entitled “Scientific contraddictions in materialism”
you  can find an explanation of the fundamental inconsistencies of  the  typical arguments used by materialists, such as the concept of emergent, macroscopic or holist property, complexity, information, etc.
In the section called “FAQ: answers to  visitors' questions” you can find the answer to many typical questions, such as "Are there any scientifically proved miracles?", "Does the existence of the universe imply the existence of God?", "Can science explain God?", "Can science establish which is the true religion?", "Can science explain consciousness in the future?", and many others.

I hope this may help,

please ask again if you should need some clarifications,

Your brother in Christ,

Marco