Loading...I’ve been arguing that Christians eventually converted the Roman empire because of their great miracles. But, well, I’m an atheist and I don’t believe in miracles. So how exactly does that square up? How can miracles convert anyone if miracles don’t happen?
Well, as it turns out, it absolutely can happen (and it doesn’t take a miracle!) Before continuing on to demonstrate the centrality of miracles to the Christian take-over of the Roman world, I pause here for some reflection on how it works….
Again this is from my book Triumph of Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2018), slightly edited.
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How are we to credit the Christian stories of miraculous conversions? Anyone who wants to accept these stories at face value will say they happened. But what about anyone else? Anyone, say, who doesn’t believe in miracles?
We are confronted with three inescapable facts, all of which need to be accounted for. First,
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