Ancient and Modern Christian Apologetics
George La Piana
The belief in miracles has played a very important part all the great historical religions. In primitive religions intervention of powers supposed to be beyond ordinary human control and acting for purposes their own did not assume character supernatural events, natural were two distinct categories religious experience mankind. It was process moralization growing knowledge consistent working laws that gradually led classification phenomena into divisions those which above nature, distinction soon became an opposition gave rise dualistic conception life universe we find at basis
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