Belief - repost

[andrewducker]

Question three was borked. Rewritten to actually cover all the bases, and not be internally contradictory. Apologies to the 7 people who already filled it in!

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[robhu.livejournal.com]

Yes, people would see a difference between the things that God generally does (like the creation of new life in babies) and the things he does rarely (like the resurrection of the dead), but they wouldn't see them as being in two stark categories like natural and supernatural.

A christians can use the terms natural and supernatural to talk about the things that God generally does and the things he does rarely, but the terms have a different meaning than what the Christian means by them even if they broadly refer to similar classes of thing (although arguably they don't if we accept Carrier's position above).

So while the terms might be useful to have a common language to talk about approximately the same collections of things, the terms import ideas that the Christian wouldn't (or rather shouldn't) hold to.