Cardinal Newman miracle man Jack Sullivan visits Oratory - An exclusive TNT News interview

Deacon Jack Sullivan from Boston USA, who was cured of a crippling spinal disease after praying to Cardinal Newman, founder of the Oratory Church, visited Ladywood on 11 November 2009. In an exclusive interview with TNT he told how the Vatican earlier this year approved the cure as a miracle and Newman is likely to be made a saint next year.

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[SaintForChrist]

@DaMuttzNutz

Once you agree that God exists, we can debate as to which faith has the best understanding of God. Then I'll answer which we are to believe.

[SaintForChrist]

@SaintForChrist

I don't claim to have 100% certainty in the existence of God, just as you cannot claim that you have 100% certainty that the train will get you to the stop. Your whole life you live by faith in one thing or another.

[SaintForChrist]

@DaMuttzNutz

What is faith? Faith is merely assurance of things conviction of things not seen. You live your whole life on the basis of faith. I can prove it to you. When you post on youtube, you have faith that your posts will be posted. You don't have 100% certainty. When you get into a train, you have faith that it will take you to your stop. You don't have 100% certainty. In the same way, I have faith that God exists because the laws of logic demand the existence of such an entity.

[SaintForChrist]

@DaMuttzNutz

I am arguing the existence of God from a logical standpoint. It's no strawman argument. It's the very argument on which atheists stumble. The very DEFINITION of God is that God is the non-contingent cause of everything that exists. You don't "pretend" to know the prime cause of the universe, but from what I KNOW through the known laws of LOGIC, contingent entities are dependent on a non-contingent entity. And that's the definition of God - the non-contingent entity.

[DaMuttzNutz]

@SaintForChrist this is the best you can come up with in a year? A couple of straw man arguments? The definition of god is nothing; non-existance, except in the minds of the deluded. Besides, The Bible tells us that we were created in God's image, then it's safe to assume that your god should man-like in appearance.

[DaMuttzNutz]

@SaintForChrist What a cop out? So 'god' is just somewhere to hide our ignorance? I don't pretend to know the prime cause of the universe, though observation (expansion, red-shift, background microwave radiation) seems to suggest that it originated from a single super massive singularity some 15 billion years ago. Before then, we can only speculate, but I'd much rather the speculation is based on scientific knowledge than faith, i.e. belief without proof.

[DaMuttzNutz]

@SaintForChrist last I heard, children have to be 'taught' about 'god' in pretty much the same way that they have to be taught mathematics. The only difference is that for 'god' they have to rely on faith for their belief, while Mathematics can be shown to be demonstrably true. Of course, all the Muslim children are taught something completely different, and Hindu children something different still. Bhuddism teaches yet another version of events. Which are we to believe?

[SaintForChrist]

@DaMuttzNutz

Where did God come from? This means you don't know the very definition of God. God is the non-contingent cause of everything that exists. Asking therefore "where did God come from" is a logical fallacy. So tell me if there was nothing prior to the big bang, how did something come from nothing?

[SaintForChrist]

@DaMuttzNutz

Yes, Jesus did tell us to obey the scriptures, but at the same time he gave us the church to correctly interpret the scriptures and apply them to our time.

[SaintForChrist]

@DaMuttzNutz

Atheism is not the default state of human beings. An atheist is not simply one without knowledge of something. A-THEIST is someone who rejects the THEIST position. In order to reject something, you first need to know it.