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Sleeping in EQ · 08-11-2008, 01:48 PM

Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore:

The night kissed the fading day
With a whisper.
"I am death, your mother.
From me you will get new birth."

ChinoCoug · 08-11-2008, 02:10 PM

sounds like he's talking about reincarnation.

Indy Coug · 08-11-2008, 02:18 PM

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin miraculum, from Latin, a wonder, marvel, from mirari to wonder at
Date: 12th century

1: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
2: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment

Sleeping in EQ · 08-11-2008, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

sounds like he's talking about reincarnation.

Some prominent Mormon leaders have believed in reincarnation, either under that name or under the notion of "successive mortal probations."

UtahDan · 08-11-2008, 03:38 PM

Someone recently wondered out loud whether death as well as birth might not be priesthood ordinances. I can't say this is not the case.

ute4ever · 08-11-2008, 04:37 PM

SIEQ I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I've always looked at a "miracle" as something that science cannot explain. Thus physical death is not a miracle, but the theories about spiritual matter living eternally most certainly would be.

Indy Coug · 08-11-2008, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ute4ever

SIEQ I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I've always looked at a "miracle" as something that science cannot explain. Thus physical death is not a miracle, but the theories about spiritual matter living eternally most certainly would be.

Ditto. Since all mankind will be resurrected, death is the portal to one of the greatest miracles of all.

Sleeping in EQ · 08-11-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ute4ever

SIEQ I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I've always looked at a "miracle" as something that science cannot explain. Thus physical death is not a miracle, but the theories about spiritual matter living eternally most certainly would be.

I don't findy your response cheeky at all. I haven't attempted a definition and am happy you are weighing in.

Gidget · 08-12-2008, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ute4ever

SIEQ I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I've always looked at a "miracle" as something that science cannot explain. Thus physical death is not a miracle, but the theories about spiritual matter living eternally most certainly would be.

Science can explain birth, and I think birth is a miracle.

FMCoug · 08-12-2008, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Gidget

Science can explain birth, and I think birth is a miracle.

One day (perhaps not in this life) we will understand the science behind every miracle Christ performed. Will they then cease to be miracles?

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08-11-2008, 01:48 PM	#1
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Is death a miracle? Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore: The night kissed the fading day With a whisper. "I am death, your mother. From me you will get new birth." __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

08-11-2008, 02:10 PM	#2
ChinoCoug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NOVA Posts: 3,005	sounds like he's talking about reincarnation. __________________ 太初有道

08-11-2008, 03:38 PM	#5
UtahDan Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Bluth Home Posts: 3,877	Someone recently wondered out loud whether death as well as birth might not be priesthood ordinances. I can't say this is not the case. __________________ The Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go. -Galileo

08-11-2008, 02:18 PM	#3
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin miraculum, from Latin, a wonder, marvel, from mirari to wonder at Date: 12th century 1: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs 2: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment

08-11-2008, 04:37 PM	#6
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	SIEQ I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I've always looked at a "miracle" as something that science cannot explain. Thus physical death is not a miracle, but the theories about spiritual matter living eternally most certainly would be.