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Robert John Russell critiques my critique of David Hume to expand the discussion of miracle and nature's laws. Russell on Hume makes miracle room.

Blasphemy is in the news reporting on movements to repeal anti-blasphemy laws and because of Quran burnings in Sweden and Denmark. It's time the systematic theologian clarify the three types of blasphemy: (1) denunciation of God or God's believers; (2) pursuing evil the he name of the good; and (3) pursuing evil in the name of evil. Blasphemy as (1) sacrilege; (2) evil in the name of the good; and (3) evil in the name of evil.

Jesus' nature miracles do not break nature's laws. Rather, they break into nature's processes from God's eschatological new creation. All Jesus miracles draw on the power of God's eschatological promise to transform this creation into the kingdom of God. Jesus' nataure miracles break into nature's laws

Special Divine Action comes in two forms, miraculous and non-miraculous. Robert John Russell's NIODA (Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action) theory explains the non-miraculous. How does a miracle differ? Special divine action comes in miraculours and non-miraculous forms.

Philosopher David Hume defines a miracle as an event that breaks a law of nature. But, because the laws of nature are never broken, miracles do not exist. Is that a sound argument? Not according to Donghwi Kim. Hume on miracles? Fallacious reasoning?

Abortion access policy should keep the yet-to-be-born baby's welfare in mind. The political wrangling should not be reduced to merely concern over "women's health" or "reproductive care" services. Abortion access policy should keep the unborn baby in mind.

When God raised Jesus from the dead on the first Easter, God promised to raise you and me at the future advent of the New Creation. Like a seemingly dead seed buried in the ground, our dead body, soul, and spirit will sprout and flower into a soma pneumatikon, a spiritual body in God's eternity. That's the Christian promise. Jesus' Easter resurrection is a prolepsis of our resurrection.

Absorption into the mystical infinite has been the life's goal of Hindus and new agers. It's the ultimate identification of the self with the whole of reality that comes after the last rebirth. Or, one can experience cosmic unity now through yoga meditation. This one option in our list of afterlife options. Are you a mystic? Absorption into the mystical infinite.

Attempts at communicating with the dead puzzle me. Oh, how I wished to receive an unambiguous and comforting message from my deceased mother! I got a message. And it was comforting. Yet, I still walk around with a shade of skeptical doubt. Maybe, like faith in God, some level of doubt is unavoidable. Does communication with the dead prove an afterlife?

Reports of Near-Death Experiences suggest we humans are more than mere meat. An afterlife awaits us. What could this mean? Can we learn from science? Near-Death Experience can be studied scientifically