The Case Against Miracles

by John W. Loftus

There are two of them. One) Christians claim the gospel writers received private subjective messages from the spirit world who subsequently wrote down these messages known as the divinely inspired Scriptures. On this see David Madison’s excellent chapter for a refutation. Two) Apologists also argue that Christians receive their own private subjective messages that lead them to trust the private subjective messages of the gospel writers. At this point it’s private and subjective all the way down without any foundation for their beliefs. I call this what it is, paranormal activity, the giving and receiving of psychic messages from beyond. Christians would scoff at my description of these messages as psychic, but what else are they? Spirit communication would be coming from a god on this account. But there would be no difference as to the medium, or the reliability of these messages, when compared to others who claim to have psychic abilities.