Re: Well, the world is certainly looking grim, isn't it? 08523

[Dana]

when they will turn you from Jesus Christ. These are the occasions for
excluding particular miracles from belief. No others need be excluded.

Does it, therefore, follow that they would have the right to exclude all the
prophets who came to them? No; they would have sinned in not excluding those
who denied God, and would have sinned in excluding those who did not deny
God.

So soon, then, as we see a miracle, we must either assent to it or have
striking proofs to the contrary. We must see if it denies a God, or Jesus
Christ, or the Church.

836. There is a great difference between not being for Jesus Christ and
saying so, and not being for Jesus Christ and pretending to be so. The one
party can do miracles, not the others. For it is clear of the one party that
they are opposed to the truth, but not of the others; and thus miracles are
clearer.

837. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not
require miracles to prove it.

838. Jesus Christ performed miracles, then the apostles, a