Wiles

• Had six objections
• 1. 'symbolic character'


  miracles are symbolic stories not to be taken literally
• 2. Gives God a 'highly selective character' and is 'religiously unsatisfactory'


  God not worth worshipping
• 3. Uses the examples of Hiroshima and Auschwitz 


  miracles are 'trivial' like turning water into wine
• 4. The 'direct interventions of God' would have 'disastrous implications' for the problem of evil 


  B. Hebblethwaite
• 5. 'The healing ministry of Jesus is firmly set within in the context of a conflict with evil' 


  Good over evil - mythical quality?
• 6. 'The world as a whole is a single act of God'


  Creation of the world is the only true miracle