Miracles in the Early Church
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A miracle is defined as "A special manifestation, or sign, of the presence and power of God in human history" (McBrien, 1224). While miracles are generally most likely to be associated with the Christian Church and faith, including the miracles that are identified in the Old Testament or "Hebrew Bible," miracles were not unknown in pre-Christian classical antiquity. Among the ancient Greeks, for example, miracles often were observed as a result of the interaction of one of the Gods in the lives of humans. For the ancient Greeks, as Smith (77 -- 79) noted, the belief that the gods of Olympus were interested in and connected to the lives of ordinary men and women was integral to their religious system. Gods such as Zeus, his daughter Athena, Diana, Venus, and others took a personal interest in the fate of favored mortals. Venus, for example, so loved Trojan Paris that she arranged for him to meet and conquer the heart of Helen. At the same time, many of the Olympians were equally interested in stirring up dissent and turmoil among humans and used their miracle-making power to that end
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