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Can Miracles Happen Today?

                 Recently, I had to read Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton for an assignment. One of the topics he discusses in that book is the place of miracles in the Christian faith. Anyone who wants to embrace the Christian faith has to address the issue of miracles in the Bible. C. S. Lewis found the same to be true and ended up writing an entire book on the topic.             As a rationalist and ‘reasonable agnostic’ (as he calls himself), who eventually embraced Christianity, Mr. Chesterton presents his arguments interwoven with the evolution of his own thinking and the maturing of his own convictions. He had effectively proved the ineffectiveness of modern arguments against Christianity and the hopelessness it brings in his previous book, ‘Heretics.’ His contemporary Europeans who came from a Christian background also were complaining that the creeds of Christianity was many times not clear and it did not make sense to the modern mindset. The critical historical analysis had al