Christ was born a visible man of a human virgin mother, but he was a hidden God because God was his Father. So the prophet had foretold: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son; and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is interpreted, God with us.” To prove that he was God, Christ worked many miracles, some of which – as many as seemed necessary to establish his claim – are recorded in the Gospels. Of these miracles the very first was the marvellous manner of his birth; the very last, his ascension into heaven in his body risen from the dead.
Augustine
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Augustine mentions Jesus' resurrection as a miracle here. I remember when I first clocked that Jesus' resurrection was a miracle (don't ask me why I didn't realise this immediately, maybe it's cos I always thought of his death/resurrection first as a sacrifice rather an miracle!) after a John Wilthew preach one time. John said that if you try and rub out or gloss over the smaller miracles Jesus is said to have performed, instead of accepting them fully, and then follow that side-stepping approach to the miraculous elements of Christianity through to its ultimate conclusion, Christianity collapses completely.
After all, if you don't allow the smaller miracles which Jesus reportedly performed, like healing sickness or curing blindness, you can't very well have the Grand Miracle (or whatever C.S. Lewis calls it in Miracles!) of Jesus coming back to life! All or nothing, as they say!
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