Perhaps they also have a direct and obvious need for miraculous protection in order to guarantee the success of their work.
Using statistical mechanics' route, rigging the evolution of a system to be apparently normal, until the anti-thermodynamic, miraculous event is required, seems most generally applicable.
Of these, three were celestial events, whereas the other five were magical or miraculous in greater or lesser degree.
Some accounts have miracles as violations of laws by definition,19 so cannot count cases such as m1 as miraculous.
These prohibitions were brought about by recognizing that the required miraculous activity was in fact under jurisdiction of causal natural laws.
Miraculous events, having once occurred, become part of the universe upon which the laws of nature operate.
The occurrence of such miraculous events, although entirely determined by the initial conditions of the universe, cannot be rendered predictable by human observers.
Since resurrection, if it occurs, is miraculous, we cannot expect a full philosophical account or explanation of it.
