Questions Instructions:

Jesus five miracles:

*Changing water into wine at Cana in John 2:1-11

*feeding the 5000 in John 6:5-14

*Jesus walked on water in John 6:16-24

*Jesus healed the blind man from birth in John 9:1-7

*Jesus healed tat paralytic at Bethesda in John 5:1-15

Assign a probability to each of the miracle (eg, .1, .01, .001 or .0001), and calculate the probability of five miracles occurring, and the probability of 100 miracles and 1000 miracles.

Use the multiplication principles to find the probability of probability of Jesus performing 5 miracles. Raise this number to the 20th power to find the probability of Jesus performing 100 miracles, and raise the number to the 200th power to find the probability of Jesus performing 1000 miracles. In this question, we should use estimation and multiplication

Multiplication principle: The multiplication principles state that if event 1 can happen in m ways and event 2 can happen in n ways, then events 1 and 2 can happen in m x n ways.

Example: Roll a six sided dice and toss a coin. Find the possible outcomes.

Solution: 6 x 2 = 12

The probability of an event A is given by the formula P(A) = (number for outcomes for A) / (number of possible outcomes).

Example: A bag contains 5 red balls, 4 black balls and 2 yellow balls. One balls has to be drawn at random from the bag. Find the probability of drawing a ball that is not black.

Solution: P ( not black) = 5+2/11 = 7/11

Questions:

1. What is the probability of Jesus performing all five of the miracles listed? Given that Jesus performed many more miracles than these, including miracles not listed in the Bible, what is the probability that Jesus performed 100 miracles? 1000 miracles?
2. Given the extremely low probability of Jesus performing the miracles listed in the Bible, can these events be attributed to coincidence?