I thought this was an interesting observation, at Fatima THE BLESSED MOTHER had the sun come hurtling down toward the Earth.
Why not have the Earth hurtle toward the sun? A mystery we'll find out someday.
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If the earth had done the moving, then everyone all around the globe would have noticed, but only those at Fatima noticed.
The miracle was for those who came to the Cova da Iria, not for those who did not come.
Scripture says the earth "shall not be moved," so Our Lady wouldn't want the atheists to say the Bible was wrong.
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Might have to do with the end of the world, which seemed to be happening then, but did not.
Scripture says the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll and the stars will lose their regular motion.
Most of the eye witnesses were convinced on the spot that the world was ending right there.
They fell to their knees and began to confess their sins out loud.
Atheists were converted.
The blind, sick and deaf were cured.
Everyone's clothes became dry and freshly laundered.
The muddy soil was suddenly dry.
People's shoes that had been stuck in the mud were clean, and resting normally on dry soil.
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From a scientific perspective none of it makes any sense.
People's shoes should have been stuck in dried dirt, and they'd have to dig them out.
Dry clothes, maybe, but laundered and fresh? Impossible! Tell that to the eye witnesses.
Physically, the energy required to dry all those clothes and remove the moisture from the mud would have cooked the people.
Everyone would have died instantly, from a purely physical and normal drying by the sun's heat.
How the sun could have appeared as it did, moving that way, is entirely outside the possibility of nature.
Totally unbelievable.
Unquestionably the greatest physical miracle in modern times.
Comparable to the parting of the Red Sea or the 10 plagues of Egypt or the fire that erupted from the Temple reconstruction.
It was given "so that all may believe," but even to this day 100 years later, there are doubters.