What About All Those Miracles?
How could someone walk on water, or bring dead people back to life with just a word, or turn water into wine? Many find these things difficult to believe, and relegate them to the status of myths or legends from ancient and very much less-knowledgeable civilizations.
We take a "rational", scientific view of the world, and we doubt that things could happen which seem to be in breach of the normal laws of science as we know them and are beyond our experience. But the fact that we don't see these things happening now does not mean that they cannot happen or did not ever happen.
The Bible starts with the words "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." It is quite logical to believe that this is a true and correct account of the beginnings of our universe, neither does it conflict in any way with any proven scientific knowledge. It is not incredible, as somewhere, somehow, in some way, our universe did begin - the evidence of that is all around us. The incredible thing is that it all exists; not that it began as an act of God. In fact, only an act of God is credible as a starting point for the universe.
If, then, we accept that there is a God who has demonstrated his ability to create from nothing this whole universe, with its billions of stars, planets and moons, with the fine detail and amazing complexity that we find when we examine any aspect of it through microscope and telescope, then we start with a God who has great knowledge and power.
This being, God, is able to create a universe and everything in it, and set it all in motion so that it runs according to rules we perceive as scientific or natural laws. Is it too difficult to believe that a God who created the human body with all its beauty and complexity from the dust of the ground and breathed life into it, can also restore the life of a dead person? Could a God who created both water and wine be unable to convert one into the other? Cannot God, who created water, the human body, the laws of physics and chemistry, change the properties of water or a human body to enable himself to walk on water.
Would a God who existed before and apart from the universe, who is intelligent and powerful enough to create the universe and all in it, and who must by definition be greater than the universe he caused, be limited by the laws he himself designed and imposed on the creation?
If we accept that God is the cause behind the creation, then all other “miracles” become easily possible.
It is not difficult to believe that God created all that exists, because something or someone did!
Creation either happened as a creative act of a being powerful and intelligent enough to do so, or else it all started from nothing and happened by complete chance.
Everything we know and all our experience tells us that great order, design, and complexity does not happen without the application of intelligence. Neither has man ever created anything from nothing - we can only take things that already exist and change them into another form. Science has never observed or demonstrated the creation of something from nothing, or the beneficial "evolutionary" process of change from a simple to a more complex organism (that is, with new beneficial information added to the genes through an accidental random genetic mutation).
Yet in the face of all this evidence, do you contend that it is more "credible" to believe that
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| • | things which weren't alive became alive accidentally, then |
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| • | these accidentally-living cells became more and more complex and intricate as the result of millions of random accidents over time - that is, that non-living simple elements became the marvel of man as an almost infinite procession of completely random chance occurrences. |
To me, that is the unbelievable theory.
It would be easier and more logical and numerically probable to believe that you could win first prize in the lottery every week without fail for the rest of your life.
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