I used to have great problems with the ‘un-scientific’ parts of the Bible. But these days I will risk ridicule and come out and say what I now feel; that if you don’t believe in the virgin birth or the other miracles in the Bible, including the seven day creation – because you cannot square it with your rational scientific thinking – then I’m sorry to say, but that’s not really very wise.
That’s a bit harsh isn’t it? Well I’m not here to insult people – I actually really do believe it’s a bit foolish, at the least ignorant, and here’s why I think it is unwise not to take the Bible’s more miraculous aspects at face value, even though yes, it may be some things in the Bible are not literal (though I don’t follow that line in generally).
The reason it’s not clever to try to square miracles or things like the seven day creation (and I’m not arguing that the 7 day creation is a fact at this point) with rational scientific thought – in other words, believe something can or cannot or not happen depending on how possible or ‘likely’ it is to happen in the natural ‘scientific’ realm we live in, is because if you do, you have missed the whole point of what miraculous is in the first place. Miracles or the miraculous means by definition; not going along with the natural order – and therefore to try and make something that is said to be miraculous in the Bible – fit in with nature does not make any sense.
If God created physical laws – He can alter them!
The point is – you are dealing with God – all powerful – omniscient – all knowing – all seeing – all everything – complete and utter control of the cosmos whatever it’s consistency (note the scientist are now telling us the whole thing is a digital hologram – on which case it would be even more plausible and in fact incredibly simple for God to manipulate and alter the laws of matter so that Jesus could walk on water or fish could appear from nowhere).
The fact is – you have already effectively been raised from the dead yourself – because you were once not living – and now you are – and no one asked my permission or your permission to create us. Life, and the experience of being in a huge cosmos – was handed to us on a plate, and wether we came from an amoeba, a rock, a tadpole, a fish, or life (spirit/self awareness) in fact was breathed into Adam and to me by God as The Bible says – any way you slice it – it’s miraculous! The elements, the universe and the laws of cosmos alone are miraculous when you study them – even ignoring life – but life shows the personal hand and creativity of a loving God in even great detail.
One exception to those that don’t believe in the miraculous
If however you base your disbelief on the miracles – the virgin birth and all the others – the fish – the waking on water purely what you understand the Bible to be saying then fine, you can’t be faulted if you really believe that is what it’s saying with all your heart mind and soul – The Bible says that in fact – that a man cannot be faulted if he really believes something in his heart, the reason being because we are all judged according to the light we have. The problem with all of this is that these stories do not square as being fairytales when you tread them – they are from a plain reading literal accounts of what happened and to make them anything else would be as if God was playing a kind of game with us and treating us like unintelligent beings which I do not believe he would.
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