God created the world. Nature and mankind are tools in His hands. So when God uses nature or mankind to accomplish something specific, is that a miracle? After all, while the tool might have been natural, the intent was supernatural. Or do we apply the label of “miracle” only those things which have no natural explanation?
Take the story of the Exodus. Moses’ staff turning into a snake, the sudden death of all Egypt’s firstborn sons, and the pillar of fire leading the Children of Israel in the desert are all unexplainable phenomena. Miracles. The pestilence and locust swarms that devastated Egypt, the Nile turning red, even the drying up of a section of the Red Sea all have possible natural explanations. But that doesn’t make them any less miraculous, due to their timing and scope. God used the (natural) tools that He had created to accomplish His (supernatural) will.
What is a miracle?
For centuries, much of Christianity only accepted the unexplainable, what some might call “magical,” as true miracles. But many...
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Beautifully said. Praise God 👏
As God said to the prophet Ezekiel over forty times: “Then you/they will know that I am the Lord”. Every miracle brings Him glory!
Yes, great article. Re. the Exodus, sadly there are those who try to explain God away, saying that it was all natural.
Or if you tell someone, “God brought his people back into their ancestral homeland in 1948”, they reply, “No, it was not God, it was an UN resolution.”
That’s quite typical for the secular masses; they do not understand.
Excellent, well written, absolutely right. But let me say a few personal words:
I was born into a Christian family and into a non-Christian family with converted Jewish ancestors. I was never a believer. A few years ago, I found old papers that told me: In reality, you are a Jew. That was not really a shock, but a relief. Now I can pray, now I can believe, now I am happy with our feasts. But Israel doesn’t want people like me, even if they want to work, fight and die for Israel. If you look at the demographic processes in Arab societies, it has to be a mistake.
But when I pray and ask him, he tells me not to wait for miracles. He also says that Israel can only survive if it does not wall itself in borders set by others. Only if it is open to all Jews who want to live in Israel and complete its work.