Why should the wondrous events described in sacred writings be given naturalistic explanations?

Question

Is it just human nature and our need to understand it all?

Answer 1

For some people.
You use big words. I don't know if everyone here will understand your question.
But yeah, human nature tends to put us on the top of the totem pole vainly attempting to make everything else obsolete. If we didn't see it, did it really happen? If we don't understand it, does it really matter?
I like your question.

Answer 2

The "wonderous events describes in sacred writings" don't require naturalistic explanations. The "wonderous events describes in sacred writings" are mythological. What would be the point of providing them with naturalistic explanations? The only appropriate naturalistic explanation could be captured in one word... 'horsesh*t'. What kind of 'naturalistic explanations' would you give to:

*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmmament' structure (the sky) seperating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
*  shepherd staff turning into an asp
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  food falling from the sky
*  conception by a ghost
*  people raising from the dead
*  the sun stopping in its tracks
*  parting seas
*  people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
*  world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
*  creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
*  magical tree of knowledge
*  god speaking from a burning bush
*  ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker

Answer 3

That may be. The wondrous events listed in the Bible may be bona fide miracles with no scientific explanation. I do, however, think that God frequently works through the laws of nature - why not, he did invent them, after all. If God should cause a great wind or a tremendously shallow low-tide or some other rare natural phenomenon at the exact moment it's needed, is that really any less miraculous or awe-inspiring?

Answer 4

i think of that there is a hullabaloo appropriate to the age of the earth with the aid of fact of individuals attempting to place God into the comparable strata as themselves. take a glance on the story of introduction interior the Bible. He created 2 lighting fixtures fixtures interior the heavens, one to maintain night, the extra desirable to maintain day. this is positively the connection with the moon and the sunlight. If those have been created on the 4th day how did you keep time before then? We save time via the increasing and the placing of the sunlight. an afternoon to God is in spite of He needs it to be. no longer what we decide for it to be. It additionally states that an afternoon to the Lord is as 1000 years. in keeping with possibility this is the place they get 7000 years to the introduction. to ignore approximately technological know-how, and say the earth is 7000 years previous and that it is not any older is ridiculous.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve couldn't imagine how eating a little fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil could cause any problems, either.

Obviously, nothing's changed!

Answer 6

It depends on what you describe as "sacred writings" and if they have anything to do with the earth and the people in it.
If there has been a history on earth, then there will have been evidence to that fact.

Answer 7

Because naturalistic explanations make sense and spiritual ones do not. Jesus had his wrists slashed with Occam's razor, and he didn't survive.

Answer 8

Yes, it is a human propensity to try to explain something based on prior knowledge.