possibly be true?
(no offence intended...was just pondering)
2007-12-08 21:55:14 · 23 answers · asked by happy wife and mum 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible is a guide, nothing more, it uses stories and parables to show us the right way to behave, an idea of the right path to choose, the consequences of being the wrong type of person.
To lend any weight to these stories as truth is pure folly.
For example, the parting of the Red Sea. Nice story, never happened, but it does say to us that if we stand together for what is right then sometimes we can overcome the greatest obstacles.
See? It's a teaching tool, used correctly, a very effective teaching tool.
2007-12-08 22:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean 'couldn't possibly be true?' Scripture says 'all things are possible to him that believes'. The difference is this: put God into the equation, and all things are possible; take God out of the equation, and miracles aren't possible.
If you believe in God - ie. a being with supernatural powers beyond our own - then it is not illogical to believe in miracles. It all depends on your starting point.
Christians have no problem believing in the miracles - of Jesus, Moses, Elijah, etc. - because they've already believed in miracles at the beginning of their faith. You might say, they've already swallowed the 'head', so why not the 'body' also?
Christians believe that the Lord Jesus was in fact, the very Son of God - ie. Divine. How's that for the first wonder?
- that he was conceived and born of a virgin - illogical?
- that he died on the cross vicariously (ie. in our place, for our sins)
- and that he rose from the dead on the third day - that's a big one!
So, which is easier to believe in miracles of healing, moving mountains, feeding 5,000, or in rising from the dead? You might say, we're already in 'deep water'.
It's all the same, as I said before, because everything you read about Jesus is miraculous, and if you deny the miracles, what you're actually doing is denying that there is a God who is able to do such things, because, quite simply, the miracles were God's proof that Jesus was the Christ.
Our world, our universe, is ordered and operates by fixed laws of science, so to the unbelieving mind miracles are illogical. However, if there is a God, the centre and creator of all things, well, he (and only he) can make a 'pause' or 'hiatus' in the laws of the universe. It is not a problem to him - all things are possible.
Science is finding some strange things nowadays, things which the scientific mind could not allow for or grasp only a decade or two ago. New and original thinkers, in astrophysics especially, are suggesting things which would not have been allowed for previously, because they seemed to go outside the laws of physics. It is like new frontiers have started to open up, and all this holds no fears for the Christian, for we know that God is in there, proving himself through science, through creation itself, above and beyond anything that mankind has hitherto imagined or thought possible.
2007-12-09 08:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by homechrch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Miracles do happen. Lots of books by a lot of people in the here and now have writen about them. Wander a library and you will find many books with stories of fantastic things that happened to people. Not in the fiction section either.
Just remember that strange things happen all the time, we explain them away today because we see so many things and know how easy it is to trick people into seeing things. Back then there were no planes, no light bulbs, running water was a stream not indoor plumbing. Books ( scrolls) were only for the very very few 'each' one was completely hand writen. Counting was done with knots on a rope. Only the very rich went to school the rest learned a trade nothing else. And travel was by foot or *** or camel or reed boat. Ideas were kind of home bound by the beliefs of you and your neigbours, and if they did not like it or you then you got stoned ( not pot real stones thrown at you until you died)
Could any modern day trickster possibly fool those kind of people?
2007-12-09 06:17:17 · answer #3 · answered by Charles B 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, not things that couldn't possibly be true, but rather, true things that couldn't possibly happen under normal circumstances!
A "miracle" is simply an event that cannot be explained by the normal laws of physics or human interaction. For example, Lot and his daughters' escape from Sodom just before it was destroyed was a miracle (not the destruction of Sodom!). The timing there was just TOO COINCIDENTAL to be mere chance. It sounds as if Sodom and the surrounding area were destroyed in a volcanic-type catastrophe, and quite suddenly. How did Lot and his family know to leave?
How could Moses have given detailed timings of the 10 plagues on Egypt, without some divine intervention? The plagues themselves were nothing physically unusual (except for the death of all the firstborn on one night). It was Moses' ability to predict them, and Isreal's exclusion from them, that was miraculous.
2007-12-09 06:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I quite admire their belief in things that have no reasoning to be true or any explanation. Miracle is just a word which basically means faith in something unexplained, but it's gotten religious connotations because of that fact.
Now days, people don't believe anything that hasn't been proven by science - and that's proven many people wrong in the past.
2007-12-09 06:00:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, the miracles were usually done to inspire the masses to convert.
No miracle that I can think of has explained something that couldn't possible be true?
2007-12-09 06:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by scholar_wood 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not only in Bible, but in every holy books. It is all to give more explanations / understandings / confidance in people who read them. Children can understand morels from fairy tales faster than real time examples. When the concepts grow little bigger, grown up people also need the fairy tale concept to feed them good things.
2007-12-09 06:02:51 · answer #7 · answered by newwbratt k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This moment of time
there are miracles in former Yugoslavia
and they happen quite regular
I am not going to mention the place or town, [reasons]
Seek and you shall find ?
2007-12-09 10:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by denis9705 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the miracles in the Bible are entirely faith-based, and whether true or not, it teaches a good lesson.
2007-12-09 06:00:11 · answer #9 · answered by Amo 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wonder how can one believe in the stupid things of the miracles of the bible?
2007-12-09 06:35:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋