DOUBTING THE MIRACLES?

One of the stumbling blocks for many people when it comes to the Bible are the miracles recorded therein. There are accounts of a bush on fire, but not burning up. There's an account of Christ's walking on water, changing water to wine, healing the deaf, curing the blind, and raising the dead.

The Old Testament records more than a few in addition to that bush in the wilderness, miracles such as a fortified city's walls falling flat, an ax head floating, and even the Red Sea and the Jordan River splitting. The biblical authors record 4 great ages of miracles, three are over and done with, a fourth awaits: the time of Moses and Joshua; the time of Elijah and Elisha; the time of Christ and the apostles; the time of the coming Great Tribulation. There are many miracles listed in the three great ages of miracles which are too numerous to mention, but the point is that the Israelites did not enjoy continuous times of miracles.

Should those recorded miracles be discounted? We could say, "No," because the men who recorded them gave their lives for believing them to be true historical facts, not something they made up and people don't die for what they know to be lies. Peter addressed this when he wrote, "We have not followed cunningly devised fables."

But let's get back to basics. Doing that will take us back to "In the beginning." And "In the beginning takes us back to an everyday miracle we don't consider, but we need to because all else follows.

You're reading this while most likely in a sitting position, immobile, not going anywhere. But, you'd be wrong, really, really wrong. You're actually on the Earth that's rotating at 1,000 miles per hour and flying around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. You're also in a galaxy that's hurtling itself at a million miles per hour through a universe that's so ordered so that human life can exist in it. (Vince Vitale)

How much thought do we give to this speed, this form, this order, and this precision? All that would be a huge miracle, in fact, the biggest miracle of them all, and if that's the biggest miracle of them all, a burning bush, a floating ax head, etc. would be no problem.

There are only three possibilities concerning the origin of the universe:

1. A personal infinite God as described in the Bible created the universe.
2. The universe with all its form, order, and precision just popped into existence. Something came out of nothing, which has never been seen or known to happen.
3. All this is eternal. But only pushes the problem a step back. 

So, once you accept Genesis 1:1 as an accurate recording of how the universe came to be, all the rest, all the miracles, follow logically because Gen. 1:1 records the biggest miracle of them all.