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To: sinkspur
What's more, by reading the Bible in the way they do, they turn God into a juvenile magician who flips physics and His own laws of nature on their heads

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You might try making an analogy to Jesus and the disciples eating grain on the Sabbath , or Jesus healing on the Sabbath. (Matt. 12:1-13, Mark 2:27 "The Sabbath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath.") Jesus liked to overturn a lot of things on their heads; and he explicitly told his hearers "...at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves." (John 14:11) Yes, He enjoined believing in miracles; but He Himself said in effect that they were "second-best."

Cheers!

625 posted on 06/10/2006 12:59:09 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers; sinkspur

Or read CS Lewis' "Miracles." God is not a "juvenile" anything. The Creator necessarily predates and is outside of His creation.

Without regard to how many years humans have been on Earth, God is super-natural. He doesn't over turn His laws, he works them better than we can measure outside of what seems natural to us.


636 posted on 06/10/2006 1:25:59 PM PDT by hocndoc (http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/index.html)
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