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To: MHGinTN
I mean, the lengths to which some minds will stumble to avoid considering that the number of alternate resulting universes may be how God keeps this particular one from coming out of balance never seems to occur to such ‘seekers’!

Or those that use God as the explanation for anything they don't understand. No evidence required. Nothing about it in the Bible. Just say God did it.

67 posted on 12/26/2011 5:23:36 AM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: Doe Eyes
But the more fun way to ask is, "How did God do it?" How did God change water into fine wine? How did Jesus feed thousands with only a little lunch basket of loaves and fishes? How did the hand write upon the wall in Belshazzar's palace party central while the body attached tot he arm remained in another where/when? How did Jesus leave the rock tomb without rolling away the stone from the doorway? How did Jesus appear in a locked and shuttered room without opening a door or window? How did Joshua's army bring down the walls of Jericho with rams horns and tramping feet, outside the walls of the city? How did God roll back the sea for the Hebrews to walk across, and then 'unroll' the sea, to drown the Egyptian army? How did God cause the sun to stand still overhead while the army He chose to win fought on? How did God stop the flow of the Jordan, for the Hebrews to cross over into the Promised Land? How did Jesus bring his friend Lazarus out from the grave after three days entombed? How did Jesus restore the sight to a blind man? How did Jesus give strength to a man crippled upon a mat since birth? ... And on it can go, asking how God did these miraculous things. Some say 'it's a miracle'. Yes, but given the laws of the Universe God created, how did He do these things within the framework of His created parameters of the whole thing holding together?

A quaint few will say 'those are fairy tails, myths, stories made up to manipulate people. But that insults the witnesses and is no more an answer than to say 'it's a miracle; we can't understand the how' don'tchaknow. A few of the miraculous things are given way to a 'how it could be done'. In the case of the Jordan river, for instance, there is a substantial lake bottom which gets filled up on the rare occasion when a landslide blocks the Jordan way up stream. Discovering a how shouldn't be seen as refuting that God did it, given the extraordinary timing of each event.

71 posted on 12/26/2011 7:21:58 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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