[MHGinTN]

Thank you so much for the ping.

"In any case there are many mysterious things involved in your trade (mechanic), if you were but aware of them. And miracles are facts, not phantoms." The secular mind seeks to find the non-mysterious answers for the mysteries confronted, believing that there is a natural world explanation if man is smart enough to dig it out.

The problem with this natural perspective is ... because God created a universe which runs so well, the secular mind can always find a natural way to explain even the quantum realm and the cosmological realm.

Ultimately, the Holy Spirit must spark the human spirit to awaken to the numinous. Too many today awaken, only to be dragged back into somnambulence by the 'cares of this world'.

It is an old cliche perhaps, but it is accurate: if I am walking the desert and come upon a rusting old truck, I do not seek a natural world explanation for what this is or how it comes to be where it is, because I know that an intelligence designed, built and eventually abandoned the thing, where/when I find it.

In the beginning of Romans, Paul relates to us the same syllogism. Men denying God will be without excuse.

Once one believes in God the Creator, he will know (not conjecture or plot by syllogistic arrangement, but Know) that one of the greatest miracles is that there is anything to which his mind may attain! If something has a one in 10¹²⁰ chance of happening, we would deem the happening an astonishing event, for all intents and purposes a miracle. Such is the delicate balance of the universe in which we exist physically.

Miracles are real, but they are so common to our existence that we deem them 'the natural world'.

[Quix]

THANKS THANKS.

[GonzoII]

"I do not seek a natural world explanation for what this is or how it comes to be where it is, because I know that an intelligence designed, built and eventually abandoned the thing, where/when I find it."

The same is with the Arab who was asked how he knew that there was a God and replied: In the same way as I know by the footprints in the sand that an animal or man has passed this way.

[Alamo-Girl]

Miracles are real, but they are so common to our existence that we deem them 'the natural world'.

Indeed. Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!

[girlangler]

Thanks for the ping, and it’s good timing.

I am at my 82 year-old Mother’s house now, had to take her to the ER today.

Please freeper friends, will you pray for my Mom? she has been very ill and I am extremely concerned for her.

And yes, I do believe in miracles, have seen them happen.