The Meaning of Miracles and Nature

If it weren’t for the natural laws of the universe, miracles would have no meaning to them.

Think about it truthfully, if you’re a Christian, for just a moment.

What made Jesus’s miracles, or the miracles of the prophets for that matter, special?

It is a natural law that creatures die and pass into nothingness until the restoration of all things at the end of the age, at least for humans.

Human death was caused by Adam and Eve’s sin, but death seems to be a natural part of the universe.

Perhaps this is the best way for the universe to exist, though I admit that would be a philosophical reasoning point and not a scientific one.

My point in saying this is, Jesus’s miracles only make sense if there are natural laws.

God is capable of breaking the laws of the physical and material world.

I believe God uses natural processes to accomplish His will for the world, though.

For example, the fossil fuels we burn for energy today were likely in His mind way back then, millions of years ago.

He is a supernatural being, but isn’t shy about using the natural world.

I don’t buy young-earth creationism at all because the natural world around us is ancient.

To say God created light in-transit to Earth from billions of light-years away is ridiculous. That would make God a liar.

I’m not fond of such deception, whether in my own personal walk or to ascribe it to Him.

God expects us not to lie, so why would He not hold Himself to such a standard?

The universe must be billions of years old.

The days of Creation were likely long periods of time. “Let the Earth do this. Let the Earth do that.” It doesn’t say how long the days were, and we’re currently in the seventh day where God rested from His work of creating the universe.

Whether He used evolutionary, biological processes is beside my point. He may have. He may not have. Jesus is still the way, the truth, and the life.

The world is natural and governed by natural law.

When Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding, He broke natural law and performed a miracle.

Water does not become wine.

Grapes do.

When He walked on the water, He was showing His power over creation.

When He calmed the storm, the disciples were astonished and asked, “Who is this that even the wind and waves obey Him?”

Meaning wind and waves aren’t normally able to be calmed by a command from our mouths.

Christians need to stop being enemies of science.

Scientists need to stop being suspicious (well, the atheist scientists) of faith.

What if demonic and angelic beings are higher-dimensional beings only perceptible when they vibrate their form of matter at our frequency in the third dimension?

Something that might be quantifiable in material terms, but only on their terms, if you catch my drift.

The chariot throne of God might be some higher form of technology that belongs in the divine’s abode.

Perhaps some of these things will never be explained by science. Or, better put, science might not have the ability to describe phenomena from higher dimensions of existence due to the inherent disconnect between such realities.

When the angels throw fire from the altar on the Earth during the wrath of God, it is beyond scientific principles and explanations.

When the bowls of wrath turn everything in the sea to blood, our understanding of the material world limits us from explaining such through natural means.

But it is due to these natural laws of Earth and the rest of the universe that we come to understand God’s divine power.

The reason a miracle is a miracle is that the unchanging laws of the world are being changed by such an action. Only God (and those whom He deems fit to serve Him in a miraculous role, such as a prophet like Elijah) can perform miracles, besides the rare occurrence when angels and demons perform them.

Again, such beings are from another plane of existence, so their effects on this plane might be impossible to quantify in material terms.

Miracles are the touch of the divine in material existence.

Miracles happen, whether anecdotal or apparent to all to see.

Whether the natural world is a product of a miracle remains in the area of philosophical speculation.

The original Creation event at the start of the universe billions of years ago had a higher-dimensional trigger to it, and the only difference between my understanding of the initial singularity and an atheist’s is I have a God who started it, and they have no explanation since they don’t know.

They might assume I’m arrogant to think I do know, attributing an event such as that to God.

But the thing is, is it not just as incomprehensible that it may as well be divine to have such an explosion of energy and matter?

These forces are beyond our comprehension, though science has made great strides in understanding the split-second stages of the time after the initial singularity.

But the world has its rules, and our God has His ability to transcend those rules.

My grand point to tie this all together is, the material things we understand do not preclude the existence of a God we might not always be able to comprehend.

And the miracles Jesus performed show us the One who made the natural laws can do with them as He pleases.

As it is said in the Bible:

“Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His son’s name? Surely you know” (Proverbs 30:4 [ESV])!

Interestingly, the 10th century B.C. Book of Proverbs asks us who God’s Son is at a time when the concept of God having a Son was unknown even to the writers of the Scriptures.

God is the one who gathers the winds in His fists. The Hebrew word “ares” also shows us God is the one who decided the boundaries of the natural world’s dry land. Flat-earthers assume the Earth has ends when the Hebrew word means the boundaries of the land before each of the seas.

God is ultimately in control of the natural world to such a degree that He decided where each shoreline would be; He controls the storms and is the rightful ruler of creation.

Is it any wonder He can break the laws of physics? Nothing is impossible with Yahweh.

Blessings and shalom.