The Miracles of Jesus
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Description: Discusses the nature of the miracles performed by the Lord.
Jesus said, "…for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (Jn. 8: 24). How do we know Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God? (Matt. 16: 13, 14-17.) Beloved, one way to establish Jesus' Sonship (his deity) is by the miracles Jesus performed. One common word translated miracle (dunamis) is the source for our English word dynamite. Hence, a miracle is dynamic, we would say in English. New Testament miracles were call "signs" (semeion) because they verified and confirmed (Acts 2: 43, Heb. 2: 4) and "wonders" (teras) because they made the observers marvel (Acts 2: 43, 7, 8). To avoid a lengthy dissertation regarding the nature and essential components of what constitutes a biblical miracle, allow me to simply suggest the following: A miracle is, first of all, a happening which involved the suspension or relaxing of the applicable physical and/or natural laws and the enacting of supernatural forces. Bible miracles sometimes involved the supernatural acceleration of natural laws (e.g. water to wine, Jn. 2). Tomas Aquinas is attributed with having introduced the view that miracles are simply "outside of nature…by producing the effects of secondary causes without them." Some miracles not only involved being outside or above nature but were actually contrary to nature. Hence, Augustine's teaching, as I understand it, that biblical miracles did not conflict with nature appears faulty. Jesus' walking on water was certainly above the relevant natural laws (Matt. 14: 22-33). It also entailed the suspension of the law of gravity. However, in addition to these basic elements, this miracle was against nature in that some rudimental laws of physics were violated. Some believe the greatest miracle Jesus performed was in feeding the five thousand. This miracle obviously involved Jesus' creative abilities (Mk. 6: 37-44, cf. Col. 1: 16).
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