Miracles and Opiates
In John Chapter 2, Jesus performs his first Miracle by turning water into wine.
Miracles, possibly more than any other part of our holy books, require a large leap of faith. They seem to go hand in hand with the conquering of death as a testimony to God's power as superior to the laws of nature.
That very leap of faith has been ridiculed as an antidote for a pain-filled world. Just recently I purchased a Tears for Fears CD where I found this short song called "ideas as opiates":
"Say what you want
Say what you will
'Cos I find you think what makes it easier
And lies spread on lies
We don't care
Belief is our relief
We don't care" (c) 1983 Mercury Records for Tears for Fears
Of course, this is just a retelling of a Karl Marx quote which goes:
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people."
So, where do I stand on this important (even critical) issue? I don't yet know... however, I do know that I don't know everything. I would never assert that there is no mystery in the universe. Why is the universe so large? Is there life on other planets? I do not wish to have such hubris to assert that miracles are impossible.
Therefore, at this time, I would place miracles in the "agnostic" category in the "should you believe landscape" as depicted in the figure on the right.
posted by Michael C. Daconta @ 9/02/2006 07:29:00 AM
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For God so loved us that he gave us a collection of inspired 66 synchronized books written by 40 authors over 1500 years. Its existence alone should eliminate the need for faith in His word. But it continues by there being many more infalliable and undeniable proofs of its origin from God that NO man can, nor has, been able to disprove nor deny. It has withstood the test of time. At the time of Jesus, both the Pharisees and Saduccees were able to get their hands on the New Testament documents and would have never permitted such erroneous claims about this individual to continue without the preservation of contra-documentation and literature to be continued within books until this day. But where is anything, or any shred of evidence that can deny the authority of the Word.
Praise be to our Loving Father for such proof.
How about the numerous declarations of prophesy that is fulfilled within both the Old and New Testaments that God did to prove that He is GOD.
There are many more proofs that I will not go into for times sake, but suffice to say that this book has been picked apart for many years by many, many scholars in an attempt to reveal its human origin and deny its divinity. Too date, all have failed. And don't forget the great men of our country's history that firmly believed such a book as being divine...George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln...and many many more if your heart has the desire to search.
So where is the faith with so much proof? I believe it is the application of the Word that shows your true Faith.
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