There is a slightly different view you can take on the seeming conflict
between miracles and science, particularly biblical miracles. In many
cases, the issue may not be how the event took place, but rather when. I
am willing to believe that the parting of the Red Sea for the Israelites
was a fortuitous confluence of wind, tide, and perhaps sand drift that
enabled the Israelites to cross on foot. The Egyptian chariots, being
wheeled, did not fare so well and got mired in the sand. But miraculously,
this event occurred just when it was needed by the Isralites! Similarly,
some of the healing Jesus did might have been of diseases easily understood
and healed by today's medical science, but again, the healing occurred at
Jesus' prayer. Same thing happened to you with the woman with arthritis.
You may come up with an explanation for the medicine some day, but not the
timing.
I haven't had any 'miracles' happen when I'm around, but God taps me on the
shoulder occasionally to remind me that he is there and paying attention to
me. Scientific? No. But it does wonders in bolstering my faith.
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