Let's be prepared to answer questions about our faith such as:
Isn't the Bible a mythological book?
Recently someone told me there was no way Jonah could have survived in the belly of a fish because the gastric juices would have killed him.
My answer about this and similar Bible events (e.g., talking donkeys, parting seas, floating ax heads, healing of the blind) is this: They were miracles.
That means God went against the laws of science when He did them. By their very nature miracles aren't reproducible unless God Himself wishes to reproduce them.
And miracles are important—if we can't accept miracles, we can't accept Christ.
Why? Because “faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). And faith is required for the most important miracle of all: the resurrection of Christ from the dead, without which there would be no salvation (1 Corinthians 15:12-22).
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i totally agree with you
ReplyDeleteThanks for this clear blogpost!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it was helpful.
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Again, another post that gives us some answers to those who ask or question our belief.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Thanks, Christine
DeleteGreat as always: clear, Biblical and to the point! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteMyths teach us deeper truths . They may or may not have a basis in reality but they are valuable for the lessons we can learn
ReplyDeleteYou can hold that belief about myths, Christina, but that has nothing to do with the content of this devotion. This devotion is explaining that the stories in the Bible are not myths. When God tells us something happened. We can be confident it happened. The stories in God's Word teach us valuable lessons, but they're not myths. And that actually matters very much because if we can't trust God to tell us true stories, we can't trust anything He tells us.
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