Tangible Miracle

All the miracles we have in the New Testament have to always be up to each person to believe or disbelieve for themselves. It does no disservice to faith to state the truth that no one can know what did or did not happen. Does anyone know for a fact that Jesus walked on water? No, of course not. And only one’s ego could ever feel riled up or defensive stating that he did. This is not to say that Jesus didn’t walk on water, because no one can know that he didn’t, either. 

To me, one of the greatest, most tangible miracles we have about Jesus is that words of his made it into the Bible at all. There are spiritual truths in those words. There is love in those pages. God’s words don’t need to be argued about. In my opinion, one of the best gauges of God’s words are the ones that can’t really be argued. For example, love your neighbor. Sure, we can be philosophically anal and say that anything can be taken to task. But it’s hard to believe that anyone who believes in God would argue much against those being words we can guide and live our lives by. 

Now take for example the miracle mentioned above. To paraphrase the Bible: Jesus walked on the Sea of Galilee. That can be argued about to the end of time. Perhaps we can draw a line somewhere and say that while we may believe those are God’s words, due to the fact of how much they can be taken to task and argued about, we refrain from calling them God’s words.  

The second but perhaps equal to the greatest tangible miracle above, to me, is that the wrong words didn’t make it into the New Testament. There are, as a matter of plain fact, a lot of hateful words to be found in the Gospels, also. There is a lot of hatred towards Jews, which is one of the greatest ironies of all time, seeing as Jesus and the disciples were all Jewish. But consider this: imagine if it said in the Gospels that anyone who doesn’t believe in the Lord Jesus should be executed. What kind of havoc would that be reaping in the world today?

If only we left it up to each and every person to decide for themselves which are the words of God and which are not. And no one have a vested interest in the need to declare what anyone else ought to believe. 

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