![]() ![]() How do we treat the miraculous healings and events of the Bible? Do we believe in miraculous healing today? These are very pertinent questions to which we need a clear answer, not least because to deny the miraculous is to deny God himself. So the story goes…įor Christian medical students and doctors the issue is a live one. People in Bible times may have been more willing to believe miracle stories, but that is indefensible today. We now know that there are perfectly natural explanations for these and many other phenomena. As far as they are concerned, the Bible was written in a prescientific age when many natural phenomena (eg thunder, lightning, earthquakes) were attributed to direct divine action. This belief is really what is in the minds of most modern western people when they discount the possibility of miracles. It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles. ![]() The theologian Rudolph Bultmann (1884-1976) tried to ‘demythologise’ the teaching of Jesus by stripping away the miraculous. Have you ever been embarrassed by the miracles in the Bible? Have you winced at the thought of defending them? How about the account of creation, the ten plagues of the Exodus, the day the sun stood still, or perhaps some of the healing miracles of Jesus? ![]()
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