Miracles and God

Miracle is rather the essence of faith. Faith and the miraculous are indissolubly connected. If miracle is eliminated the dimension of faith also disappears. Miracle is the correlate of the supernatural, of the Living God. When we speak of God we also speak of miracle; that is, if by "God" we mean the true God, the God of revelation, not the God of human speculation. To deny the reality of miracle would be to deny the freedom of God, of the God who is the Lord of the whole world. To see this God at work, who is the free Lord of the world which He has created, means encountering miracle, whether this miracle of the divine action works through the laws of nature or outside them. We do not say this in order to evade the actual "problem of miracles" — this will be clear in a moment — but in order to set the whole problem in its right perspective. The freedom of God is a vital concern for faith, but it is no more and no less concerned with what is called "miracle", or the so-called "miracles", than with the working of God through the constancy of nature and its laws. As against the Deistic view we would say that God is actively at work even where no "miracles" occur; as against the Pantheistic view we would say, that God's working is not confined to the sphere of natural causality. Both the "ordinary", and the "extra-ordinary" action of God, is equally wonderful; for everything that God does is wonderful, for those who see that it is God who does it.—Emil Brunner, The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, 160

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Indeed. Reminds me of C. S. Lewis's argument in Miracles. Life in and of itself is a miracle, wrought by the hand of God. And Romans says the same thing, as does the opening of Psalm 19; for that matter, the Scriptures are full of those kinds of statement. You simply need the eyes of faith to see it.
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