The Andean god of celestial miracles is appeased, and our friends motor on, having made an uncharacteristically subtle case for taking the occasional ill-advised road trip.
We have defended it for many decades against critics who sought to strip these holy texts of God, miracles, and of any reason for why we might see it as God's word at all.
If God is the author of "miracles," he is also the author of death.
We tell ourselves that we (humans) understand the physical laws of nature, but are skeptical of God when miracles can be explained.
Because miracles had to be observed to be validated, deists rejected the accounts laid out in the Bible of God's miracles and argued that such evidence was neither sufficient nor necessary to prove the existence of God.
No wonder there was much talk of miracles and God.
They continued to pray to God, and, by a miracle of miracles, the modest gravy boat that had been almost empty suddenly ranneth over with copious amounts of gravy.
Not surprisingly, a high percentage of the Chilean population believes in God (96%), the existence of miracles (81%), and even witchcraft (60%) (Adimark-CfK 2007).
RS: Well, speaking of miracles and God's plan and all that sort of thing, what caused you to become a minister?
When Jesus' words reflected the wisdom of God, and his miracles the power of God, even the people of his home town "took offense at him". So what's the consequence of taking offense even at the mention of God's name, and censoring him out?
