What about Miracles and the Supernatural?
Thomas Jefferson one of America’s founders could not accept the supernatural miracles in the gospels, so he extracted them and created The Jefferson Bible. One way we can better understand yesterday’s reality is to look at today’s reality.
For example… In the time of Christ anyone with a mental / physical disorder that caused them to act strange was considered demon possessed. Today using science we have discovered these people were not in fact demon possessed, but disabled.
Many people skeptical of the miracles of the new testament ask…. How come we do not see people being healed today as we did in Jesus day? Recently I have dealt with this question by looking at present reality. I believe that those who wrote these historical stories were doing nothing more then spicing up the text in an attempt to sell Christianity to the masses. In other words if it isn’t happening right under our nose today…. then what better evidence do we have?
Before you mistakenly judge me as an enemy of the supernatural hear me out…. The greatest miracle we have is our next breath. The greatest evidence we have of God’s existence is love. The greatest example of miracles we possess is the universe which to my knowledge was created for us. I don’t believe in dualism and therefore I embrace that we are spiritual, we are connected to everything, what we say and do has a profound impact globally. I believe the human race is spiritually evolving and the simple evidence of this is that some things that were once widely accepted in the world are laughed at today.
Recently I have studied the commonalities of near death experiences. I believe in the scientific research and real life testimonies of near death experiences because people of various cultures, ages and religions tell the same story…. they witness the same accounts.
See examples here -> http://www.nderf.org/NDERF_NDEs.htm
