Miracles in the Bible - Prof. Dr. Werner Gitt (great books for teens .TXT) 📗

Miracles in the Bible

At first glance miracles seem unrealistic in our time because we are strongly influenced by science. The second half of the last century in particular has seen amazing revelations and progress in scientific and technical fields:

• In 1938 the world’s first programmed computer was presented to the world by German inventor Konrad Zuse (1910–1995).

• On December 3rd, 1967 South African Doctor of Medicine Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001) successfully transplanted a human heart.

• On July 21st, 1969 man first set foot on the moon. Astronaut Neil Armstrong proudly proclaimed his famous statement: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

• In 1996 Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut cloned Dolly the sheep.

These few examples could give us the impression that man’s abilities have no limits; that science can help us accomplish anything. And it’s because of this unshakable faith in science that so many of our contemporaries have great problems with the Bible. They argue that the “Book of Books” describes too many incidences that cannot be explained scientifically. Some of these are:

• the virgin birth

• the raising of the dead

• the blind seeing and the lame walking

• the sun standing still.

In this tract, we are confronted with the phenomenon of miracles in the Bible and ask ourselves, “Can 21st-century man can be reasonably expected to believe them?”. Perhaps we should start by giving

Publication Date: 07-30-2018

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At first glance miracles seem unrealistic in our time because we are strongly influenced by science. The second half of the last century in particular has seen amazing revelations and progress in scientific and technical fields.