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on vivid display is Jesus the miracle worker. </b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Modern
thinkers tend to be wary of this dimension. For instance, Thomas
Jefferson took a straight razor to the<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> pages of the Gospels</span> and cut out
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">everything that smacked of the supernatural</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>—miracles, exorcisms, and so
on. </b></span>The problem, of course, is that he had to make an absolute mess of
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Mark’s Gospel,</b></span> which <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>is positively chock-a-block with such things.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Jefferson’s
contemporary, the great modern philosopher David Hume, wrote a
powerfully influential text against</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>miracles. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>He claimed that since</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>the
laws of nature were set</b></span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>miracles </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>were, strictly speaking, impossible.</b></span>
Accounts of them, he concluded, were the result of the foggy or wishful
thinking of primitive people.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">But
though God typically lets the universe run according to its natural
rhythms and patterns, what is to prevent God from shaping it and
influencing it occasionally in remarkable ways, in order to signal his
purpose and presence?</span></b></span></b></span></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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