p. 405 | Miracles by EPSILON

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 26.

Miracles.

By EPSILON

IN these “perilous times,” some Christians apologize for the miracles recorded in the Bible, and use such words as these: “All miracles may be wrought by fixed and immutable laws of which we know nothing.” But do they consider from whom the expression, “fixed and immutable laws,” is borrowed? Certainly not from prophets and apostles. Did the prophets and the apostles believe in fixed and immutable laws? Could they believe in such laws and also believe in God? When we consider, does not this alternative force itself upon the mind—either nature with nature's laws is all the God there is or ever was, or else nature with nature's laws came into existence through the miraculous power of a Creator? Is not the Creator master of what he created, and is he not superior to the laws of nature that he established?

Who that thinks would assert that God established “fixed and immutable laws” to govern himself? Would it not be gross idolatry in us to worship a god that needs a governor? What folly to suppose, for a moment, that the Almighty cannot at any time suspend the laws of nature! What else could we expect than that God would at times suspend the laws of nature, and thus prove to man that he is God, and that nature's laws are not “fixed and immutable.”

Nature with its laws is but God's machinery. Man can stop, start, make, and destroy man's machinery. God can stop, start, create, and destroy God's machinery. The atheist would have us believe that because puny man cannot deal with God's machinery as with man's machinery, therefore God himself cannot control his works. He that believes that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead after being pierced through the heart, necessarily believes in the Almighty—the Miracle-worker.

Fellow Christian, let the atheist talk about “fixed and immutable laws;” let the evolutionist talk of his wonderful dream of “hit and miss,” and uphold the false principle that the less created the greater. Let the geologist declare that he has upset Moses, when in reality he has only upset other geologists; but let us Christians walk by faith and not by deceitful sight. Let us look with an eye of faith beyond the very small circle of man's mixture of true and false knowledge. Let us trust the great Miracle-worker who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead, and who will through Jesus also raise us up, “at that day,” to enjoy an endless life. EPSILON.