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Although I can't really spell out in detail (much less defend) my views on this issue on the orthodox forum, I can give you some food for thought. I can challenge you to rethink the biblical data.
Don't get me wrong. I'm orthodox in the sense of being a Nicene-creed adhering, bible-believing, born-again Christian. That's why I don't like to spend much time in unorthodox forums debating with people who deny the Trinity and Christ's deity.
I find it very disturbing, however, that for the last 2000 years, the church has bought into a kind of wizard/sorcerer/magician view of God. He merely opens His mouth, utters an abracadabra or a hocus pocus, and BAM! Suddenly miracles start happening.
'Miracle' is actually a questionable translation of the Greek terms at issue, as this article almost seems to suggest.
http://custardy.blogspot.com/2006/09/miracles-word-study.html
In my view, the biblical 'miracles' (such as healings) are not works of sorcery. Instead, a healing, for example, is the great PHYSICIAN performing a work of surgery by His own hands, the same hands that formed Adam at the outset. The power He wields is not qualitatively differently than your own, rather it is quantitatively different - He is simply stronger, more knowledgeable, and more deft than you (exponentially so).
Food for thought....
Don't get me wrong. I'm orthodox in the sense of being a Nicene-creed adhering, bible-believing, born-again Christian. That's why I don't like to spend much time in unorthodox forums debating with people who deny the Trinity and Christ's deity.
I find it very disturbing, however, that for the last 2000 years, the church has bought into a kind of wizard/sorcerer/magician view of God. He merely opens His mouth, utters an abracadabra or a hocus pocus, and BAM! Suddenly miracles start happening.
'Miracle' is actually a questionable translation of the Greek terms at issue, as this article almost seems to suggest.
http://custardy.blogspot.com/2006/09/miracles-word-study.html
In my view, the biblical 'miracles' (such as healings) are not works of sorcery. Instead, a healing, for example, is the great PHYSICIAN performing a work of surgery by His own hands, the same hands that formed Adam at the outset. The power He wields is not qualitatively differently than your own, rather it is quantitatively different - He is simply stronger, more knowledgeable, and more deft than you (exponentially so).
Food for thought....