An Epic Journey

I was thinking today about how unbelievable some of the miracles in the bible are. Whales eating a guy and spitting him back on shore, bodies of water splitting and the land drying up so that people could walk across it, and many more. At first I was thinking about how hard it is to believe those things.
Then I started to think about God and His nature. I started to think about the fact that if there is a God (which I believe all creation begs that question), then I would only expect grand expressions of His power in the universe. I would expect that He would be able to flood the earth & change water to wine. A God that is only capable of working within the natural laws as we know is not much of a God at all. If He is limited by time, space, gravity, thermodynamics – then how can He be God? It would seem to me that the audacious claim of a miracle lends credibility to the story rather than taking it away.
So, I do not believe in God because of the miracles – but I do believe in the miracles because I believe in God. My belief in God is based in historical evidence (read Josephus – look at the dead sea scrolls – search biblical archaeology), and personal experience (my encounter with Jesus has changed me more than any other event in my life) and the idea of miracles only makes more sense within the paradigm of a God who is infinite in resource and power!

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