Globalism, Part 15: Miracles

David Hume is famous for his writings on miracles. He presents many arguments as to why miracles don’t happen. He asks for proof based on empirical science. Most often, the only proof is eyewitness testimony. Well, he quickly dismantles the validity of eyewitnesses. Actually, he is quite right that eyewitness testimony isn’t a very strong proof. However, if you’ve known somebody their whole life and know that they were blind and now they see, isn’t that a pretty good witness? I guess, my point is that eyewitness testimony’s value could be properly evaluated in continuum format. Basically, how credible is the source? How much did the source witness both before, during, and after the event, etc.

My point in all of this is that I think our world is going to turn on David Hume. He wrote during the Enlightenment when man was “becoming” God himself. He no longer explained everything by “God.” What happened in the natural world happened because the world is orderly of its own accord. This leads to evolution and the death of God movement. I think our world, during the 21st Century, is going to return to the belief in miracles. However, it won’t be through the old system. What I think is going to happen is a synthesis of the religious miracle and the scientific. That is, science is going to discover “the way” people are healed. Ever wonder how miracles happen in other religions, cults? David Hume used this as a reason as to why miracles don’t happen. If your individual religion teaches that it is the only one to know God, and God is the one who causes miracles, then other religions shouldn’t have miracles. Basically, I believe science is genuinely going to pick up on a power. What ancient people understood has been thrown aside as “mysticism” by the scientific community. In the future, miracles will be embraced by science.

Oprah’s “The Secret.” Star Wars’ “The Force.” Pseudo-Christianity’s “Positive Confession Movement.” These are all examples of the use of a “force” to bring about miracles/positive things. All humans have access to the power of what was thought to be “supernatural.” How so? Well, the Christian viewpoint is that we have access to a God who can, via prayer, decide to suspend his natural laws for the sake of the individual and for his greater purpose. To the witch, he/she has the ability to chant a mantra and conjure up the powers of “the earth.” This is known as “black magic.” The Positive Confession Movement within our own churches is actually sorcery. To try to force God to do something based on his word is sorcery. Be careful in how you use God’s word. Don’t take a verse out of context and “speak” it out and say “God will do this or he will be a liar, and God cannot lie, so he will do.” The Devil tried this maneuver in Matthew 4:6-7. He used Scripture as a reason for Jesus to “force” God to do something.

“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Matthew 4:6-7

You aren’t God and you don’t use “rayma” words to make God do anything. He is sovereign. As far as miracles becoming scientific, that is just an idea/prediction of mine. I truly believe science and religion are going to merge in the coming years. Right now they are polar opposites. Science is all about methodology and repetition. Think about sorcery with its steps including specific chants for specific results. Sounds like the scientific method to me. Think about that passage in revelation about the beast being healed of a deadly wound and it shocks the world. Is this beast and the false prophet going to know about this “scientific truth”? I hope you realize that I’m still saying that miracles come from the supernatural. I’m just saying that they can come from God or from demonic forces. This explains how a miracle can happen outside of Christianity. I just believe that the scientific community of the 21st Century is going to pick up on this possibility, but misunderstand it as science when it is actually black magic. Think about the rise of eastern philosophies regarding wellness. Consider yoga and terms such as “aura” and “energies.” “For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible.” (Matt. 24:24)

The Positive Confession Movement within Christianity teaches that prayer using the word creates the miracle. God gives us the ability, and we must “have enough faith to call it out.” Don’t you see how prayer has been converted into a “chant”? God is not to be put into a box and turned into an equation where if we do A and B we will get C. God gives by grace and sovereignty, not because you did A and B.