Coincidence or Providence?
Chapel at Trinity Seminary, Accra, Ghana
I’ve never cared for Miracles.
They’ve always posed a problem for me. I’m a Christian and an intellectual, for better or worse.
While I’ve always believed in what C.S Lewis calls “the grand miracle”, the incarnation, that never made it any easier. I’ve even believed all of Christ’s miracles, often begrudgingly, but I’ve always had a problem with modern miracles.
Miracles present a problem for the intellectual mind because our post-modern programming tells us there’s an explanation for everything. We’re hesitant to say it’s God, because we know people like to make this stuff up sometimes.
Herein lies the tension. We want to believe, but sadly, we end up needing to prove our beliefs.
With that out of the way, here’s the story.
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theorhetical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on these things let his mouth be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose..”