My first point is then that you have to take Jesus with his powers or signs. But the next point is that you must not identify these with miracles. It is no good going to a philosophic or scienti"c vocabulary if you are dealing with a Gospel word. If you press me about "miracles" in the poplar sense of the word, I am free to reply that there are not any in he Gospel story. I mean that the evangelists never speak of them but always of powers and siges, and if you are anxious to know what these writers really mean it is obviously a mistake to import a word they were not prepared to use. Miracle, as we understand it, belongs to a stage of thought whith had not emerged in the days of the New Testament, and moreover it has already been left behind. It presupposes a view of the universe which was not born then and is now dead. What we have to do then, it seems to me, as Christian believers, is not to argue about "Jaws of Nature" which are a modern revelation, but to gear up our faith to the faith of the disciples which was based on the original personal, revelation. Ve are not] invited to believe in miracles but in Jesus, the Word and the Power of God. 3
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