"I'm too educated now to believe in miracles. Supernatural claims are pre-scientific superstition."
How it sounds in your head: He's studied naturalism, methodological materialism, Hume's argument against miracles. Believing in resurrection or healings feels like believing in magic—something people did before they understood medicine and physics. Hasn't science closed the door on the supernatural?
"By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible."
-- Hebrews 11:3World: Enlightenment worldview that assumes material reality is all there is, that miracles are violations of nature rather than the Author intervening.
Every professor he respects treats supernatural claims as mythology. Medical explanations for 'healings,' psychological explanations for 'spiritual experiences'—it all sounds more reasonable than 'God did it.'
Lazarus was dead FOUR DAYS, body decomposing, Martha said 'he stinks.' Jesus called him out of the tomb alive. No medical explanation, no natural process—just the voice of the Creator overriding biology in an instant.
I REFUSE the lie that education and miracles are incompatible. IT IS WRITTEN: the worlds were framed by God's word—things seen made from things invisible. If God spoke matter into existence, He can override biology. Lazarus was dead and decomposing, and Jesus called him out—Martha the realist said 'he stinks,' but Jesus said 'he's coming out.' IT IS WRITTEN: Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever—He didn't stop doing miracles when we invented the scientific method. I am Abraham's seed, the BARAK blessing includes supernatural intervention. The same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead lives in me—I don't live in a closed material system. I live in the Kingdom where the Creator still speaks to His creation.
The Father who encoded DNA and designed quantum mechanics isn't threatened by your science degree. He's inviting you to see that the God who set natural law in motion is free to intervene in it, not as violation but as Author's privilege.