A Presbyterian limited view of miracles
THIS ARTICLE CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES HOW PRESBYTERIANS ARGUE AGAINST ANY FORM OF THE SUPERNATURAL ACTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TODAY USING THE HUMAN CATEGORY ARGUMENT TO JUSTIFY THIER POSITION ARTICLE AUTHOR: R ev . Nicholas T. Batzig Western society has turned the idea of the miraculous into a mere literary tool—an idiom to capture any extraordinary (i.e., a rare, unexpected, or unlikely) happening. “It was a miracle that we made it on time,” a couple exclaims at a dinner party after getting caught in heavy traffic. “He was a miracle worker,” a woman tells her friend as she explains how her counsellor helped turn her marriage around. “It was a miracle that she made it through,” a man says about his mother’s risky surgery. These are a few common ways that our culture has appropriated the word miracle over the past century. At the very least, this tendency reveals that most people label rare, extraordinary, and unlikely providences as miracles. At the same time, many professing belie...