AP101 Post:
I am currently taking the AP101 course and wanted to ask if anyone else has taken this and what their insights are to the segment that discusses miracles. With the understanding that God can do anything, we are asked about what miracle we have the most difficulty believing. I was curious about what others may have thought and why? I don't question the resurrection. The miracle that I have a struggle with is Jesus feeding thousands of people. He had some fish and a few loaves of bread and managed to feed thousands of people. The reason this is an issue is that I cannot imagine how this process worked. How did Jesus multiple food sources for thousands of people? I know it was divine but wish there was a way to interpret this process in my mind. Did Jesus instantly generate fish and have them bursting out of the containers that the disciples were carrying? Or did the fish start as baby fish and grow up to be eaten? Were they cooked, or were they raw?
So back to the original question...What miracle do you have trouble believing or understanding and why? Thanks!
- I haven't seen the videos above, but I might say that God did create animals by speaking, considering Jesus' identity, He could do it again with more than 5000 witnesses at the time.
- The miracles I have the most challenging time wrapping my head around is specifically: water aka H2O and all the miracles that God the Father and Jesus The Christ and lest we forget the beginning of our bibles...The Holy Spirit has done with them. Not to mention all the plugs throughout the entire Bible of ‘rivers of living waters’.
- My second most pressing question I’d like to ask God in a face to face fashion is “How Exactly: Jesus!?” .....is what I mean by this is that there are more simplistic scientific plausible explanations for how Jesus Christ came into being. Okay, then there’s all what, 333 Old Testament prophecies laid out over the millennia that Jesus doesn’t skip a beat in fulfilling. And, then there’s these simplistic Maths of Probabilities which can also explain His Fulfillment of Scripture to the proverbial ‘Letter-T’. But none only other than “God The Father, God The Creator, God The Omnipresent-Omnipotent-Omniscient” can explain how ‘He-Himself’ the very ‘Three-In-Onesies’ can “Allow Himself to Become His Very Own Selfsame-Sadomasochistic-Self”: In That Jesus (also known as God) Experienced ‘ALL of Humankind’s’ Allotment Of Punishments’ ‘For Mankind’s Sins’ From Himself (God The Father, God The Creator, etc...) Upon His-selves (God The Son along with God The Holy Spirit) Too!? My next question(s) is this..... How can “{GOD}” Inflict GOD and GOD with anything other than GOD’s’ Sovereignties of: Glory, Power, Love, Goodness, Perfection, and Righteousness!? I’ll try and phrase it this way...... God, God, and God are all three Equal; to the exclusion of ALL else: both, individually and in Any Combinations-Permutations Amongst Themselves. So, ..... God, God, and God are ALL THREE ‘NOT’ THE AUTHOR OF BAD/ EVIL/ IMPERFECTION/ CONFUSION ....... Yet At Minimum ‘A God’( or the Gods) Uses ‘His’ (Their) Powers Of Perfection To The Full Extent Of Perfecting The Imperfection To A State Of Perfected Imperfection After Having “Punished The Punishers” (repaid evil in kind) Under ‘His’ (their) Righteous Sovereignties....... Just Bubble Gum For The Mind! In Christ: B-Well-B