Nature Does Not Prohibit Miracles
This words of wisdom talks about jesus life.
There is no fundamental reason for ruling out the possibility of miracles. Although you often hear people say things like ‘the Laws of Nature prohibit miracles’, such statements betray a misunderstanding of what these laws are about. What scientists call ‘laws’ are simply a provisional description of those principles by which the universe has been observed to work. They do not - and cannot - rule out the possibility of those principles changing. In the bible, God is described as the one who keeps every part of the universe going, whether it is in the big things like the rising of the sun or in the tiny things like the growth of a plant.
So any ‘Laws of Nature’ are simply a record of how God normally works and, as the Being who both made the universe and keeps it going, God has a perfect right to do something different. On that basis, any Laws of Nature can only describe what has been seen to happen; they cannot prescribe what must happen. In the fifth century Saint Augustine wrote, ‘Miracles are not contrary to nature; but only contrary to what we know about nature.’
The Life pp. 127-128
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