(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . subject we see the hand of G-od. The re-s^orrection w-as a miracle! This is precisely the elementthat the modern mind has difficulty with. Science, iis thought, opposes any occurence of events due to direct,jdivine intervention. Sucn woula be a disturbance of thejjunity of the whole system. Any system v/hich excludes aliving Personal God as the Author and Upholder of the world,must deny this miracle. Our approach, then, is the purelyChristian viev/ - that God rules events in this universe inwhich we live. Picf. Lake says, Once postulate .-t God
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . subject we see the hand of G-od. The re-s^orrection w-as a miracle! This is precisely the elementthat the modern mind has difficulty with. Science, iis thought, opposes any occurence of events due to direct,jdivine intervention. Sucn woula be a disturbance of thejjunity of the whole system. Any system v/hich excludes aliving Personal God as the Author and Upholder of the world,must deny this miracle. Our approach, then, is the purelyChristian viev/ - that God rules events in this universe inwhich we live. Picf. Lake says, Once postulate .-t God who hasruoral aims and over-rules causes and events, and it is hardto see why, for high ends of revelation and redemption, a super-natural economy should not be engri^.fted on the natural. !>Huxley and s y there is no scientific impossibilityto the miracle. it is a question of evidence upon which alllaws of nature or science are based. A miracle is none ^^her than the interposition of a new causae^ _&§.^ushnell.,^y5^,*(p. 277). 50. !l I! is wrought in accordance with a purpose. Thus a miracle decidedly compatible with the idea of evolution which is so ii strongly held today. i In discussing the miracle of the resurrection inThe Essence of Religion, Profersor Borden P. Eowne agreesfunda^ntally with our attitude tov/ard this miracle of mijra-cles. The miracles of Christianity cannot be discussedpiecemeal, but as parts of a system, says he (). jChristianity an ever-living, ever-working God, ;,he ifurthei states. His position is uhut ones general con^jelusion in this subject cannot depend chiefly on argumentalone, but also more fundamentally on ones world view ar|d//moral and religious sympathies and tendencies. If one iS i essentially irreligious, there is little use talking to himof the resurrection of Jesus for his mind is closed in The real • uestion here is not that of the many iquestions which we have raised, but primarily it is the j
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