Origen 248AD

Is a miracle necessarily something that violates God’s good natural laws? Scripture never says that a miracle violates natural law. It could simply be that when God performs a miracle, He is acting in perfect harmony with His own natural laws—laws He understands far better and more completely than we do.

Think of it like the magicians (or “natural philosophers”) of old who knew principles of electricity or magnetism that were unknown to most people. They used that superior knowledge to create effects that astonished and amazed their audiences.

This view resolves some philosophical problems: it means God is not contradicting or violating His own good natural laws when He performs a miracle. What appears contrary to nature is really just the result of God’s complete and perfect knowledge of those laws.

He would be infinitely more superior than the magicians!

“He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; He does great things past finding out, Yes, wonders without number. If He goes by me, I do not see Him; If He moves past, I do not perceive Him; If He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who can say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’” – Job 9:9-11

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11