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The Visible Hand of God: Or the Miracles, Signs, and Wonders Which Have Occurred in the Past Dealings of God with the Nation of Israel
The Visible Hand of God Or the Miracles Signs and Wonders Which Have Occurred in the Past Dealings of God with the Nation of Israel Author:Robert Roberts General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: R. Roberts Subjects: Religion / General Religion / Inspirational Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get... more » free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNING OF THINGS NECESSARILY MIRACULOUS. PIE present aim will be to rehearse the miraculous occurrences testified, with the object of illustrating the nature of them, and their necessity for accomplishing the end in view." In carrying out the plan sketched in these words at the close of the last chapter, we might begin with the first chapter of Genesis. Here we have marvel enough of the miraculous order. " God said, ' Let there be light,' and there was light," and so with other things : his word produced the result. It is not foreign to the subject to realise in passing that such must have been the beginning of things. It is the scientific fashion to believe that things have " evolved " themselves. But this is a mere speculation. That is, it is a guess suggested by certain facts on the surface of things that look in that direction, but which are capable of another explanation. It is a guess inconsistent with other facts : a guess hazarded by one or two clever men, and taken up and re-echoed by thousands of mediocrities : a guess, however, rejected by men of equal scientific eminence to the originators of it, and refused by a large section of the scientific community. As a guess, it is not like most scientific conclusions -- demonstrated truth ; it is a mere theory in the air that has rapidly become popular because of its tendency to liberate from the obligations associated with the Scriptures. It is a guess effectually demolished when the resurrection of Christ is established ; for with the resur...« less