August 8, 2013

MIRACLES & FIXED LAWS: A STABLE WORLD

"That God can and does, on occasions, modify the behavior of matter and produce what we call miracles, is part of Christian faith; but the very conception of a common, and therefore stable, world, demands that these occasions should be extremely rare."
 
"So it is with the life of souls in a world: fixed laws, consequences unfolding by casual necessity, the whole natural order, are at once limits within which their common life is confined and also the sole condition under which any life is possible."
 
-C. S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)

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