Short Answer
It is understandable that some people struggle to believe everything in the Bible, especially when it includes miracles. However, the existence of the universe itself already requires a cause, and the Bible presents God as the eternal Creator who can both establish and temporarily suspend natural laws. Biblical miracles serve as signs confirming that God has spoken and revealed truth to humanity.
The Overview
Many people find certain parts of the Bible difficult to believe, particularly stories involving miracles such as animals speaking or supernatural events. While skepticism about these accounts is understandable, the larger question is how reality itself came into existence. The very fact that life, consciousness, and the universe exist already points to something extraordinary that requires an explanation.
The Christian worldview begins with the belief that God is the eternal Creator—the “uncaused cause” or “unmoved mover” who brought everything into existence. If God created the universe and established the natural laws that govern it, then it is reasonable to believe that He also has the authority to temporarily suspend those laws when necessary. This is what the Bible refers to as miracles.
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not filled with constant miracles on every page. In fact, recorded miracles are relatively rare and tend to appear during specific periods in biblical history, particularly during the ministries of Moses and Joshua, the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the time of Jesus and the apostles. These miracles served a clear purpose: they confirmed that God was speaking and validating His message.
Ultimately, the Bible is not primarily a book about spectacular supernatural events but about God revealing truth to humanity—showing people their sin, calling them to repentance, and providing the way of salvation. Miracles act as divine verification that the message comes from God, giving credibility to the Scriptures and their claims about human life, morality, and eternal destiny.
Key Takeaways
- Skepticism About Biblical Miracles Is Understandable
Some stories in the Bible may seem difficult to believe at first, especially those involving supernatural events. - The Existence of the Universe Requires an Explanation
The reality that something exists rather than nothing points to a powerful cause behind creation. - God Can Suspend Natural Laws
If God created the laws of nature, He can temporarily suspend them to perform miracles. - Miracles Are Rare in the Bible
Fewer than a hundred miracles are recorded in Scripture, and most occur during key periods of divine revelation. - Miracles Confirm God’s Revelation
Supernatural events serve as signs that God is speaking and that His message should be taken seriously.
The Source — The Speaker Transcript
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All right, let’s look at Brooklyn. Brooklyn’s back. Love your questions, Brooklyn. Let’s see. Uh, can you understand why a person may not believe everything in the Bible? Yes, I can believe that. I I can understand that that they don’t believe everything like a snake or a donkey that uh spoke in Hebrew. Yeah. Well, I don’t know if the snake was speaking in Hebrew because that was before the Tower of Babel. Who knows exactly what they were speaking? Although rabbis like to think that they
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were speaking Hebrew in the garden, but that creates some problems for the Tower of Babel. So whatever language yes they’re speaking communicating through this animal uh the angel threw the donkey and and a demon through the snake uh which was not a snake when that was taking place by the way. Uh this was an animal that was turned into a snake after that. Can you relate to why some people may not believe this? Yes, even if it happens to be true. Well, I believe it is true. Uh and here’s the
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thing about um about reality. The reality that we have is a miracle itself. life itself, Brooklyn, that you and I are sitting here having a conversation through uh the miracle of of uh of the internet and technology. I I just want you to think about really the reality that we are all sitting here looking at things, experiencing things things as sentient beings on this planet, that all of these things had to get here somehow. And of course, if you’re a typical skeptic uh or the skeptic is out there saying, “Well, you
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know, I can’t believe all this. I don’t believe in God. I don’t see him. You should just speak to me if he’s out there. And yet, as Psalm 19 says, everything is screaming from creation. The greatness of God, the glory of God is being declared every day, every morning, every evening, every night. And and this statement is in essence, right? There’s something rather than nothing, which is the great philosophical starting point of of really any good uh thinking. I mean epistemology in general
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like what what are we doing sitting here uh trying to to figure out who we are like the cart said I mean I think therefore I am let’s just start with that I’m a thinking being I must exist now I’m sitting here in a world that I’m computing in my brain all the things I’m seeing where did this come from and of course the the answer from the world at every university in our country except for those that still rely on biblical revelation to inform their worldview they’re going to say well it just
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happened it exploded and it happened in an explosion billions of years ago that operated by a set of physical rules that no longer exist and they’ve been replaced with rules that now make sense and can be relied on in physics and uh that’s how we got here and and so the reality of saying well no there’s a personal God who’s existed eternally as as the philosophers used to say the unmoved mover who put everything into motion and the uh uncaused cause that is the cause for everything the initial
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cause of everything. Uh, and this thinking, sensient, eternal being has spoken things into existence and put them into reality because of his power as creator. I would expect at some point if he ever wanted to communicate to us, he’s going to have to break some rules to get our attention. And that’s what the miracles in the Bible are all about. And they’re not on every page. Uh, Brooklyn, let me just remind you, the Bible’s not filled with miracles. There’s not a miracle in every page.
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Matter of fact, if you look through the Bible, as I’ve done, physically counting every time you see the suspension of natural law, I’m not talking about timing, the providential timing of God, those can be called God acts, and I call them God things. And for sure, God is acting in providence. But when does he break natural law? And he only does that less than a hundred times in the scriptures if you count all of creation week as one. Uh beyond that, we’re dealing with a couple of statements too
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about like Jesus going into a village and healing people and it doesn’t tell us how many. But there are a hundred less than a hundred reports of God breaking natural law. So he’s not doing it all the time. And what’s important to remember is he’s doing it in three primary rashes. If you scatter plot these, you’ll find most of them uh to be during the time of Christ and the apostles. the second most during the time of the prophets of Elijah and Elisha starting the school of the
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prophets who spoke um for the Lord and then the time of Moses and Joshua th that’s where most of them 90% of all the miracles of the Bible that are recorded less than 100 are in those three rashes which produce for us the law the prophets and the new testament in writing so what comes out of these miraculous signs as Hebrews chapter 2 says verses 1-4 for is that they are affirming God speaking that God when he speaks the supernatural in interacts with what we’re used to and that is the rules of nature going on as they always
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do the rules which by the way we need to explain how they got here uh that particular reality reminds us that God is going to have to somehow prove that this isn’t just our our intuition trying to imagine what God is like but God is going to have to speak as Francis Schaefer liked to put it if there is a God and he has spoken But the way that he has spoken is going to have to h somehow be verified. And the verification are these suspensions of natural law. We call them miracles or miracles of the first order. I call them
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GT1s. God thing one. God breaks natural law and basically says, you know, Shazam. I’m here. Uh I’m able to speak now and and give you information that’s going to be eternally true. And that picture of those things, right? They are remarkable. and and and when he allows the tempter in the garden to actually speak to brand new creatures, right? This is the first time God creates something that has at least that we know of in in the history that he’s given us. He’s given us a a physical
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world with human beings that now have this brain, this hardware that’s processing information, right? That the spirits don’t need any of that. They’re sentient beings without that. Ascension, at least in the sense they have intellect, emotion, and will. And here we are now physically sentient beings and we have little bones rattling around in our ears and somehow there has to be some kind of physical communication. And so God allows Satan to manifest himself through some host animal just like we
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have in the New Testament these demons using human beings as hosts to speak through them. Uh and in one case the donkey, you’re right, Balam’s donkey. God allows this angel to come into this donkey to speak. And to make a really clear point, this is God. this isn’t just your servant saying, “Hey, you really shouldn’t be going here uh with Balo uh to curse the Israelites.” But instead, God gives him a miracle. And this particular prophet who then goes on to record prophecies about the coming of
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of Christ, right? This is a millennia before it ever happened. Uh this is an act of God saying, “This is true. This is it.” So God’s not breaking natural law with the the shysters on TV trying to tell you if you send them enough money they’ll give you your miracle. But God has done miracles and and they verify revelation and it’s few and far between over the biblical history that’s recorded for us. It doesn’t happen every day. It doesn’t happen all the time. And
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so I’m going to say, yeah, if there is a God who can create something out of nothing, and even the the most ardent atheistic skeptics are going to have to say, “Well, something happened here to get trees in the garden and a beautiful wife that I married and kids that I hold in and cherish in my arms.” Yeah, there’s going to have to be something instead of the cold vacuum of interplanetary space where there’s nothing. And even before space, space itself, if you think about the Big Bang,
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didn’t exist, right? There was nothing. This is infinitesimally small. And all of a sudden, it became something. And in the something, you give it enough time, it becomes my beautiful baby or my beautiful wife. All of that uh is a creation of something out of nothing. And I’m thinking, no, if there is a God who creates something out of nothing, he’s able to speak to his creation and he’s going to do that by getting their attention through the supernatural. And does that happen? Happens less than 100
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times in scripture. It’s not on every page. A lot of skeptics think every page is it’s like a fable. Every page has got a miracle. It doesn’t. And and and what we have in scripture mostly is God saying, “Here’s what I’m thinking. here’s what you should do. Here’s my word for you to follow. Here’s the way for you to recognize your sin and how to get it fixed. All of that, right, is what God’s trying to get across to us. It’s not a book about, you know, the
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spectacular. There’s more more miracles in Harry Potter, I’m assuming, uh, than you’ll ever find, I haven’t read it, but you ever find in the pages of scripture. So I just think yeah it may be hard to believe but you’re believing something about reality here that it all came from this infinitesimally small small you know reduction of of of of of this infinitesimally small bit of nothing that becomes something because it has to be something and in the old days of uniformitarianism we used to think well
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it just used to always be here. Now of course physics and understanding the laws of physics it can’t always be here. All right. Well, you’re saying more and I’ll get to some of that. Uh, I can relate to it. Yes, I can relate to it. But at some point, I’m going to have to um I’m going to have to say you’re going to have to choose your miracles, right? Your miracles either going to be on the Wikipedia page summarizing the best thoughts of people that believe that something came out of nothing without
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anyone or something came out of nothing with someone. And that’s where the Christians are saying the other. The theists are saying the latter and the atheists are saying the former, the naturalists that say, “Well, all we have is nature. We don’t have anything beyond that. And if you’re going to do that, then you’re going to pick your miracle. You’re going to pick your your a set of laws that don’t work. When Jesus walks on water, as the hydrologist, I went to the university, my roommate, graduate
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student was a hydrologist. Well, he knows that uh the laws of of hydrology don’t allow you to walk on water, right? I’m saying, “No, my savior walked on water.” And it’s like, “No, he didn’t.” And I’m like, “Well, yeah, he did.” And if I say, “Well, where did water come from?” Well, it came from something I can’t explain, and there’s no rules to explain. And I’m just trying to theorize how this thing came through this thing
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called the big bang. I’m going to say, okay, well, I believe that the God who created the laws of nature can also suspend those laws of nature to take to make a point to make a point very clearly that he’s speaking to us. And Jesus spoke to us and said we’re sinners and we need salvation and God’s going to get that right. And I think for the skeptic, he he also has a conscience that he’s working against. And I’m going to work with him by sharing the scripture with him that is affirmed by
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miraculous gifts and miraculous events. Very few of them, less than a hundred, but given to us in scripture. And I’m going to say that leaves us with a book that’s a road map to my conscience. It’s a road map to my destiny. And I better figure this out before it’s too late.
