God Not Capable of the SuperNatural?
I usually don't talk about politics or religion here but...
I hate this kind of thing. Either God is God and is capable of doing things like creating the world, parting the sea or healing a blind man or He is not. So next are we going to calculate that just enough spit and just enough clay is enough to make a blind man see? Or just enough balm, linen and the right temperate was enough to bring Christ back from the dead? God does not need our permission or understanding to part the Red sea. That is great that there is a reef and that a wind could expose it etc. But come on, if He really is God then he could lift the whole sea out of it's bed and then drop it again, or make it all evaporate. Or do just as the text says, make the waters into a wall on the right and the left. There is no way to explain God with physics, sure He set up the laws and mostly lets then run on their own. But if we reduce Him to a follower of the rules of physics the important stuff (like the virgin birth, the resurrection) becomes impossible and makes God irrelevant. Either He is God or He's not.
That reef area is not even the right spot. Moses describes the surrounding mountainous area, and the approach to the crossing, and specifically refers to the Red Sea. (The reefs are on the Med).
Any way, to Bill's point, the only thing "attractive" about the reef idea, is its potential for factoring out any supernatural event.
Posted by Chris Noe on January 23, 2004 at 10:02 AM MST #