One of the major objections to miracles is that they violate natural
law. Critics argue that natural law is immutable, therefore natural
law cannot be violated.
If there was no God, then this might be true. But where did the laws
of nature, physics, energy and matter come from? How did they originate?
Did these laws of such incredible precision and orderliness create themselves?
Those who deny a Creator have no answers.
But if God is real, we would expect that miracles-in exactly
the way they are recorded for us in the Gospels-would be a very
reasonable part of the life of One who wanted to prove His divine identity
to those around Him.
Strictly speaking, Jesus did not perform miracles on His own, having
given up that divine power (Philippians 2:6-8). He clearly said He did
not have the ability to perform supernatural works on His own, saying, "the
Son can do nothing of Himself" and "I can of Myself do nothing" (John 5:19,30). Obviously, then, Jesus relied on God the Father to perform
the many miracles that characterized His ministry (John 14:10).
And for God, the omnipotent Creator who designed the laws of nature,
it is nothing to supernaturally intervene in the creation to carry out
what we might deem impossible. Jesus said: "With God all things are
possible" (Matthew 19:26).
