What is faith? What is a miracle? And how are the themes of promise, time, and ambiguity related to all of that?
Has God truly been speaking with us? Is Reality personal? Christians believe God speaks to them and walks with them, but what we’ve explored so far still remains open to the question on whether this is merely one possible way to relate to reality, a subjective way to perceive what reality unfolds in our lives. It is only with the narratives of God’s promise and its fulfillment repeated throughout the Bible that the belief in the truly personal reality of God is established in Christianity. It is in this context, that miracles have any meaning in Christianity.
Thus, the narrative of God making a promise with people and how that promise unfolds is central to Christian account of humanity’s relationship with God. And that is the life-story of Abraham and Sarah.
This leads to the related question of faith. Faith has a dimension those of us today seldom notice, yet is probably the most important: time. Because promise implies waiting, and waiting implies time.
2:03 Ambiguity, not absence, of God that confronts us
9:40 God breaks through the ambiguity with a Promise to Abraham
16:48 What is a miracle? How people today misunderstand
24:28 Faith and personal trust
29:43 Why Time is essential to Miracles and Faith
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