(July 1, 2014)
Modernists
love to believe that the Bible, and its references to familiar spirits
and so forth, is superstitious drivel that only a pre-modern, credulous people
would accept. But I do not believe we
can so easily say that. After all, if I
were attempting to lead people astray in a skeptical, modern (and post-modern)
world, I would certainly do everything that I could to ensure that scientific
endeavors to verify supernatural events resulted in data that appeared within
the margin of error. Can we not see the
same in Satan’s actions? Scientific
studies can only be relied upon if there is no active participation (on either
side of the Veil) that would skew the results.
We can understand how the Lord might want there to be no statistically significant
results (meaningful agency and the rarity of active Divine intervention), and
we can likewise understand why the Adversary might actively be involved in
attempting to preclude statistically significant results. So when they should we assume that such
supernatural events are non-existent (especially when we may have personal
experience with those events in our lives).
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