The Explanation on Miracles 神蹟的解釋

作者：Tasha

譯者：Joyce

Thank Tasha for the explanation on miracles:
謝謝Tasha對神蹟的解釋

The human body can heal itself in amazing ways that look like miracles but are not true miracles, just the amazing ability God gave the human body to repair itself. 

人體能夠以令人驚異有如神蹟的方式自癒，但這並非真正的神蹟，而是神給予人體神奇的能力來修復自己。

Look at The Iceman, William Hof. If you go visit him, he can train your body to go hiking in the snow, barefoot, wearing nothing but shorts, and not feel cold or suffer harm. 

看看冰人William Hof的例子。如果你去拜訪他，他可以訓練你的身體在雪中健行，光著腳，除了短褲沒穿甚麼，卻不感到冷或受傷。

He sits in freezing water and doesn't get hypothermia. And he can train visitors to do the same. 

他坐在冰水中，卻沒有得到低體溫症。並且他能夠訓練拜訪者做到同樣的事。

But this is not a miracle, it is just tapping into the body's full potential. A miracle has to be something beyond the body's full potential, or it's not a miracle. 

但是這並非神蹟，而只是利用身體完全的潛力。神蹟必須是某件超越身體全部潛能的事情，否則就不是神蹟。

The Bible says, “... let God be found true, though every man be found a liar” (Romans 3:4) 

聖經說：「…神是真實的，人都是虛謊的。」(羅3:4)

So we start with the Bible and weed out the explanations that don't fit. 

所以我們從聖經開始，然後除掉不合乎聖經的解釋。

1. The Bible says only the apostles could give another person the power to do miracles. (Acts 8)

聖經說，只有使徒能夠給予其他人行使神蹟的能力 (使8)。

2. The apostles are now dead. 

使徒現在已經死去。

3. The people they gave the power to do miracles too are also now dead. 

得到使徒授予行神蹟能力的那些人，現在也已經死亡。

4. So there are no more miracles. 

所以不再有神蹟了。

5. However, there is still:

然而，仍然有：

a. Amazing things the body can do, that we don't often know about, or don't often use. 

我們不常知道，或不常使用的，身體能行出的驚人事情。

b. God's providence: God arranging for a better natural thing to happen, rather than a worse natural thing.

神的應許：神安排較好的自然事件，而不是較差的自然事件發生。