The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

290 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.place in history, as that which records thesupernatural attributes belonging to His personality.To the question, How do the works of Jesusstand related to the laws of nature? thenext portion of the answer is that they donot conflict with these laws in any intelligiblesense. The believer in Christ's miracles,as he meets the manifest requirements ofscience, may fairly ask of scientific criticsthat they state any law of nature which wasviolated in any example of the Saviour's benevolentdoings, in a sense of the word " violation" which conflicts with the indubitableteaching of science concerning the unchangeablenessof the laws of nature. It might wellsuffice for exposition of Christian thought atan earlier period of Bible interpretation whenthe sole object was to set forth the transcendentgrandeur of Christ's works, to representa miracle as " a violation of the laws of nature,"meaning thereby to concentrate on thefact that equally by its character, and byprofession of the agent, it was a work whichordinary power was insufficient to explain.By pwity of reasoning, it may equally be allowedthat a legitimate course is followed,