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“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.”
- William Cowper (1731–1800)
The Master told listeners if they had the faith of a mustard seed, they could say to a mountain, “Move,” and it would be done. He also said, “With God, all things are possible.”
Some contemporary expostulators say this is true in the sense that faith would goad people to employ picks, shovels and perhaps a bulldozer in moving a physical mound from one location to another. But that may not have been what Jesus meant.
The concept of ‘ex nihilo,’ creating something out of nothing, is one of the earliest supernatural occurrences as noted in Genesis in the creation of our planet. Being a notion alien to our understanding of how the cosmos otherwise works, that boggles our puny minds.
Our understanding is limited by our intellect. Perhaps one day it may be greater.
It may have never rained before the Great Deluge. In any event, certainly no cataclysmic rainfall.
It took faith on the part of Noah to spend 120 years building something no one had ever seen before. He was likely the butt of derision as he and his sons labored to build a strange contraption of great size. The precise blueprint had been given by One who knew space would be adequate. No humans to whom Noah…
