WORKS OF POWER (23 OF 56)
Scripture: Acts 9:32-43
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Works of Power (23 of 56)
Series: The Church in ACTSion
Wyman Richardson
Acts 9:32-43
Read Acts 9:32-43
There is something in the human condition that simply does not want to acknowledge the miraculous power of God in the world. Some years ago, for instance, I clipped the following article from The Washington Times.
Study: Red Sea parting was possible
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Russian mathematicians have determined the legendary parting of the Red Sea that let the Jews flee Egypt was possible, the Moscow Times reported.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, focused on a reef that runs from the documented spot where the Jews escaped Egypt, which in Biblical times, was much closer to the surface, according to Naum Volzinger, a senior researcher at St. Petersburg's Institute of Oceanology, and a colleague based in Hamburg, Alexei Androsov.
The mathematicians calculated the ''strong east wind that blew all that night'' mentioned in the Bible needed to blow at a speed of 67 miles per hour to make the reef, said Volzinger, who specializes in ocean phenomena, flooding and tidal waves.
''It would take the Jews -- there were 600,000 of them -- four hours to cross the 4.2-mile reef that runs from one coast to another. Then, in half an hour, the waters would come back,'' he said.
The Egyptian army that followed them drowned in the sea.
''I am convinced that God rules the Earth through the laws of physics,'' Volzinger told the Times.
So there you have it! Or consider this article from Live Science.
Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says
Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today.
The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch ...
Series: The Church in ACTSion
Wyman Richardson
Acts 9:32-43
Read Acts 9:32-43
There is something in the human condition that simply does not want to acknowledge the miraculous power of God in the world. Some years ago, for instance, I clipped the following article from The Washington Times.
Study: Red Sea parting was possible
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Russian mathematicians have determined the legendary parting of the Red Sea that let the Jews flee Egypt was possible, the Moscow Times reported.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, focused on a reef that runs from the documented spot where the Jews escaped Egypt, which in Biblical times, was much closer to the surface, according to Naum Volzinger, a senior researcher at St. Petersburg's Institute of Oceanology, and a colleague based in Hamburg, Alexei Androsov.
The mathematicians calculated the ''strong east wind that blew all that night'' mentioned in the Bible needed to blow at a speed of 67 miles per hour to make the reef, said Volzinger, who specializes in ocean phenomena, flooding and tidal waves.
''It would take the Jews -- there were 600,000 of them -- four hours to cross the 4.2-mile reef that runs from one coast to another. Then, in half an hour, the waters would come back,'' he said.
The Egyptian army that followed them drowned in the sea.
''I am convinced that God rules the Earth through the laws of physics,'' Volzinger told the Times.
So there you have it! Or consider this article from Live Science.
Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says
Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today.
The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch ...
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