Summary Of Miracles By C. S. Lewis

Miracles,the sea parted to let the israelites go through,lazarus raised from the dead, fire falling from the sky.The Bible tells about such wonders, and we see them as interventions from God, showing of His power over all of creation, and proof of His sovereignty. We are amazed by them. But the unbelievers will see things differently. They will despise and laugh it all off as myth, as something belonging with the league of fairy tales. In this book Miracles, C.S. Lewis challenges to the world that many do not believe in miracles anymore. He tackles the widely and most obvious thing that the supernatural occurrences are impossible, and establishes that the basis for such argument is not is not a deep knowledge of science

He indicates this as naturalism, a basic belief that the physical world, what is around us is all what it is and it came into existence by a force that no one knows its origin and this bring the idea of supernaturalism.which argues for the role of causes other than factors in the natural world (such as a God). But then he points out that naturalism, which doesn’t allow for a God to have His power in the world and its function. This is a faulty way of looking at existence. Naturalism tell us that physical causes lead to physical effects, but it doesn’t help us understand those events in ways that we can say and conclude the origin of all what is going on around us , or explain why we can even think about such processes rationally. In short, he says, naturalism cannot tell us why rational thought is possible, since it only proposes material things as causes- and the mind, which thinks, is not physical. Consciousness, Lewis asserts, must have an origin that is ‘out of this