“History,” writes Eric Metaxas in the introduction to his book entitled
Miracles, “comprises subjective accounts of human beings, and from those subjective accounts we arrive at an ‘objective’ truth” (xii). He asserts that we need to ask ourselves whether those subjective accounts are reliable by sifting through the information and considering the witnesses as one would do in a court of law.
This, he says, is what we must do when we hear accounts of miracles. We must “examine (them) with the greatest rigor possible” to determine whether something is truly a miracle. Otherwise, we could deserve the label of “gullible” that those who reject the very idea of supernatural events sometimes use to describe us.
