There are natural explanations for many of the miraculous events recounted in the Bible. Walking rocks is an example. The Bible tells us that the people with Moses drank "from the spiritual rock that followed them" during their wilderness wanderings. This is an example of something natural that is understood spiritually. What makes this miraculous is the providential timing.

The mind of fallen man is constrained to contradict God. As the apostle John warns us we are ev-er liable to make God a liar (1John1:10). The witness of our conscience vies with the testimony of the Holy Spirit. Our nature wallows in the slime of deceit and lies and even the regenerate are by no means entirely in the clear. We are susceptible to slipping back into the sludge. Many para-sites may emerge from the ground of our Scriptural principles (e.g.

The findings also indicated that a significant number of evangelical believers reject the term "evangelical." Only 69 percent of evangelicals by belief identify themselves as evangelicals.

LifeWay noted that some studies define "evangelical" by self-identification, where respondents are required to pick from a list of religious traditions. In other surveys, the respondents are distinguished by the churches they identify with.

Martin Luther's exalted aim was to share the benefits of Christ that he so richly enjoyed in seasons of great awareness of the free grace of God and respite from the inner tensions of the spiritual life of which he was fully cognizant and endured many.