Yes, I do. But what is more interesting about these miracles is how cheesy they are and how reluctant he was to use any worldly power at all. What is more interesting is Jesus's complete voluntary submission to natural processes.
JAy:
Your faith is far stronger than mine.
I eventually try to reconcile the empiric with the metaphysical. When I watch astronomy shows or go to NASA image galleries online I initially feel overwhelmed trying to wrap my mind around such incredible vastness. I just begin to grasp it when it just kind of falls apart leaving me kind of dissolute.
Then when I go to the extremely small say cellular level and try to comprehend just how with such few genes my features can so uncannily resemble my Grandfathers, I realize how very little we actually know about how life processes really work (must be gene folding). Even String Theory, which may never be falsifiable, with its somewhat metaphysical qualities compels me to believe in a God. I know, atheists look at the same thing and conclude there is no God (it is merely hubris or possibly a lack of wonder).
So as far as the Miracles go I would at one time try to explain them rationally. Now I simply say they are not important to me if they were actual miracles or not. The Universe to me seems to indeed have been a throw of the dice by God (who cares what Einstein says) except that it is a well planned throw. So well planned that the guy born next door to Jesus might have been the Messiah. That Jesus (or a Jesus) was inevitable, simply a product of evolution. Jesus may even have suffered delusions or been genetically ‘flawed’ to believe himself the Messiah. It doesn’t matter to me. That was God’s plan. He was and is the son of God and the Messiah.
I don’t believe there is necessarily a dichotomy between the empiric and the metaphysical. This is long enough. Sorry.
Spiker
P.S. Yes, I have spent time deconstructing rationalist and their basic idea that only they can see truth with empirical methods.
P.P.S. Please expand on "What is more interesting is Jesus's complete voluntary submission to natural processes."