The miracles that happen in the Bible, are they real real events? or are they metaphorical real events?

Answer 1

The miracles of the Bible were real events. We have evidence outside the Bible that bears witness to some of them. For example, Herodotus writes about the massive army that Sennacherib had outside Jerusalem, which was destroyed in one night (2 Kings 19:35). Sennacherib himself refers to this on his famous prism that was discovered. Of course, there is significant evidence for the greatest of miracles, the resurrection of Jesus. There was eyewitness testimony to it (1 Corinthians 15:1-9). The apostles faced danger because they preached that Jesus rose from the dead. People do not risk their lives for something they know to be false (1 Corinthians 15:30-32). Furthermore, it is the miracles of the Bible that give evidence to believe. John recorded 7 miracles to produce belief in Jesus as the Christ (John 20:30-31). To John, those events were by no means metaphorical but real events that he witnessed with his own eyes. The Bible nowhere indicates them to be merely metaphorical, and, in fact, the idea that they were metaphorical does not surface in history until around the time of the "Enlightenment."