Prejudice Blinds Us to Gospel Miracles

"We never saw it on this fashion." The crowds witnessing the paralyzed man's instantaneous healing struggled not with evidence but with expectation. Their prejudice—the conviction that miracles must conform to established precedent—nearly blinded them to Elohim's work.

Joseph Spurgeon identified the trap: prejudice obstructs real knowledge more thoroughly than ignorance itself. When we predetermine what facts ought to be, we erect obstacles steeper than the subject itself. A Jesuit father once rebuked an astronomer for reporting sunspots, insisting Aristotle's silence proved their impossibility. Medieval scholars would have scorned the notion of steam engines propelling men fifty miles hourly.

Yet the Gospel announces precisely such inversions. It declares that Yahweh calls men to accomplish what they cannot accomplish alone—then they accomplish it. The paralyzed man rose at once, without ceremony, perfectly, evidently. Salvation operates identically: instantaneous, unpretentious, complete, undeniable.

The missionary who told African converts that English water froze solid faced their skepticism—until one convert witnessed the Thames bearing his weight. Sense must not imprison faith. New things are often true things. The inconceivable remains possible within Elohim's economy.

If such Gospel transformation has occurred within you, glorify God. Let no prejudice silence your testimony to what you have personally witnessed.