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Are Miracles Possible?

Can miracles actually happen—or has modern science made belief in the supernatural impossible?

Before we can ask whether the miracles of the Bible actually happened, we have to answer a more basic question: Are miracles even possible?

In this episode of The Actual Answers Podcast, we examine one of the most common objections to Christianity: the claim that miracles violate the laws of nature and therefore cannot—or should not—be believed.

We’ll look at what a miracle actually is, how miracles differ from anomalies, psychosomatic events, providence, and magic, and why the existence of God radically changes the question. If God created the universe from nothing, then turning water into wine, multiplying loaves, or even raising the dead is no longer a question of possibility—it becomes a question of evidence.

We’ll also take on David Hume’s famous argument against miracles and ask whether his reasoning actually disproves miracles—or simply assumes from the beginning that they cannot happen. And we’ll examine the crucial distinction between rare events and regular events: does the fact that something happens only once mean there cannot be sufficient evidence that it happened?

Along the way, we’ll consider objections from science and history and expose the hidden assumption behind much modern skepticism: that every event must have a natural cause.

The argument is simple:

If God exists, miracles are possible.
If miracles are possible, the question is no longer, “Can they happen?”
The question becomes, “Did they happen?”

And that is where the evidence takes us next.

RECOMMENDED READING

C. S. Lewis, Miracles: A Preliminary Study

Norman L. Geisler, Miracles and the Modern Mind: A Defense of Biblical Miracles

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A simple Facebook comment turned into one of the most fascinating apologetics discussions I've had in a long time.

After responding to a common atheist objection, the comment section quickly filled with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics challenging nearly every point I made. Rather than spending days replying one comment at a time, I decided to step back and address the much deeper philosophical questions driving the entire conversation.

In this episode, we examine five of the most common objections raised against Christianity:

• Is atheism really "just a lack of belief"?
• Is biblical faith simply belief without evidence?
• Can evolution explain objective morality?
• Who actually bears the burden of proof?
• Are logical fallacies being used correctly—or simply as rhetorical weapons?

Along the way, we'll discuss worldview, evidence, testimony, scientism, objective morality, the cumulative case for God's existence, and why definitions matter far more than most people realize.

In the second half of the episode, I respond directly to many of the actual comments left by atheists in the discussion, addressing objections about faith, evidence, morality, the Euthyphro dilemma, meaning, naturalism, the burden of proof, and more.

Whether you're a Christian looking to strengthen your thinking or a skeptic wondering how Christians answer these objections, my hope is that this conversation encourages careful reasoning, honest dialogue, and a genuine pursuit of truth.

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The Problem of Evil is often presented as Christianity's greatest intellectual challenge. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly good, why does evil exist at all?

In this episode of Actual Answers with Matt Hazelwood, we tackle that question head-on by walking through one of the clearest and most comprehensive biblical treatments of the problem of evil, following the framework developed by Dr. Norman Geisler.

Rather than offering shallow clichés or emotional platitudes, this episode carefully examines the major philosophical and theological questions surrounding evil, including:

• What evil actually is (and what it is not)
• Where evil came from
• God's sovereignty over evil
• How perfect creatures could choose evil
• How evil could arise if God created everything good
• Why God doesn't immediately eliminate all evil
• The problem of physical suffering
• Why evil continues to persist in the world today

Throughout the episode, we argue that the Christian worldview not only survives these difficult questions—it provides the only coherent foundation for understanding why evil exists, why we recognize it as evil, and how God has decisively defeated it through Jesus Christ while preserving genuine creaturely freedom.

Whether you're wrestling with suffering yourself, responding to skeptical objections, or simply wanting to deepen your confidence in the Christian faith, this episode provides a thoughtful, biblical, and intellectually rigorous treatment of one of the most important questions anyone can ask.

Recommended Resources

• If God, Why Evil? — Norman L. Geisler
• Why Is There Evil in the World (And So Much of It)? — Greg Welty
• The Problem of Pain — C.S. Lewis