earl40
Puritan Board Professor
Setting aside the issue that demonstrating there are marks in the account to suggest phenomenology, I have to wonder about "miracles" that only occur at a phenomenological level. If what is naturally (the nature of the thing) happening is but a chimera of appearing to happen, what do we say about the supernatural? Is the supernatural simply something that appears to be "way beyond" the appearance? Further, how do we adopt a phenomenological view of the Joshua account without first knowing how Scripture presents cosmology such that we can then claim something is appearing to happen? For example, Scripture defines the earth as round and the sun moving about relative to the earth. Unlike science, which is ever evolving and resolving past contradictions as it makes new discoveries, Scripture is not evolving (i.e., it is closed) so we should not expect to find contradictions in our closed canon.
Well we have Jesus casting out devils described in a nominalistic sense in The Gospels. In other words, it is describing miracles that were perceived in a superstitious way.