How does the world try to explain away biblical miracles?
The world tries to explain away biblical miracles by rationalizing them as events that could have occurred naturally through ordinary means. Rather than accepting supernatural intervention, it seeks a mundane explanation, much like claiming engineers built pontoon bridges across the Red Sea rather than acknowledging the miracle-working power of God.
Les teaches that the world wants to somehow rationalize biblical miracles, explaining how they could have happened naturally by ordinary events. He illustrates this with a story about a boy who told his unchurched father that the Sunday school lesson was Moses crossing the Red Sea, but said engineers threw up pontoon bridges and then blew up the Egyptians. When the father questioned it, the boy admitted that was not what they taught, but if he told the truth, his father wouldn't believe it anyway. Les says that is exactly how the world takes these things. But these events aren't ordinary or commonplace; they are the miracle-working power of God. The context also introduces Exodus as the book of redemption, but the key point is the world's tendency to resist the supernatural explanation.