"That's Impossible!"

Christian musical artist Michael Gungor has caused quite a stir due to some recent posts on his personal blog. First let me say I’d never heard of him until today due to this. He is in the category of Christian Contemporary Worship music and I am definitely off in another direction (heavy metal / hardcore like Sleeping Giant, For Today, Those Who Fear, Gideon, etc.). I found his comments intriguing and perhaps becoming more common in his generation (he is 33) and other younger Christians.

Mr. Gungor questions the veracity of the Biblical flood narrative and the ark in Genesis. Basically he says it is scientifically impossible. First let me say I agree. Next let me say this as well (please stick with me and don’t click away until the end):

• Creating the universe in 6 literal days is impossible!
• Flooding the entire world with 40 days and nights of rain is impossible!
• Saving members of all land dwelling life on one big boat is impossible!
• Joseph’s story of slavery, imprisonment and rise to be Pharaoh’s right hand man is impossible!
• Parting the Red Sea so the Jews could walk across on dry land is impossible!
• Feeding a population of people in the desert with a mysterious food called “manna” for 40 years is impossible!
• Marching around the fortified city of Jericho for a week and then merely playing trumpets and shouting to collapse the walls is impossible!
• Gideon and a rag tag band of 300 men armed with torches and trumpets defeating a battle-hardened group of 135,000 Midianites is impossible!
• A young, inexperienced boy killing an elite, heavily armed and armored 9 foot tall Philistine with a slingshot is impossible!
• Elijah calling down fire from heaven to consume a sacrifice saturated with water is impossible!
• Elijah being carried away to heaven in a chariot of fire is impossible!
• Elisha raising a young man from the dead is impossible!
• Daniel describing and interpreting a dream he never personally had is impossible!
• Three young men tossed into a blazing furnace and emerging with not a singe mark or the smell of smoke on them is impossible!
• Being eaten by a big fish and surviving in its belly for three days is impossible!
• Being born to a virgin is impossible!
• Turning water into wine is impossible!
• Healing the lame, blind and demon possessed is impossible!
• Walking on water is impossible!
• Turning five loaves of bread and two fish into a meal that can feed 5000 is impossible!
• Raising a young girl from the dead is impossible!
• Raising Lazarus from the dead after he had been lifeless in a tomb for 4 days is impossible!
• Returning from the dead 3 days later after suffering the most brutal execution imaginable – beating, scourging and crucifixion – is impossible!
• Rising into the clouds is impossible!
• Speaking in languages you’ve never known is impossible!
• Changing a zealous and violent persecutor of Christians into the greatest Christian missionary in history is impossible!

This is just a brief list of impossible things found in the Bible. Science and naturalism claims these things are impossible. However, we serve a supernatural God that laid down the guidelines of the natural world and is well within his power to overcome any of those scientific, mathematical and naturalistic limitations. I am reminded of the words of the angel Gabriel, who stands in the very presence of the Lord God Almighty and knows him better than any of us do down here on Earth:

“For with God nothing shall be impossible.” (Luke 6:37)