Webster defines miracle as a Wonder, or Wonderful Thing. Science and Health says: "Marvel is the simple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the New Testament." Either of the above definitions is applicable to the works of Jesus and his disciples."
Webster says also, that a miracle is, "specifically, an event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things; a deviation from the laws of nature; a supernatural event." If by this is meant an effect contrary to or deviating from any law made by God, whether it is called a Law of Nature, or by some other name, Christian Science refutes it.
Again we read, in Science and Health: "Miracle is that which is divinely natural, but must be humanly learned,— a phenomenon in Science." The testimony of Jesus supports this statement. He declares that he did nothing but what the Father taught him (John viii. 28); that he could do nothing but what he saw the Father do (John v. 19); that he spoke to the world those things which he heard of his Father (John viii. 26). As human Jesus could learn, and learn in the same way that all humanity must learn,— not seeing and hearing by material senses, but by spiritual perception and spiritual discernment. To Jesus then — who was taught by the Father, or Infinite Wisdom, and proved his understanding by demonstration — there could be no miracle in his works, no mystery in his method. Neither could he, who came to do the will of his Father, do anything contrary to divine law.
