One thing that we find in today's society, and likely every society, is an attitude of arrogance towards the past. It's easy to think that people from earlier times were simpler, and that our benefit of additional scientific knowledge makes us superior. It's easy to forget that in 100 years, people will look back at us and marvel what we didn't know.
Some have accused people from Jesus' time of being less intelligent, more gullible, more willing to believe in the extraordinary. But they were just as skeptical then -- people simply didn't rise from the dead. The elders and chief priests didn't believe it when the soldiers told them what happened. They made up a story to try and keep the peace. Despite being told the miraculous had occurred, the chief priests, the ones who should be most eagerly awaiting the Messiah, chose to believe that dead people stayed dead, because that's the way the world worked.
I hope we believe that God can do the miraculous. I believe that God is still at work, raising hearts to new life, and still doing miracles, even if I can't always see them or grasp them. I believe and I trust, and I'll move forward with that.
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