RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
I think he posits a false dilemma here. Open-minded Christians are never to be convinced by anything, and are not to interpret any events, but by the word of God. A preponderance of any sort of claims is not binding on us.
What he is saying is the preponderance of claims refutes the Humean principle that miracles need an insane burden of proof (which Hume thinks is impossible). Many of the claims could be dismissed, but even if a small percentage is true, then Hume is wrong. That is his point.
In fact a book like this that tries to force and manipulate words to bind a Christian’s conscience is, in my opinion, “evidence” to reject out of hand.
As to "interpreting everything by the word of God," I believe in miracles today and I interpret everything by my Greek and Hebrew text, so I am not sure what that actually adds to the discussion.
Can you show where Keener is manipulating words? I find it hard to imagine that Baker Academic would allow a Cambridge scholar to manipulate their editors so easily.