This divine agenda is played out in both realms, in deliberate tandem. The story of the Bible is about God’s will for, and rule of, the realms he has created, visible and invisible, through the imagers he has created, human and nonhuman. He describes the “real focus” and “theological center” of the Bible in this way: In The Unseen Realm, Heiser sets out to provide a thick description of biblical supernaturalism. Desiring to minimize this tension, they offer a thin account of biblical supernaturalism, which retains belief in God and miracles but downplays other aspects of what Michael S. No God transcends this nexus nor intervenes within it.Ĭontemporary Bible-believing Christians thus feel the tension between their supernaturalist theological convictions and their naturalist cultural context.
In this view worldview, reality is a closed nexus of material cause and effect. Modernity assumes and articulates a worldview of naturalism. All Bible-believing Christians are thus supernaturalists. From the “In the beginning” of Genesis to the “Amen” of Revelation, mention of God and divine action is heard on each page. The Bible both assumes and articulates a supernatural worldview. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2015).
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