Can the biblical accounts of miracles be corroborated by testimony other than that of Scripture?
This is an excellent question that suggests at least two objections to the idea of miracles. The two are: “The authors made up the accounts because they were biased toward Christianity”, and, “If the miracles happened, why aren’t they recorded outside of the Bible?” The fact is that some miracles of the Bible are recorded outside of Scripture, and by people who were not favorable to Christianity. Here are some excellent examples collected by Josh McDowell and often cited in his many works: Thallus, a writer around AD 52, wrote to speculate on natural reasons that would explain away the three hours of darkness that occurred during Christ’s crucifixion. Although the event corresponded with the monthly period of a full moon (which is sufficient to prove that the darkness could not have been a lunar eclipse), the most important point is that Thallus deals with Christ’s crucifixion and the accompanying darkness as factual events. These were events for which he desired alternative explanatio
