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Northwest Community Evangelical Free Church Dave Smith  THIS Jesus - Jesus, King Over Nature                                                          Study #3 (John 6:1-21) Introduction: Chronological snobbery…                You may have heard your friends dismiss the stories of miracles recorded in the Bible. If you have, they may have done so on the basis of the supposed gullibility of ancient peoples.                  Your friends may say, “People who lived a long time ago were so gullible they’d believe anything.”                  Thanks to C. S. Lewis, we have a term to describe this reason for disbelief. Lewis called it “chronological snobbery.”                  The term actually refers to the temptation to believe that all new ideas are better than all old ideas. But the term can easily be applied to a consideration of the miracles we find recorded in the Bible.                  Of the miracles, someone might say, “Well, ancient peoples thought that thunderstorms were the result of battles between the