If a miracle involves activity contrary to the order of nature, we run up against an objectionable consequence. On the Christian account, the "order of nature" is in fact a Divine order: the order of God, creating and sustaining the universe in its generality and particularity. The world is governed by Divine decree; the laws of nature are the acts of God. But if this is the case, then that which runs contrary to the laws of nature is running contrary to God. Thus, it would seem that in a miracle God would be caught in self-contradiction.
"Now, as nothing is necessarily true save only by Divine decree, it is plain that the universal laws of nature are decrees of God following from the necessity and perfection of the Divine nature. Hence, any event happening in nature which contravened nature's universal laws, would necessarily also contravene the Divine decree, nature, and understanding; or if anyone asserted that God acts in contravention to the laws of nature, he, ipso facto, would be compelled to assert that God acted against His own nature—an evident absurdity." (Spinoza)
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