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How can you possibly accept that bizarre miracles took place when you know they're impossible? (Or at least highly improbable)!
What are some of the miracles that the Bible claims to have happened? Can we start with Creation itself? The Bible teaches that everything was created from nothing by a pre-existing God in six days. The next recorded miracle would be that God did not destroy Adam and Eve after they had rebelled against Him, instead promising that a descendant of Eve would set things straight and be wounded in the process. Another miracle is the divine inspiration and preservation of the Bible. But the question above probably refers only to miracles in the working of nature, right? Examples there: the world-wide Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the conception and birth of Isaac, the amazing growth of Jacob's flocks, Joseph's interpretation of Pharoah's dreams, the plagues in Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the list goes on and on. It resumes in the New Testament mainly with healings along with the raising of the dead, and things like the feeding of the 5,000 and of the 4,000 using only a handful of food each time. Those are the miracles the question refers to, right?
The Bible portrays all these miracles in a certain light. They are accomplished by God's power for His special reasons. The chief reason is to bring faith to those who see and hear about the miracles. In other words, they were done to corroborate God's message. That principle applies to most of the miracles in the Bible, but others were done simply to carry out the will of God (e.g. Creation, the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah, the Flood). Is the problem you have with these miracles a problem with the miracles themselves, or with the message that many corroborate?
What is a miracle? What distinguishes the parting of the Red Sea from the tides of the Atlantic Ocean, or the activity of Old Faithful in Yellowstone? What's the difference between the raising of Lazarus and Jairus' daughter and the widow's son and Eutychus from the dead and the medical "miracles" that take place at leading hospitals? The answer, of course, is how often they occur. The events you consider "miraculous" are so rare that that they are exceptionally noteworthy. In many cases, they are rare because the "natural order" of things prevents them from happening under normal circumstances. Only special divine intervention makes them possible. For example, the waters of the Red Sea could not be parted by any natural means we know of. Even if it were, the waters on the sides would quickly fill in the void. It required unusual divine intervention to make this possible. Are you certain that your problem is accepting the otherwise impossible? Or is it that you reject a God who personally intervenes in the course of life on earth?
What is the course of life on earth? It is filled with repeating experiences that we take for granted, yet do not understand. Objecting to miracles on the grounds that we cannot understand how they took place is a weak excuse. Do humans understand everything we can observe? No! We don't understand what makes a living cell work. (Probabilities and physics? That's like saying, "It works because it works.") We don't understand how consciousness works. We don't even fully understand the body's ability to heal! We don't know what all the things are that we see in the sky at night, or why an electric current produces a magnetism that operates only on certain materials. There are things we use all the time, and we assume that we know all about them, but in fact we have only observed them. Now, is it fair to call someone a liar simply because he has observed something you cannot understand, have never predicted, and have certainly never seen? That's exactly what you do in contradicting the Bible's claim that real miracles have happened. Let's have a little humility here -- especially when we're talking about our Creator! By definition, we creatures can not expect to understand the essence or the workings of our Creator.
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