Atheists, how do you explain miracles? I mean there have been people lying in hospital beds dying and the second someone lays hands on them and starts praying they are healed. How do you explain that? I mean I'm sure things like that have happened millions of times throughout history--so how do you explain those kinds of things?
2006-09-14 09:14:20 · 24 answers · asked by SummerSweetheart 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As you can see from the answers above, they don't explain it---they avoid it because they know they can't explain it. I've witnessed miracles and know they are from God.
2006-09-14 09:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by BeeFree 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
There is something very medicinal about hope and faith... The mind can be instrumental in healing the body. As far as the hands and prayers being a factor? I doubt it! It's more that the patients own faith that fed the healing.
Any person (minister or otherwise) is facilitating a hoax when they claim a miracle. The only Miracle comes from within.
Yes I am an athiest and take a very cynical view of so called healers. They, in recent months, have also been the subject of investigations of fraud. I believe these faith healers are nothing more than con men/women. And thier own economic gain is the real goal. Many of the so-called healed persons...later died because they believed so strongly that they were healed that they stopped all treatment.
Healers are criminals that feed on the faith and hope of people.... a true miracle is wen they put them al in jail!
2006-09-14 16:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by john s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't happen. How many times have you actually seen this? I'm going to guess zero. You think it happens, because you hear about faith healing (which has been proven to be a scam over and over) so you assume this *must* happen all the time. It never has, not even once.
Fierce: Gee, I didn't know that proof was that easy. Here, I have a box here, and it contains irrefutable evidence that god doesn't exist. Really, I have it. Now are you going to explain this, or just "avoid" it. Cause I really have the box. Really.
2006-09-14 16:20:13 · answer #3 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is simple F R A U D!!! These people like Benny Hinn who do this are fakes, They plant people in the audience who are not really sick. They tell others they can walk, when they never had a problem walking to begin with. People are incredibly gullible and easily fooled.
Remember the famous quote attributed to PT Barnum:
"There's a sucker born every minute"
it is correct although Barnum never said it. People thought he did though. People will believe anything.
2006-09-14 16:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you have personal experience with this sort of miracle? Otherwise it's hearsay evidence. It doesn't stand up in a court of law, why would it stand up in the court of public opinion.
A miracle is when something happens that we don't understand so we attribute it to some magical power. This happens with coincidence, magic tricks, hallucinations, etc. etc. etc.
There is no proof of miracles, and most of them are quite easily explained away.
2006-09-14 16:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it's true. My car broke down the other day, complete break down, the radiator blew, breaks failed so I safely pulled over got out placed my hands on the hood after checking it out and prayed and in seconds my car was brand new...
Of course I do not have document proof of this and no one believes me that it has happened.
So like you we are in the same boat we know this has happened but we both do not have proof that it has happened
2006-09-14 16:25:19 · answer #6 · answered by gwad_is_a_myth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prove it.
There are 10,000 times more examples of people who pray and the person still dies. Prove that a miracle made someone come back from the brink of death and rule out all medical possibilities.
2006-09-14 16:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Is there a specific example you had in mind? For all I know, those stories are simply "a friend of a friend..." sort of stories. It happened to this guy who knew a guy who knew a girl who's cousin met a guy that it happened to...
I don't know anyone it happened to, and I've never read about from a credible news source. Until then, I chalk it up to urban legends.
2006-09-14 16:19:02 · answer #8 · answered by drink_more_powerade 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't waste my time trying to convert you, don't waste yours trying to convert me, it's pointless and idiotic to try to explain something as abstract as the existance of a god that is purelly based on faith, So, go to church, pray, do whatever you think is necessary to make you feel better on times of tribulations, but keep it to yourself, I don't need to hear about it 'cause i dont really care
2006-09-14 16:25:26 · answer #9 · answered by buddy1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If praying heals them why are they lying in "HOSPITAL" beds? They shud be lying in their own homes. Lol hehe
2006-09-14 16:20:23 · answer #10 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Life and death are created by God Almighty. So too the earth, sea, sun, moon, flowers, fruit, vegs, trees, etc. How on earth can you say the God doesn't exist. You too were created from a sperm, and now you you say that God doesn't exist!
2006-09-14 16:25:19 · answer #11 · answered by tah_london 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋