How do believers determine coincidence from miracle?

Question

I have seen multiple questions today regarding the belief in miracles. Where does a believer draw the line between coincidence and miracle? Is it so hard to imagine that line not existing and everything being a coincidence to non-believers?

Answer 1

They don't, they make miracles out of coincidence

Answer 2

For a non-believer it is easy to dismiss a miracle as a coincedence or some other natural phenomenon. If a person doesn't believe in God then they will never believe in the things of God. If they don't believe in God then why would they ever attribute anything to Him? But how can you dismiss a situation that occurs where someone should have clearly died or been mamed and they escape both as a coincedence? Yes I can see if I was in the right place at the right time and something good happens as a coincedence, that is from my point-of-view, but there is also that possibility that God put it in me to be there at that exact moment for that specific purpose.

A child who should have died during birth, comes through safe and healthy...miracle or coincedence? If the latter then explain how it was just coincedence. As ahuman we can say well the child had a 50/50 chance and was just lucky the child fell on the side of life, but from God's point-of-view there was never a 50/50 chance but a 100% chance the baby would live.

Do you have children? Siblings? Friends? Family? How much do you care about them? Would you give your life for them? If you said yes, does that mean you would give your life for someone who came into your life by coincedence? When you look into their eyes and think about the love you have for them do you see people who exist by coincedence and the role they play in your life only happens by chance?

Maybe the true difference is perception.

I thought of one more thing...humans have no special powers, and yet we are ale to come together and create magic....that's not coincedence, that's a miracle. Need examples look no further than the aftermath of 9/11 or hurricane Katrina or any other disaster that has pulled humans together. Extraordinary situatins creating extraordinary people....

Answer 3

I'm a believer.....

Webster defines coincidence as "the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection"

miracle as "an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs"

To me, the key word is "extraordinary".....I wouldn't consider a phone call from a friend the very moment I'm thinking about her a miracle. However, if I've been praying for a friends healing and she is healed, I'd call that a miracle.

If a person is a non-believer, then to them, there is no such thing as a miracle because in order for a miracle to exist, there must be divine intervention.

Answer 4

Coincidence: Someone behind you in line has exact change when he sticks his hand in his wallet.

Miracle: You are feeling under the weather, so you stay home from work/school for a day. The news report comes up, saying that a major car crash has happened on a road that you go down every day. It occured when you should have been on that road.

It's all a matter of degree. Small happening(non life changing)=coincidence, large happening(life changing)=miracle.

I agree with many up here, that everything is a miracle. It's just that we humans choose to classify miracles, and leave "miracle" as the granddaddy of all miracles, and call small happens-to-be-that-ways coincidences.

Answer 5

fairly? Do you've truthfully info that this exceeded off? I.e. distinct physician's medical archives of the female's difficulty previous to that experience, an iron clad prognosis that the ailment will under no circumstances certainly restoration itself, no remedy being given, and then affirmation after the healing that it develop into certainly that difficulty and that it had disappeared. Then in case you may educate countless amputees which have regrown their limbs... regrettably, there's no info of miracles that God preformed contained in the Bible. The solar preventing or shifting backward might want to were said by employing each and every civilization in existence on the on the spot. Edit: the point is, with a view to assert that it develop right into a supernatural experience, there might want to be no organic motives for it. many stuff that were considered brilliant were shown to be both thoroughly organic or scams, hence we prefer to be really scrupulous about with the intention that each and every of the info are effortless and documented.

Answer 6

You are correct. Coincidence is a definition created to overcome submission to faith and explain away miracles as such. There is little room for coincidence in any faith of Spirit.

Answer 7

A miracle points to the existence of God. It wouldn't have happened apart from His intervention. The impossible happens. Usually there is dire need involved. Usually petitioning Him is involved.

Answer 8

um, when my brother was prayed for and a locked joint in his foot was released then, that is a miracle, or one that I believe also is a miracle is today my parents recieved a 700 dollar check for no known reason and it was needed, some would say that, that is a coincidence.

Answer 9

There is no such thing as coincedences. Everything that happens in life happens for a reason. If someone died, then you have to realize that God took him/her for a reason. Or if you and someone both meet at the train station and u end up getting married do u say " oh it was a coincedenc ethat i found her, no u say oh there was a reason why i found her at the station." Thats how it is for us believers. God liets everyhting happen for a reaosn. Hurricanes 9/11 ( i get amdt when ppl sya that we are as bad as the terroists, just cuz we believe that God let it happen.) But eyah thats all i have to say.

Answer 10

Wow. So all apparent coincidences are in fact miracles. Orwell would be so proud.