Have you ever witnessed a miracle?

Question

Ok, let me rephrase:

Has anything extremely unlikely ever happened to you, and has had a very positive effect on your life?

Example: An unlikely recovery from a disease

Let's try this again.

There is no need for you to flaunt your 'superiority' by talking down to me.

I am not looking for people to pull apart my question.

I believe it is obvious what sort of answers I am looking for.

Answer 1

Wow – what a question. I believe that ultimately, what you are asking is relative to one's personal interpretation of the word or concept of a miracle. Is the sunrise a miracle, or the matter of the universe following the specific rules defined by Johannes Keppler? After all, the sun does not even really 'rise.' That's a remnant expression from the days when people thought the earth to be stationary. Is birth a miracle? Anyway, in my travels I have encountered several primitive peoples, and their concepts of miracles can include things like a Zippo lighter and a digital camera screen. A small tape recorder also gets a lot of pie-eyes and oohs and ahhs. I guess I would have to say that to me, a miracle would indicate, clearly and unavoidably, the intervention of a divine power. And while I have seen many, many amazing things in my years on the planet – many of which were quite attention-getting – I have yet to see anything that withstands the tests of time and learning as a miracle. Needless to say, but for your analysis purposes, I am not a religious fellow.

Answer 2

I've heard other examples of what Naddo explains above, but I'm not sure this is a miracle as much as it is behavior that results from an altered state of waking consciousness. There are people whose behavior is so habitual that they can literally fall asleep at the wheel and not have an accident, especially if they've travelled the same route before. (Ask someone like a truck driver.) Humans are creatures of habit unless you live in such a way to consciously break habitual behavioral patterns (most people do not). However, if it brings spirit and inspiration to Naddo to believe what he experienced is a miracle, then so be it.

A miracle is defined as something not explainable according to scientific logic, reason, or observation. I have been a person who is a part of a miracle, and you have been too.

We have eugenics, human biology, chemistry, and plenty of other sciences that explain life forms on earth as being no more than the sum of their parts. Scientists study DNA as if all you need is the right mixture of chemicals and you get a live cell. When a person dies, that person still has all the same parts, and in all the right places, but the person still dies despite trying to "shock" the person or put the person on what we call "life support" equipment. We study life forms as if they are dead because we cannot know what it is making humans and other life forms come to life through our institution of science. Science and the system of understanding that it is cannot study the thing that makes LIFE on earth for humans no less than a miracle, but don't expect today's kind of scientist to agree.

A living person is no less a miracle than anything that has been labeled a "miracle."

I think what you're looking for is not so much an example of a miracle as you are one specific event that seems to be unexplainable. If you look around a little closer than most people do you will see there are plenty of miracles. You want what would be considered to be "empirical evidence" that miracles are real, but why downplay the miracle that gives consciousness to all of us?

*And I'm not asserting "superiority" over anybody here or "taking apart" your question, even if I'm questioning your use of the term "miracle." It's not obvious what you are asking unless you assume everyone's meaning of the term "miracle" is the same (which isn't the case).

Answer 3

A miracle is just something that happens in a way that is so complex that it isn't clear as to how it happened.

Like if you were to take a computer back to the stone ages, it'd blow peoples minds and they would call it a "miracle stone" or something equally 'primitive'.

In medical practices, doctors who refer to things as 'miracles' do so because they cannot understand why it should have happened because there is either:

a) insufficient evidence gathered from the original test to resolve what kind of illness the person is actually suffering from
b) insufficient research and discovery in a particular field to explain why something happened

For instance, my mother once told me about a preacher who had miraculously healed a boy who was unable to walk and that he has been getting better and better each day. But upon researching his illness myself I discovered that his disability was a kind that could be reversed graudally over time with physical therapy.

To my mother and the preacher it seemed like a miracle because neither of them had much of an understanding about how the human body works, much less the reason why the boy had trouble walking. But really it was his physiotherpist who cured him, and not the preacher.

If you think you've been miraculously cured of a disease it could just be that you were misdiagnosed or are just not producing evident symptoms at this time.

Personally I don't believe in miracles because given enough information about something the 'miracle process' should be clear. So to answer your first question: No I have never witnessed a miracle, just things I don't yet know enough about to understand.

And as for your second question: Something extremely unlikely happening isn't a miracle. That's just chance. How chance affects my life is up to me and what I choose to do with, or how I react to, the outcome.

So yes, I have had unexpected things happen that I have reacted positively to, but I wouldn't regard that as being a miracle because I'm self-aware and able to understand why I like some things better than others.

Answer 4

yes! ok I was driving on the highway at like 3 AM and I used to drive this all the time btw. It's about a 40 mile drive from my house to this college and there is this one section of road that has all these bends and whatnot plus the exits are almost 9 miles apart. well ANYWAY I'm so tired and dozing off...well I fall asleep for several miles. I don't remember a thing. the last thing i remember was "EXIT A" and the next thing I saw was the bridge at "EXIT B". well when I woke up and as SOON as I woke up the very first thing that popped in my head was "An ANGEL saved your life". It wasn;t I JUST FELL ASLEEP AND LIVED. no it was an angel saved your life then i realized that I fell asleep. after that I was crying and thanking God. Something like that is just unbelievable until it happens to you. so a miracle has happened to me.

Answer 5

Yes, My son was diagnosed w/brain cancer 8 yrs ago. They gave him a 50/50 chance of living 6 months. He did clinical trials in San Antonio and is still alive. he has been in a wheel chair for the last 7 yrs due to bone deteriation from all the radiation and steriods he had to take. I have worked w/ him daily for 6 yrs to help build bone etc, He had a hip replacement in March and is walking for the first time in 7 yrs. After to clinical trials, he had cancer cells over 90 percent of his skull, lasted 2 yrs. Doc watched closely thinking he would not live, the cancer cells are gone. He is a healthy 30 yr old, cognitavely he is 8 yrs old, but walking, talking and happy as a lark. Has very little short term memory and has a care taker, but he is a Miracle.

Answer 6

Some would say that I am a miracle...
My mother was told by doctors that it would be very difficult for her to have children for medical reasons. Mom and Dad tried for years and years with no success to have children. And then my Dad died.
When he died, my mother prayed to God for my Dad to somehow come back and get her pregnant so that she could have something to remember him by.
Worker's Compensation made my Mother take a pregnancy test. It came up negative, not once but twice. Time went on, Mom wasn't having her "monthly visits" and went to another doctor. By that time she was about 4 1/2 months pregnant.
My father died on leap day, Febuary 29, 1972.
I was born exactly 8 months later on October 29, 1972.
It's a miracle that I'm here at all.

Answer 7

I have never witnessed a miracle like those described in the bible. But I see miracles everyday when I look at my children, and wonder with amazement how we bring life on to this earth. The birth of children is the most amazing miracle I have ever witnessed.

Answer 8

no. a miracle is by definition the least likely occurence. there are always more parsimonious explanations than calling something a "miracle." Exhaust every naturalistic explanation before even thinking about positing the existence of something supernatural

Answer 9

Have you noticed that with the advent of digital cameras and video cameras that the number of miracles has dramatically decreased? Only the anecdotal evidence remains, as shown above.

This also includes alien UFO's.

Answer 10

I experience a miracle in every breath, but i especially count it as such, with my "first" breath every morning.

Rev. Steven