2006-12-27 22:14:24 · 8 answers · asked by mattie_peters 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Something that defies understanding of how the natural order is, is a miracle in my thinking.
A person with a spinal cord injury who is told he will never walk again, but who learns to walk again, that should qualify as a miracle.
A terminally ill person whose condition reverses for no explainable reason should be considered a miracle.
The IRS letting me off the hook after my audit would certainly be classified as a miracle, but since I've not had a conversation with any burning bushes lately, I won't be holding my breath on that one.
2006-12-27 22:26:20 · answer #1 · answered by Jadalina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't a miracle classed as something that is impossible to happen, but which happens anyway? Stuff in the bible about turning a few loaves into hundreds and all that ...
But surely miracles are bounded by our knowledge. A small torch carried in the hand would surely, two hundred years ago, be considered as a miracle "man carries light in his palms". So ti wasn't a miracle at all but, given the limits of knowledge at the time, it would have been classed as some.
Good question, I'll be interested to see all the answers.
2006-12-27 22:26:00 · answer #2 · answered by gorgeousfluffpot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This may sound pompous, I hope not. Anyway, it is my firm belief that absolutely everything you see is a miracle. The very idea of being able to communicate ideas as we are doing now is a miraculous thing. I'm not talking about technology or language per se, I'm talking about the very existence of both. The very existence of us as beings in a world filled with marvels. I think that the word miracle is understood incorrectly insofar as we are surrounded by miracles, so inundated that we don't even see them as such. Not perhaps the answer you were seeking, but my answer none the less. Happy New Year!!
2006-12-28 00:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by Sartoris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think that your car freezing up then boiling up, then praying and it defrosting back to working normally in about 5 minutes with no intervention is a miracle?
2006-12-27 23:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by : 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Being able to drive around the UK, for more than three years, without getting a £60 speed camera fine.
2) Going to court and getting the case dropped.
2006-12-27 22:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breaking my back twice and still being able to walk, that's a bloody miracle.
2006-12-27 22:56:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
examples of miracles are not accidents but classed all the same
2006-12-27 22:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by P T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think it has something to do with Jesus like the fish and bread story
2006-12-27 22:26:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋