I always thought it had to be something impossible that defied the laws of physics, but you keep hearing people lately saying that there are "miracles of God" occuring "all around us" and then they point you to a baby's birth or a sunset.
Don't get me wrong: I like me some new babies and a good sunset now and again, but I just always assumed miracles were more...impressive than that.
So, can someone please define "miracle" for me? I'm confused.
2007-01-20 16:29:35 · 12 answers · asked by Aeryn Whitley 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Susan, not to nitpick, but wouldn't it be a *better* miracle if the hurricane didn't destroy _anything_, not just YOUR house? That seems a bit...shortsighted.
2007-01-20 16:36:54 · update #1
To expand on that thought, New Orleans is a good example of how "last house standing" doesn't mean much when everything else is gone. No man is an island unto himself, nor a waste removal system, nor an electric company, nor a water works, nor..... You get the idea.
2007-01-20 16:40:10 · update #2
Netlocmom, I feel like you should get some sort of gag prize for "crummiest miracle ever" or something. Those ones are even less "miraculous" than a sunset, IMO.
2007-01-20 16:43:25 · update #3
What is a miracle? It is when the impossible happens.
It’s when doctors have given up on a sick child and for no scientific reason, that child gets well.
It’s when you’re down to your last dollar, have piles of bills to be paid, and a check arrives in the mail from some unknown source.
It’s when a hurricane comes through a town and your house is left standing with desolation all around it.
It’s when a child is born and you can’t believe how exquisitely miniature this new life appears.
It’s when you’ve prayed for a specific purpose and that prayer is answered.
It’s when there is no earthly reason something wonderful has happened.
Miracles take place everyday. Sometimes they’re very subtle and quiet, sweeping in like a touch on the face. Other times, it’s very evident and public. It doesn’t matter who you are, miracles can happen to anyone.
Why do miracles take place? It may be that God wants your attention!
When you believe in God, you gain an awareness of Him. You see everything in a new light. He shows His great power through the trials and tribulations of life, through nature and science.
God is in the impossible business. What is a miracle? Someone once said, “Coincidence is when God wants to remain anonymous.” Well, miracles are when God reveals Himself.
All glory and honor and praise belong to Him. Without Him there would be no miracles!
God Bless You
2007-01-20 16:34:06 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A miracle doesn't need to be impressive. A miracle can be something as simple as when you are broke and open your wallet and you find a $20 when you thought you had $10. Or when your grass grows in the summer, when it rains in a drought. How about when it's been raining for days and a rainbow pops out.
Faith isn't complicated and confusing, it is simple and strong. Every time you take a breath, your heart beats, you move your body, that can be a miracle, why, because those things cannot be explained...yet you might think they are simple.
2007-01-20 16:37:12 · answer #2 · answered by netlocmom 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very good. Here's the paradox. If this is all an illusion how is it that you are able to discern it as such? What differentiates the illusion from reality. Is it that feeling in the pit or your stomach that tells you something about this whole world is wrong? When I use the word illusion I mean it in regard to the fact that this reality is a construct, a fabrication, by something outside the mind that is experiencing it. The reason some choose to believe that the universe would exist without observers is because it gives power to the concept matter is concrete and the mind is just an illusion. The fact remains, however, that the existence of the universe would be irrelevant without observers. Energy, matter, time and space are all just ideas to our consciousness and so are life and death. Because reality can only be perceived by a mind it will always be the product of one.
2016-05-24 03:48:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was just wondering the same thing this morning. Personally I think a "miracle" is something impossible in our world, like you were thinking. It would clearly take God to make it happen and it would defy nature.
That's how Jesus' miracles were.
2007-01-20 16:37:03 · answer #4 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Today 40,000 innocent children in died of starvation and Aids.
Sorry, but I don't believe God performs miracles. A God that saves one baby in a fancy hospital from cancer, and at the same time let's 40,000 poor children starve to death either needs to be educated in a course on miracles, or simply doesn't perform miracles.
People who believe those petty things to be miracles, and fail to see the condition of our planet, simply make me sick.
It's even worse than that. The claim that God is able to perform miracles and has done that several times already in saving people from cancer, causes that illiterate people start to believe that crap. They will stop their medications, refuse treatment and wait for God to perform His miracle. The claim that God heals, kills people. I strongly think that claim should be outlawed.
2007-01-20 17:00:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Since when is normal miraculous? Walking on water, was it frozen? How about water into wine? Was it over the course of a year?
Let's see some REAL miracles, I'm ready!
2007-01-20 16:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good sunset is not a miracle in my view. Now life is a miracle so that is where the baby comes in.......could be evolution also...
2007-01-20 16:34:23 · answer #7 · answered by chico2149 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A miracle would probably be something that the current time and society is not capable doing or reproducing scientifically or with any other method.
Like we still dont have a way to bring people out of comas;yet God brought me out of one.
Not to say we wont figure it out later as time passes;but right now,we dont know how to do that.
2007-01-20 16:35:39 · answer #8 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They had to lower the standards since scientific examination trashes the really impressive ones.
2007-01-20 16:34:36 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everything happening at the moment constitiutes a miracle!!
2007-01-20 16:33:06 · answer #10 · answered by wise 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋