What is a miracle?

Question

definition and/or example?

Answer 1

A miracle is something that is outside natural law and only God can personally do. Miracles are the nature of God in action. An example: I know a man who was healed of advanced cancer by God instantly and has been cancer free for 15 years. The Doctor's can't explain it. I saw a short leg grow out to the length of the other one before my eyes in a matter of a couple of minutes - no human person could do that. But the greatest miracle is when someone gives their heart to the Lord and they become a brand new person in Him and you can see the night and day difference in their lives!

Answer 2

When you consider all that can go wrong in the conception, growth and development of the human embryo, then I would say that life, in and of itself, is a miracle. I lost a baby through miscarriage a few years ago. I have 2 wonderful kids. They are miracles to me. My mother was told after 4 kids she could die if she had any more children. She almost died after #5. When she was pregnant with me, #6, the doctor told her she should abort me because she would likely die. She thankfully ignored the doctor, her pregnancy with me was normal, and I am a living miracle. Yep - to me, life - being born - is a miracle.

Answer 3

A miracle is an event that takes place against all odds. A good example of this is your birth. You are a miracle indeed and so is every human on planet earth.

Answer 4

According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning 'something wonderful', is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. Although many texts and people confirm witnessing or prophecize various events which they reffer to as 'miraculous', there are no scientifically confirmed occurrences of miracles. People in different faiths have substantially different definitions of the word miracle. Even within a specific religion there is often more than one usage of the term.

Sometimes the term miracle may refer to the action of a supernatural being that is not a god. Thus, the term divine intervention refers specifically to the direct involvement of a deity.

Christian views of miracles
The description of most miracles in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and in the Christian (which use both the New Testament and the Old) are generally the same as the modern-day definition of the word: God manipulates the 'laws of nature'. Examples of God's miracles include raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, returning a shriveled hand to normal, cleansing leprosy, calming a storm, and walking on water. Many of these were performed by Jesus Christ.

A literal reading of the Biblical accounts shows that there are a number of ways this can occur: God may suspend or speed up the laws of nature to produce a supernatural occurrence; God can create matter out of nothing; God can breathe life into inanimate matter. The Holy Bible does not explain details of how these miracles happen, except that they require faith.

Muslim scholars categorized miracles into 6 distinctive term which varies from one another. These six miracles/magic works have been differentiated according to different terminologies and its unique characteristic on behalf of those who perpetrated it in many occasions. Those six occurred at the time of crisis in both Biblical and Islamic time especially in time of disapproval, desperation, agony, reconciliation, disbelief and many more.

Examples:
-Jesus ability to raise up the dead, curing the lepers and people who born blind, give life to bird made of clay all by God's permission:

-Muhammad ability to split the moon by his finger. The most astounding of all is the miracle of the Quran which is beyond supremacy since Quran is the all living miracle which surpass those before it.

-Prophet Solomon ability to converse and understand language form the animal kingdom and also control wind:

-Prophet David (Daud) ability to bend and flex iron by his own hand and make swords out of it:

Answer 5

Something explainable only by saying it was supernatural... One of my good friends had some health issues, a bunch of people prayed over him, and then when he went to the hospital on the day of his surgery, he was feeling better and asked the doctors to take some xrays before the surgery because the pain was gone, the doctors took some xrays and saw that the problem that they were going to be operating on was no longer present. I'd call this a miracle.

Answer 6

A miracle is an event that has happened that is beyond human explanation.

After 4 knee surgeries I was in constant all the time everyday pain and God healed it...the pain is gone.

Answer 7

A miracle is a manifestation of God's power.

Example: Someone rising from the dead and appearing to many people on several different occasions.

Answer 8

A Fairy Tale dressed up as reality by an idiot and accepted as fact by morons.

Answer 9

Something that God did that you know no human in the world can do like turn water into wine.

Answer 10

The direct intervention of God.
No outside assistance. No outside agency.
I have had a few.