Are the parables in the Bible just stories to set example or are miracles real?

Question

And if you believe in miracles please tell me why. And how do you know when it is a miracle or just the way something happened. A miracle to me is not someone surviving a car crash or surviving cancer, but something that cant happen unless there is divine intervention. Like raising from the dead or turning water into wine etc. It seems like now days anything "lucky" is defined as a miracle.

Answer 1

I think they're just stories to set examples. And I think miracle is just one of those loosly tossed around words people use to describe something thought unlikely or impossible. A real miracle, IMO, would be something like - overnight global warming goes away and there is no longer pollution.

Answer 2

If you read the Bible, you will find that all miracles are by someone challenging an authority or a stronger power, whether that authority is a Pharaoh, the priests of Baal, or the Romans. Miracles are not needed to convince people to "stay the course". They are required to change the ways of misguided leaders who think that only they have the answers or are the deciders.

If a miracle could be just a coincidence, then it's not a miracle. Why should God intervene in ways that look like chance rather than a demonstration of power for the faithful?

Anyway, if you need records of modern-day miracles, just look up the acts of any recently canonized Catholic saint. To be canonized, one must have performed miracles.

Answer 3

at the starting up parables are a discern of speech, and the literal thanks to translate or interpret a parable is as a parable. Literalness not at all insinuates that you do not ever use a emblem or a parable or a simile or a metaphor or a kind or an analogy or an allegory or the different type of symbolism. actually everyone who writes a e book makes use of symbolism to some quantity. We use it when we search for suggestion from from one yet another and it really is a common prepare of language. So there is not any reason to deny the Bible the right to apply symbolism. so a recommendations as interpretation of the Bible Jesus promised earlier he left this earth that he would deliver the Holy Spirit who will be a non secular instructor and handbook us into the reality. without the Spirit of God residing interior you you do not have the skill to comprehend the Bible wisely, yet with the Holy Spirit residing interior you, you've a handbook that could also help you interpret and comprehend the scriptures. interior the church there are those with diverse ministries jointly with instructors and God provides them the skill by study of the Bible which we are advised to do, to placed scriptures jointly and convey expertise to the Bible. What they say isn't infallible notwithstanding it absolutely is a help in giving expertise to those that are listening, extraordinarily those who have not studied the Bible very a lot themselves.

Answer 4

You asked about "parables" and "miracles". These are two entirely different topics. Basic definitions follow.

Parable: A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.
The term translates the Hebrew word “mashal”—a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy. In the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, however, “parables” were illustrative narrative examples. Jewish teachers of the 1st century A.D. made use of comparisons in narrative form to clarify scripture. As used in the Gospels, the “parable” not only denotes metaphors, analogies, and enigmatic statements, but also short illustrative narratives. In Jesus' parables, the speaker compares an observable, natural, or human phenomenon to the Kingdom (i.e. the rule) of God. Some of these challenge and mystify or even attack the hearer. Other parables are allegories. The major themes of the parables of Jesus include the contrast between the old and new age now dawning in the ministry of Jesus; the necessity of radical decisions; the gradual but sure growth of the Kingdom of God on earth; God's way of relating to people; and God's invitation for people to enter his Kingdom.

Miracle: An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God: “Miracles are spontaneous; they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves”.
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.

Answer 5

I think for the most part they set an example. I do not take the Bible literally. I do think that a miracle could happen if we are righteous enough to receive that miracle. I only use the term miracle to explain something that is unexplainable to us, but God is bound by his own physical laws just like we are, so there has to be a rational explanation for a miracle, we just don't have the capacity to understand it. I don't believe that Mary reveals herself to believers if they will just look into the sun and I don't believe Benny Hinn is anything but a thief, but I do believe a miracle could happen. There is a story somewhere in the Bible about a blind man who Jesus took and spit into some mud and put the mud on the blind man's eyes. Jesus then instructed the blind man to go to the river and wash and his blindness was cured. Maybe there was such filth 2000 years ago that a simple bath could have cured a lot of things. Maybe there was a lot of sulfer or something in the mud that would have killed bacteria that was causing the man's blindness and again, cleaning was enough to cure him. We know today that microscopic bacteria can wreak havoc on our bodies and know that we need to keep clean to prevent disease, but at that time, something as simple as a mud pack may truly have been a miracle.

Answer 6

Miracles are miracles and parables are parables. A parable is a story that illustrates a divine point. A miracle is a supernatural action of God. Just as you said, miracles include raising of the dead, water to wine, restoration of sight, healing, etc. You're asking an either-or question when in-fact they are two different things. It's not one or the other, both are true. It's like asking "Is it true that we walk upright or do we use our eyes for seeing?" It's not either-or, it's both.

Answer 7

Parables and miracles are two different things. Parables were in deed short stories with a hidden meaning and your definition of miracles is right on. As for the word miracle, yes I believe it is tossed around way too much. God may work in mysterions ways but technology and science are much more prevalent healers.

Answer 8

1. Dad had a kidney stone, too large to pass or break up. Surgery was schedule. Church members stopped by, prayed. Doctors did a final xray for surgery, entire stone flat up gone.

2. I have been in my SUV with my 80 yr old grandmother, lost control in winter in a puddle next to a semi, went sideways and were flipping through the air. We were then snatched up and placed over 1/2 mile ahead with no damage. All the while I held onto my door and grandma. If I didn't do it, and I wasn't driving, and I can't break motion laws, gravity laws and basic lays of physics....who did? For grandma was a witness to it all.

3. Brother totaled his Firebird Vette package with him and 3 guys while doing 155mph on a back country road. The accident was over a mile long from start to finish and the car is nothing now. Not even enough room in the car for 1 person. But somehow all 4 came out alive with just minor damage and few cracked bones. Even the cops and ambulance people said they have never seen anyone survive even at 100mph let alone 155mph. How did they survive? luck? impossible, too many variables, odds and paths of destruction. 1 to come out alive, sure, luck, but 4, impossible, against basic mathematics.

Answer 9

Lindsey: The parables from the Bible are written to teach Christians in training [disciples] certain principles or lessons. I believe in miracles to a certain point. In general, it is God's prerogative to decide where and when He will intervene into the affairs of human beings to show acts of mercy and love. God does perform miracles to ensure that His Devine Plan for His human creation is maintained and directed to a pre-assigned, completed objective or end.

Answer 10

Miracle and Luck are 2 separate things.

A miracle is something that happens with no explanation what so ever and its just strange that it happened. (Receiving money that you didn't expect when you're damn near DEAD broke; surviving a HORRIBLE accident. etc).

Luck is smaller in significance sometimes, yet feels very good to receive...and it does KIND OF play into a Miracle, but a miracle feels more divine, more special.