If you don't believe in God, do you believe in miracles? If so, how can you believe in one and not the other? Doesn't it take a higher power to perform a miracle?
I happen to believe in both but am trying to understand a different point of view.
2007-08-22 02:48:00 · 24 answers · asked by Ollie's Mommy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is actually the very reason that I consider myself Agnostic and not Atheist.
I do tend to side with Atheists in that there is usually a logical explanation for everything, but there have been many documented medical "miracles" that doctors and scientists have not been able to explain in any kind of way.
So, I'm open to the fact that God could be out there somewhere.
2007-08-22 02:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't "believe" in the God of any religion, but I Know there are Energies both above and below the energy frequencies we are capable of perceiving with our five senses.
As for miracles, how do you define them? If you witness an act that can only be attributed to a higher power, it may be considered a miracle by you, but is it a miracle to the power that performed it? My guess is it would be commonplace to the power that performed it.
Miracles seem to be in the eye of the beholder, much like beauty.
2007-08-22 03:26:12 · answer #2 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems strange that someone would believe in miracles and not god. Or perhaps I should say it this way: I don't believe in god, nor do I believe in miracles, and find it hard to rationalize being an atheist and believing in miracles.
I'd be surprised if many people said that they didn't believe in a higher power but believed in miracles.
2007-08-22 02:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both are relative to each other.
What GOD actually means, it's GOOD (only one extra 0).
And GOOD things like miracles will happen only when you think and act like god would, because GOD is GOOD...
You should align your self to this source. Once you're established this harmony with your creator, dorment forces come alive, you unleash your full potential, so called miracles take place and wonderments. It's something i learnt from dr. Wayne Dyer, it doesn't matter what religion you are...
So what does it take to perform a miracle?! Love, I guess...At the end all that matters is love!
2007-08-22 03:04:28 · answer #4 · answered by Goran 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in god . I also believe in miracles. God is very subtle with his miracles. If you think about the last time you prayed for somthing and got what you wanted. Look at how god gave you what you needed.
2007-08-22 03:08:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't believe in miracles. It'd be quite strange, as you point out, to believe in miracles without believing in a power/entity/culture of such power that it would defy physics (ie: create a miracle).
2007-08-22 02:55:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't say I have EVER met anyone who is an Atheist who also believes in miracles. The two things are mutually exclusive.
2007-08-22 04:45:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well a miracle by definition is something done by a higher power.
If you assume its not done by a higher power, then its merely something powerful that is mysterious.
2007-08-22 03:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't believe in miracles, i do believe in things happening against the odds, but not miracles.
2007-08-22 02:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, no, and not that it really matters, but exactly which god are you talking about? Wakan Tanka? Odin? Zeus? Osiris? Isis? Jehova? Ra? How do you choose which god performed the miracle? Or do you just believe that they all had a hand in it?
2007-08-22 02:55:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋