What exactly (or vaguely) is "divine intervention"? Is it a reality?

Question

Could there be another explanation? Maybe one more scientific? Or what about just plain luck?
Could there really be some undefinable intelligence intervening on our behalf?
Tell me.

Bella Wolffe: thank you.

Answer 1

When I was six months pregnant in my second pregnancy (first was a miscarriage) they informed me that there was something wrong with the baby. The place I lived did not have a pediatric neurosurgeon, so I had to go to a bigger city. In that city they made their tests, had their sonograms and strongly suggested that I abort. I was told that this child would not live to be born, and if it did it would not live past one year. It would be a vegitable. They could not do the abortion in that city, I had to travel to an even larger city. It was long enough into the pregnancy I would have to name it, and bury it.

By the time we got to the bigger city I had decided, through many tears and heartache, that I could not go through with the abortion. When we arrived at the doctors, a specialist in high risk pregnancies, they were ready for me, the needles were filled and everything. I told them I could not.

The doctor dropped everything and said, ok, let's take a look and see what is what...they took more tests, even larger needles, better sonograms and everything. After all that he told me that there was no hydrocephalis, and at this stage it was a good sign. He told me it was a male, and that was also good, because it was harder on females. He told me also that the hole in the spine was very low, this was good as the probability for brain damage and other problems was lower the lower on the spine. He told me that it was not open, which was good, because it would be better for the birth.

We had weekly sonograms, to watch closely how things were progressing. Making sure to wait long enough but not too long. The date was decided and the appointment for the C-section scheduled. But, in true form, my son decided ok, on the date, but let's make that a bit earlier. Rushed to the emergency room, I won't go into the details. I will tell you the specialist did make his last joke..."Good thing I had only one margarita..."

He was born, taken immediately to a premee ward, even though he was 8 3/4 pounds and a good 19 inches long. It was two days before I could see him, too much morphene and demoral for mom. You gotta love those OBE's. He was absolutely beautiful.

This last year, his 18th, he scored in the top 1% of the nation on his PSAT's. He still does not use a wheel chair, he has a brace. He wants to save the world, and attend Alaska Pacific. He wants to be a zoologist.

You decide....

Answer 2

I love divine intervention! It works for me. How many examples would you like? Here's one: ten years ago I had a car accident where the other car drove straight in my door. I watched it as it happened. I was driving. I got out with a headache. No injuries. My side of the car was written off but I had it repaired. On Oprah years later a woman had the same kind of accident and was almost killed and unfortunately will never walk or talk again. My life is not so dramatic these days, but All my writing and art contains the beauty of divine assistance. I can only say what I always do: I do not do it. It is given to me to share. So, what is divine intervention? And why do some get it and others don't? Ah, we'll leave that up to the divine. I am divine, you are divine. I guess it depends on whether you realise it as being so, or not. I am open to all loving esoteric experiences while I'm in my final life-time. I only know that my own experience is all that counts, for me. It's all good.

Answer 3

Divine intervention cant be defined scientifically as where the boundaries of material world ( for which science talks) ends, the divinity starts (apparentaly...as even material is divine).

The human mind is a distorted and vague shadow of the divinity and hence works on the information it collects from sense and its perview is always restricted by the individual ego and its experiences.

Divine intervention can tear apart the boundaries of ego, mind and material ,and shine our life beyond our expectations.

It is divine intervention that we are doing our cosmic discussion against all odds, in YA...

All cosmics are under the spell of divine intervention now ....

Answer 4

"Divine intervention" is when God, the creator/Father chooses to miraculously intervene in the life of a human being. It is a reality. God does sometimes influence or change something and there is no other explanation for what happened.
Google it. You'd be surprised at the vast amount of cases attributed to 'divine intervention.'

Answer 5

Have you ever seen a bad wreck where you just know there is no way anyone survived only to be told they did live
That's Divine Intervention

True story:
1992 I became deathly ill and the Doctors could not explain
they just followed procedure for what they felt was surely the end (Did you know there is a room in hospitals for family members who loved ones are at a point of eminent death)My family knows! Anyhow long story short tada I'm here for bit longer, and by all accounts including medical science I should not be...........

Answer 6

What exactly is not??? It all happens for a reason, a purpose... who can see it :-) We all know our actions cause an effect but most do not understand truly how our actions effect others and so Who does.

Find peace within, learn to understand the effects of ones actions in the world and see God at work. Was it really ever our choice?... Truly we only get given choice when we learn to understand what each choice means and what effect it will have. When we truly see with only wisdom and love we are given the power to use the word. Drag vampires into the light, yes, the cost will be what they have chosen.

Answer 7

Well, conscience might be a form of divine intervention.

Or are you talking about averting natural disasters and things like that? There was once a prophet who stood on a mountainside, and a hurricane came, then an earthquake, then fire. But the prophet did not find the Divine anywhere in the forces of nature. He found it in a still, small - dare I say inner? - voice.

Peace to you.

Answer 8

"Divine intervention" is a concept from fallacy, "argument from incredulity". From a naturalistic perspective, this is obvious. From a theistic perspective, such intervention would negate the initial performance of creation, an admittance of incompetent design. How can either perspective entertain such an idea?

Answer 9

It can be defined , even refined, but unless you experience it and recognize the experience for its divinity, there will always be doubters. I have no doubt. My 'father' intervenes on my behalf or I would have drowned in the Kennebec River between the ages of five and ten.

Answer 10

Divine intervention is God chaning conditions in reality. You wouldn't really be able to tell since god's will is reality. In other words I believe in divine intervention but such questions are going to end up just like "does god exist". It will end up with one of those "does not, does too" arguments.