Miracles you experienced?
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Karrie, reminds me of that Police Album moniker "Ghost in the Machine"!
I'm not sure if I believe in miracles although I do hope they exist. But I do know I've witnessed a number of what I can only call supernatural happenings in my life. There is something out there but I'm not sure what it is.
I'm not sure if I believe in miracles although I do hope they exist. But I do know I've witnessed a number of what I can only call supernatural happenings in my life. There is something out there but I'm not sure what it is.
personally, if it's something that happens in your life to change you for the better, it's a miracle. It may be perfectly easy for someone else to explain away, but that just simply doesn't matter. If it speaks to you, gives you courage, strength, guidance, that's all you need to know about it.
I'll go for that, although I doubt I'd call it "miracle"; that's the stuff I like to put in my sandwiches.
You who believe in miracles must be using a pretty soft definition of the word. David Hume figured all this out over 250 years ago in a book called An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding published in 1748. He defined a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." His argument is short and simple: "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." His conclusion is equally short and simple: no testimony can establish that a miracle has happened unless the testimony is such that its being false would be even more miraculous than the miracle it's trying to establish.
By that standard, there has never been a miracle.
By that standard, there has never been a miracle.
I've always been a fan of folklore, giants and fairies, and that wonderful host of unseen things that lies just outside our ken. And I've always wanted to believe in miracles. If they don't exist they should. There are laws of nature but surely being laws something somewhere has not only the will but the power to bend them.