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To: LearsFool

There is a vast difference between the worldview that everything is a miracle and that nothing is.

Contemplate this: How is it that I am able to sit at a keyboard, type these words, click a mouse, and the words I am typing appear on your screen and those of many other people? I know there is a technical explanation, but what explains any of that?

If you view this as just routine, the working out of the mundane factors of the world, then you miss the fullest appreciation (literal meaning: to add value) of this amazing set of occurrences. If you view it as miraculous, then you can approach life with appropriate awe.

What do you think makes for a happier life? To see everything as a miracle or nothing as a miracle? To see miracles as an everyday part of life or to close the door to the miraculous in our lives?


39 posted on 06/09/2015 9:07:11 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Apparently we need to back up and define “miracle”, because you’re using it in a different sense than it’s used in the Bible and the original article above.

For instance, you ask how one is able to post on this internet forum. Then you say you realize there’s a technical explanation, but don’t know of the underlying explanation. You use the phrase “this amazing set of occurrences” to describe what a miracle is.

If we accepted that definition, yes, there would be miracles all around us. Anything we don’t understand would be a miracle - even when we realize it’s understandable. (A logical conclusion, then, would be: The less we understand, the more miracles we’ll see. Like not wanting to know how the magician does the trick which amazes us.)

Like you, I am amazed at many occurrences around me. The deadness of winter gives way to the renewal of life every spring. The grass grows green, the trees sprout leaves and blossom, the birds sing, the rabbits frolic. It’s all done at God’s command, and it is amazing. Unlike the dumb hog that never looks up to acknowledge the oak tree that drops the acorns it eats, the wise man acknowledges the Source of these amazing things.

But “amazing” is not God’s definition of “miracle”, but man’s...man who does not wish to accept God’s purpose for the miracles He has wrought. Accepting God’s purpose for those miracles puts us under obligation to heed what He through His spokesmen commands of us.

Submitting to God is often difficult for those who are puffed up with pride and self-esteem. Much easier to just be amazed at the tasty and “miraculous” acorns, and consider oneself “religious” and “spiritual” for doing so.


44 posted on 06/10/2015 7:22:09 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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