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Life itself is a miracle. You seem unable to see the miraculous in everyday life, and you presume to know “God’s definition”.

Amazing how “God’s” view of things always seems to be an exact reflection of the person positing “God’s” view. Voltaire was right — “God created man in His image and likeness, and man promptly returned the favor.”

To presume to state “God’s definition” seems to me puffed up with pride and self-esteem.

And of course, we all recognize the Source. But that Source is universal, Infinite, and without limit of boundary. EVERYTHING is of that Source. It is All in all.

It seems to me that your God is too small. And you presume that only what you believe God can use for a particular, specific purpose can be defined as a miracle. That is too narrow a definition.

Oscar Hammerstein was right:

A hundred million miracles are happening every day
And those who say they don’t agree
Are those who do not hear or see.

There's one thing that can be said for the definition of "miracle" that I accept: It fits with the one God has given us in the Scriptures.

(And no, I didn't make up God's definition. I found it.)

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Hammerstein's and Einstein's. Whose definition will YOU accept? That of men, or of the One who MADE those men?

Let me pose a question: To what is the author referring in the bolded section of following passage:

"...how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?" - Hebrews 2:3-4

If "a hundred million miracles are happening every day," then how exactly did God use them to bear witness to what was said by His Son and those who heard Him? Were some of those "hundred million miracles every day" God's testimony, and the rest not? How could those who saw these miracles tell which ones were God bearing witness and which ones were just ordinary everyday miracles?

See, the absurdity becomes obvious with a cursory comparison between Hammerstein and the Bible. If there were "a hundred million miracles happening every day," nobody would've paid the slightest bit of attention to Jesus or His apostles - and with good reason!

So you see, if a miracle signifies nothing more than that God exists, has amazing power, is running things, etc., then He COULDN'T have done with them what the Bible plainly says He did, and the Bible is therefore wrong. If a miracle is nothing special and exceptional, if "a hundred million of them happen every day," then it is unable to be a method of God bearing witness, and Hebrews, the Gospels, Acts, and many other books of the Bible are full of lies.

Hammerstein and Einstein are at odds with the Bible. And you've got a choice to make, my FRiend.