Christians: Do you ever think critically about apparent "miracles"?
Let's take as an example stories where there's a plane crash, and over a hundred people die, but one young child survives. This really has happened; for example the recent case of the plane crash in Libya where a 9-year-old Dutch boy survived. It's a miracle, God saved that child! Right?
Think about that for a second. Out of over one hundred people, God chooses to only save one kid? Not his parents or his brother, who died in the crash. Not any of the other children on the plane. Not any of the handful of innocent, righteous, Christians who, statistically speaking, were probably present on that plane. Only one random kid. And he wasn't even unharmed, he was seriously injured.
Was God just showing off? If so, why didn't he save everyone on the plane? It's not like this would be hard; there are plenty of cases where all passengers and crew survive a plane crash. And if God is okay with calling attention to himself by saving a kid, why not call attention to himself in some more obviously supernatural way, like making the plane stop falling and levitate just above the ground rather than hitting it, allowing everyone to get off of it safely?
Or maybe we can just accept that probability allows for amazing (but not supernatural) things to happen without it being an act of God?
Skaggmo2012-05-03T00:19:10Z
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I admit, I think about that. But then I consider the law of averages. There's no statistical way possible that I should be the one who has experienced so many miracles. I've seen at least ten people I know personally miraculously healed, I get prayers answered all the time, I open the Bible up randomly to any page when I have a question and without fail a sensible answer is always there. I could goo on and on. there's simply no way it could all be a series of lucky coincidences. It's mathematically impossible.
About the kid in your story who survived... Wait and see how his life turns out before you come to any conclusions. I believe God saved him for a reason, but only time will tell.
When I first read the Bible, I thought parts of it sounded like a fairy-tale. It sounded like a bunch of stories written by uneducated men trying to explain their beginnings. After years of studying, I see things in the Bible that astound me. They books relate to each other in such a complex, intricate way that I don't believe a mortal mind could have conceived them. You don't see these things by just reading over the Bible a few times. So much of the Old Testament contains symbolic prophecies. Many of the stories and people are depictions or "types" of the Christ that was to come. Even the Tabernacle, the feasts and the sacrifices depict the Christ. I don't believe you would ever see these things without the help of the Holy Spirit. Trying to see it from a purely scientific, logical standpoint will never happen.
i dont know why you people create diffrnces between diffrnt religions, no religion allows that; so just stop talking about christians or dutch atleast for the sake of ur own religion. besides its not like their God is more powerful than ur God, coz GOD IS ONE.. further, miracles definately happen because they are spelled to be so. but if evry one on that plane or in evry plane crash is saved, then it wont be a miracle, that will just be oppostion of the naturez law that u dont fall down from the height. and its not like that god doesnt love his children. Some sacrifices have to be made for a continuous development of humanity.
If you are religious: It is all gods will, you are not to question his deeds.
If you are an aethist: Of course there is not god or miracle, its just probability and the thing about probability is that no probability in a real world an exact 0 or 1.
PS: I answer something witty and you award the best answer to some newbie, then i would defninitely be thinking critically at that miracle!
First of all christianity is not about miracles. read this: <18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”c
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.> you see christianity is about christ dying on the cross and then coming back from the dead in a body that does not die anymore. Is about the believe that if we are true christians He will rise us too from the dead in similar bodies. I have seen many things I can interpret as miracles while others as chance in my own life.
About that case, yes God save the boy. Why only one boy we will not know until we meet Him. About innocents, no one is innocent even if he lived only one day. There many proofs, but the persons that do not want to believe will ignore them all. People have return from the dead after days, people were cured by 'incurable' disease trough faith, people have had their prayers answers when they have lost almost all hope. But it s exactly what Jesus said in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus: "Even if someone would return from the dead to testify, they will still not believe."