What is a miracle?

When I was in high school, there was one particular substitute teacher who was always telling stories about seeing aliens and one story that I can't tell if he was telling the truth about or not. His story was very interesting and had physical evidence to prove the story true.

He was a young man working for a farmer, cutting wood for him far back in the woods miles from the farmers house. As he was cutting a limb off the tree when his chainsaw kicked back and…

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An excerpt from the life of Kairan:

 

My mom and I are watching The Weather Channel in our condo on the east cost of Florida.  We want to see how nasty things will get for us with Hurricane Irene.  It turns out she's forecast to pass by us two-hundred miles out to sea, throwing 50 to 70 mph winds our way. 

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A miracle is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (Hume, 123n). Theologians of the Abrahamic religions consider only God-willed contravention of the laws of nature to be true miracles. However, they admit others can do and have done things which contravene the laws of nature; such acts are attributed to diabolical… Continue

Natural disasters, which came about before and as the result of man's fall, are a horrible reminder of what sin brought to our planet before we sinned. God in his infinite power could have set anything in motion for our transgressions. He could have created a monster to go around gobbling people up at random, or for people wanting the ground to swallow them up at embarrassing moments to get their wish. But in his infinite wisdom he chose things like…

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