What is considered a miracle?

-- John Williams (rjswilson@netzero.net), December 17, 2003

Answers

Any act tht defys natral law.

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), December 17, 2003.

Mr. Williams,
Can you explain what a miracle is ? ? ?

Tell us your version.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), December 18, 2003.

Yes a miracle is something for which there is no possible natural answer. The old Catholic Encyclopedia online has an excellent article on miracles. It is here:

http://www.newadven t.org/cathen/10338a.htm

In Christ, Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 18, 2003.

another thread about miracles:

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Salut & Cheers from a NON BELIEVER:

-- Laurent LUG (.@...), December 18, 2003.

Not sure what a miracle is myself. I s healing/cure of a disease a miracle?

Perhaps raising a dead person (as it happened in the case of Lazarus) if, proven beyond doubt (eg the person was buried & rose from the grave) will be truly a miracle.

All others are subjective? isn't it?

-- John Williams (rjswilsonr@netzero.net), December 19, 2003.

Healing of a disease can be considered a miracle, if no natural explanation exists for the healing. For example, suppose a person is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. His family and friends are all praying for him. The doctors say it is hopeless, but agree to give him a final round of radiation treatments anyway. The tumor disappears and the man recovers. The sick man, his family, and perhaps even the doctors would say it's a miracle. Perhaps it is. But the Church would not officially recognize it as such, because it is possible the radiation treatment, for reasons the doctors cannot explain, was the cause of the cure. On the other hand, if the doctors said the case was hopeless and sent the patient home to die, but his family and friends prayed for him, and the tumor disappeared, that would qualify as a miracle, since there is no possible natural explanation for the healing. Raising a person from the dead would of course qualify as a miracle, since there is no natural means by which this can occur. This of course would have to be a person who was certifiably and absolutely dead - not just resuscitation of a "clinically dead" person in an emergency room.

-- Paul M. (PaulCyp@cox.net), December 19, 2003.