(June 19, 2013 at 6:21 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote:(June 19, 2013 at 6:07 pm)Godschild Wrote:
I will ask you the same question: How do you know god did it? How do you differentiate between a miracle and a statistically unlikely event?
Like Fr0d0 said, we can't know all the miracles God does, so much of His work is done through man. Let me give you an example I see as a miracle. I use to belong to a church that had several elderly people and they were getting sick with different things, this occurred over a few years. When one of them became so sick they were dying and beginning to suffer our church would pray and ask God to take that person so they and the family would not have to go through the pain of suffering. Usually that person was gone in a couple of days, before their suffering got real bad, all these people were believed to have more time than just a couple of days, the doctors were expecting several days of suffering. Those were miracles and when I saw the families and how glad their loved one did not have to suffer, I knew we were right in asking for God to take them. In fact when it came to my fathers time and I knew he was not going to recover, I asked God to take him so he and mom would not have to suffer and God delivered another miracle. Knowing God can give one the discernment to understand when He works a miracle, not always but sometimes. Oh, statistically unlikely events that occur at a rate that is statistically unlikely are probably miracles. The best thing I actually know to say is you should try to get to know God and then you can learn about miracles form Him.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
