RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 17, 2013 at 12:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2013 at 12:30 am by Cyberman.)
(July 16, 2013 at 8:28 pm)Dionysius Wrote: Miracle:
an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
This is how I am describing the event of inspiration (whatever that may mean) which caused various individuals to develop a system of thinking and action which created tremendous change. For example, Buddha, Moses, Ghandi, Jesus, Mohammed, etc.
Ok, so we're going to ignore the primary definition given for the word miracle:
Quote:an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
I'm fine with that for the moment. Let's go with the secondary definition you chose. Does that mean that my winning the lottery, or finishing my novel and getting published to well-deserved critical acclaim, would also be a miracle? Or maybe something less dramatic but no less significant, such as overcoming some life changing disability against all the odds? How about surviving a fall from tremendous height after a parachute failure? This is what I meant by a bastardisation of the word until it becomes less miraculous and increasingly mundane.
However, since the actual existence of several of your roll-call cast is questionable at best, whether or not the term "miracle" can be applied to what you describe, using either definition, becomes decidedly moot.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'