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@HippieDrummer06 I understand the difficulty in believing in that which you have not seen. But, if your comment is simply aimed at no evidence for any miracle - my existence is evidence for you. I am the recipient of such a miracle, as my eyesight was restored to me when multiple specialists told me there was no hope. A last round of testing before surgery proved them wrong - my sight was restored 20/20 - still to this day 23 years later. They even confessed, it was a miracle.
I think that miracles are matters of the heart. We can only see this, when we begin to think clearly. Yet we can only think clearly, when we attend to the matters of the heart. This isn't linear learning (like what we did from grade school on up), and it takes "risk." Perhaps this is why the first "light" or step in deepening faith, is to take that "leap" of faith. Happy Chanukah
Yea, miracles are something we WANT to believe in because they make us feel better about ourselves (family member's deaths, our own inevitable deaths and an afterlife). Too bad there is not one single piece of evidence for these miracles. It sounds so lovely, nice and poetic, but the truth isn't always so lovely, nice and poetic. Beliefs such as these threaten our intelligence.
@HippieDrummer06 I understand the difficulty in believing in that which you have not seen. But, if your comment is simply aimed at no evidence for any miracle - my existence is evidence for you. I am the recipient of such a miracle, as my eyesight was restored to me when multiple specialists told me there was no hope. A last round of testing before surgery proved them wrong - my sight was restored 20/20 - still to this day 23 years later. They even confessed, it was a miracle.
mcdees2784 in reply to HippieDrummer06 (Show the comment) 3 months ago
I think that miracles are matters of the heart. We can only see this, when we begin to think clearly. Yet we can only think clearly, when we attend to the matters of the heart. This isn't linear learning (like what we did from grade school on up), and it takes "risk." Perhaps this is why the first "light" or step in deepening faith, is to take that "leap" of faith. Happy Chanukah
DonnaChava 3 months ago
@HippieDrummer06 Your whole life is a miracle.
yoyothriller in reply to HippieDrummer06 (Show the comment) 3 months ago
Yea, miracles are something we WANT to believe in because they make us feel better about ourselves (family member's deaths, our own inevitable deaths and an afterlife). Too bad there is not one single piece of evidence for these miracles. It sounds so lovely, nice and poetic, but the truth isn't always so lovely, nice and poetic. Beliefs such as these threaten our intelligence.
HippieDrummer06 1 year ago
Very well put.. "miracles also grow from the human heart" YES.
11JULIEN 2 years ago