What is a Miracle, Do You Believe in Miracles
Everything is miraculous.
Everything is miraculous. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one’s bath. — Pablo Picasso.
An extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in humans' life. An extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment.
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific laws and gets attributed to some supernatural cause.
Also, it is an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something.
The Miracle of the Slave.
A painting by Tintoretto, 1548 from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.
It shows an episode of the life of Saint Mark, patron saint of Venice, taken from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend.
The scene shows a saint intervening to make a slave who is about to be martyred invulnerable.
Baruch Spinoza claims that miracles are merely lawlike events of whose causes we are ignorant.
Spinoza totally rejects belief in miracles as supernatural wonders.
We should treat them as having no cause or having a cause immediately available. Rather the miracle…
