Does Divine Intervention Still Happen?

These interactions helped and still help people to understand their origin and relationships with the divinities they may or may not have experienced directly. The epic of the Odyssey would not have turned out the way it had without the involvement of gods and goddesses. The art we see from the ancient world would have been much different without the influence of the divine. Without the divine the art viewed, music seen, and literature read today would not be the same. The interaction of the divine and human kind is prevalent in almost all situations and is very present in the world

David Hume, a Scottish philosopher made the claim the “miracles are a violation of the laws of nature” (Hume). Meaning that through science and reason there is a very limited chance that what some thinks is a miracle is actually one. Though, Hume does say that you can define a miracle as the opposite of what you actually think is a miracle. As the document goes on, he writes that “nothing is an esteemed miracle, if it ever happen in the common course of nature” (Hume). Hume shows that even though we think that certain things have to be miracles it is no feasible that they happen. A miracle can only happen once, so if this thing that people are classifying as a miracle happens over and over again it is most likely not a miracle, but something natural and scare at the same time. If miracles do happen though, they are going against the natural force of nature. However, other writers had different ideas about the importance of miracles with the Christian

On October 30th, I followed the religious practices of Shabbat while keeping my deceased uncle in my prayers throughout the experience. The day of our Shabbat practice was also the birthday of my uncle Greg, who passed away two years and nine months ago. My uncle was also my godfather although I did not see him much, living on the opposite side of the United States, I cherished all the things he did for me throughout my life. In my Shabbat involvement, I read all of the suggested prayers for each part in the religious practice, as well as tying in my Catholic faith during the prayers. Throughout my Shabbat experience, I kept my deceased uncle in mind, enjoying the rare family time, the much needed rest, as well as experiencing new religious

David Hume is one of the world’s most well-known and relevant philosophers, in his time and still to this day. In one of his most famous writings, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, he dedicates a whole chapter to exploring the validity of miracles, based on his own premise (That they defy the laws of nature), a chapter so large, it is separated into two parts. Exploration of Miracles is a large topic for philosophical discussion as it has caught the attention and caused the works of many of the world’s most famous philosophers, such as David Hume, Richard Swinburne and Peter Atkins.

The idea of a miracle and its context depends on the definition in which it is used; the first definition of a miracle is a “transgression of the laws of nature” such as walking on water. This was used by Hume who stated that for a miracle to occur a law of nature must be broken, with this focus on laws of nature he aimed to show that it is irrational to believe in miracles because it is irrational to believe in a violation of any natural law, as by believing in this God becomes redundant. He puts forward the method of proportioning the belief to evidence – if you weigh up the miracle against another option what is more likely? That a miracle, a transgression of a law of nature, has occurred or

This is an example of a problem that happen ay my church, the youth department went on a skiing trip in North Carolina. During the trip one of the kids start throwing up blood in the sink. So the staff that was on the trip start praying about what they should do. They felt like God was telling them to go to Walgreens and get some Benadryl. The staff was trying to decide rather they should take Lee to the hospital or not. So they gat to gather and start praying to God about what they should do in this situation. Both of them felt like God wonted him to rest. A couple of house later another kid had diarrhea.

Even if my dad was driving over the speed limit, every second felt as though we were moving really slow. I was so ashamed of myself that tears began to fall down my face. We finally reached the Orlando Hospital and I began to control my tears. My father pulled over and drove towards the ER parking lot. He found a spot near the entrance and decided to park. Everyone exited the vehicle and speed walked through the entrances automatic doors. I am certain that there were multiple other patients arriving and things going on but my nerves prevented me from being observant of my surroundings. Reaching the front desk my mom explained Pablito’s situation and was given paperwork to fill out. After waiting for a good while in the waiting room they finally called “Pablo Jesus Garcia.” We were taken to a sound proof room to talk to an employee. The man in the uniform looked over the paper work and began to ask me multiple questions over the situation. I answered each question honestly. Once I was done he commented in a soothing voice, “Sweet heart my job is to determine if you’re lying, no need to be nervous. As for the restaurant, did you know that you could sue them? They did after all leave a dangerous chemical out in the open.” As beneficial as this sounded, suing was not even part of my worries. I just wanted to find out if Pablito was going to have eye

testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish…” (E 10.13)

Carol has a condition called Graph vs Host disease which is a side effect of having a stem cell transplant. She is 62 years old and on hospice. Her parents are 92 and live in an assisted living facility in Phoenix. When I met with Carol the first time, she told me she had been praying for months that God would lead her to someone who could help her get to her parents for a final visit.

My mom is one of the housekeeping who work at Loma Linda Medical Center. Last year on July 2014, my mom injured herself at her workplace. She fell from a ladder while she was trying to clean one of the curtain. When i heard the news that my mom was injured and admitted to the Emergency, i was panicked and shocked. I went to the ER right away to visit her and she was in a terrible condition at that time. She was in so much pain and kept on crying due the pain that she has to deal with at that moment. I decided to be by her side and comfort her until she feel better. I was really worried and did not know what to do to lessen her pain. I decided to pray and ask for God's grace to help lessen her pain. She never experienced this type of injury

My older sister with eleven kids could not help my parents. She’s busy with her small tribe that she doesn’t have the time to be there for them. So, when my sister visited our dad at the hospital, he was already transferred to the critical care unit (CCU). While she was visiting my parents, the doctor spoke to her about a simple yet an invasive procedure

In reply to David Hume’s Of Miracles Richard Swinburne argues that the evidence necessary to justify belief in miracles shouldn’t be as rigorous as Hume purports. Hume suggests that for belief in a miraculous event to be justifiable its falsehood would have to be more miraculous than the evidence for the law of nature it violates. The stance occupied by Hume allows for miracles, but only in a very loose sense. For example, if you or someone else reports that a miracle has occurred, Hume would argue that it is more likely you/the reporter experienced a hallucination or are simply lying than that you/they actually experienced a miracle. Hume ironically justifies this by appealing to past experiments that support the law of nature (cough cough

In our world, there are things occur that defy any logic and that science says is impossible. For example, there are cases in which people have risen from the dead, after science said that there was nothing else that could have been done. There are also cases in which people have been cured of incurable diseases; like third stage, after science says there was no possibly of survival or recovery. Therefore, do to these events in which people call

In July I was having problems with my vision and decided to go to the optometrist about it. Now, it’s important that I say how much eyes FREAK ME OUT. They’re squishy and odd and I hate when people touch them, so naturally I was nervous about the eye appointment. “You’ll be fine Anne Marie, it’s just an eye appointment.” my mother said to me. After what seemed like an eternally long car ride, we reached the optometrist office. Once we checked in and reached the eye exam room The doctor numbed and dilated my eyes, so that she could check my eye pressure and look into my eyes. After the tests the doctors explained to me that my left eye is 20/20 and my right eye is very nearsighted. The optometrist decided to send me to the hospital because they

Within the span of her life a sweet little angel was in and out of Tampa Regional Medical Hospital, came home for a whole month until the day that changed everything. Airlifted back to the Hospital for a ruptured incision; which she had gotten from a surgery when she was just an infant. It seemed like this little blue eyed girl would never catch a break. Her mother – who was the Girlfriend of my Brothers Best Friend, who is kind of like a Brother to me – posted on Facebook, a Social Media site, every couple of minutes updating her loved ones about information on her precious baby. As the minutes proceeded to crawl by slower and slower I started to get worried.