Why Miracles are more common than people think

[jennifer_bloom]

I know a girl who tried really hard in high school and never got above a B+ in math and was always targeted by bullies for being chubby and neutral looking.

In university, she became founder and president of the girls sorority, her first job was previewing Disney movies and deciding which ones would get placed on the market for the whole world to see and her second job was working as a chaperone for the Washington wizard cheerleaders leading to her celebrity connections.

In her early 30s, she graduated with an Executive MBA degree from an Ivy League American school with a satellite campus in Europe, despite getting low B’s in high school math, she got her first Wall Street job at age 32. Now she is dating her old Ivy League MBA professor and living in a 5,000 square foot apartment in Manhattan.

This is a miracle that somebody once bullied and bad at math could achieve it.

And than I know another girl who was so disabled after a car accident she had difficulty washing more than 2 dishes a week due to brain confusion, and now her IQ is 140 and she’s published 35 books, and won awards for her novels and teaches music, writes music, works as a graphic artist, and multiple award winning novelist, while managing 3 kids from her divorce.

The medical research says IQ cannot be raised, but I gave you two examples of non religious people who changed their IQ well late into adult hood, God performs miracles for everyone who is nice and hard working, and many are never declared or shared with others.

[Anonymous]

I believe in miracles. I know that God exists and all things are possible with his help. I had a childhood disease and was told I would not walk. I also stuttered in my youth. With the help of doctors I was able to overcome both. After high School I went into the military and spent some time.

[Brammer54]

It's not a god send miracle. It's called willingness (for the lack of better word). If you put your mind to something, you can pull it off.

Only thing you can probably label a god send miracle is a terminally ill cancer patient on their last breath miraculously surviving.

[NikolasGLT]

Absolutely agree with you, believing in "god" is just a life style or a way people choose to live, but they call that life style a "religion".
Willingness as you said, motivation and consistency is what can a change a person's life from 0 to 100 over the years.
I don't know a single person who ACTUALLY gave everything they had to make their life better yet never saw an improvement in their life.
If someone fails or suffer.
People make me laugh when they think that I should "have some faith".
Just because I will have some faith, it won't change the fact that I will die earlier than most people and it won't change anything about my current illnesses.
Believing in god and in miracles is purely a life style and there is nothing more to it. That is all, in my opinion.

[Weapon77]

Miracles do not exist, so they cannot be more common than people think. If anything, they are less common since some people believe they exist when they don't. The stories you told are inspirational, not miraculous (and that's assuming they are even true). You could have completely made those up though since we have no sources or anyway to confirm. But they could also be true and happened because of hard work, drive, and a little help from the right people. None of that is miraculous; that's life. Some people are just too lazy or victim-minded to admit their situation is their own fault, or that when something bad hapoens to them that isn't their fault, it is their own fault if they stay down.

The first lady simply had good work ethic 🤷‍♂️ Nothing miraculous there.

The second lady already had a high IQ before her accident. It might've been 150 before and she was able to recover full brain function through working hard in rehab. Or her IQ was higher than 140 (perhaps 150 ), and her accident lowered it a bit. But that kind of thing isn't very noticeable like it would be if her IQ had been 100 (average) before the accident and lowered to 90 after. She would've been visibly special needs during recovery and would still be noticeably not very bright after recovering most of her brain function later with a 90 IQ.

I'm a psychologist, so I know all about IQ. Nothing miraculous here.

[jennifer_bloom]

What type of psychology do you specialize in? I think it’s an amazing profession and if I did not work in my field, I may have chose it.

[Weapon77]

I do not have a specialty yet exactly. I'm working on Forensic Psych Masters right now.

[MDANAE88]

Healing

[love_conquers_lust]

Each scenario she described meets the definition of miracle.

If you accept the definition that miracles are nouns referring statistical anomalies, then they do exist.

[Twalli]

The second story reminds of a girl who is my personal hero, I actually know her. At 18 she was in a car accident and survived but was declared paralyzed and mute. The doctors said she could never move again or talk. She decided that that wouldn't happen and taught herself how to walk and talk again. She's now 41 and appears to be completely normal. She has difficulty with long term memory, but outside of that is 100% functional. She wanted to walk and talk again and decided, that it didn't matter what doctors said, she would do it.

[bennies_819]

Most people don't believe that God is real because they don't see him but I am here to tell you I see miracles when I see them and even if I don't see them they happen every single day every single second of every other person's life. Jesus is the only way to heaven everybody has to repent cuz Jesus will be coming soon and everybody get their lives together start reading your Bibles and start talking to God and try to have a relationship with him cuz that is what I'm trying to do as of a couple months ago and I want to be ready for his judgment miracles happen for a reason whether it is a breakup moving schools or even things that look bad but actually a blessing in disguise and we won't understand until we see the aftermath of it.

[Anonymous]

"Miracles" should only be used if NO explanation is available.

When a 2 month old goes into surgery for heart problems, if he lives it's a "miracle", if he dies it's on the doctor... Why does God only get credit for the success and not the failure? Why does the doctor not get accolades for the decades of training and living clean enough to have a steady hand?

I'm sorry, but show me actual proof of God, then I'll give him accolades once we establish that and that your version is the correct version.

[exitseven]

It sounds more like hard work and not Devine intervention

God's work must truly be our own.

[Staximus]

The first example is not a miracle at all, just hard work and determination

[tony_love_girls]

Some situations will change life.

[collie22]

We should be thank for our Blessings

[maximumpower]

They're not.