Do people exaggerate miracles?

Asked by Feta (930

) May 14th, 2013

It seems like I’m hearing a story daily of someone who experienced a “miracle”.

Like saying if they passed a certain car on the highway, they would have been in the wreck that happened rather than that car.

Or saying if they hadn’t gotten somewhere earlier or later than usual, they would have been caught up in some tragedy.

Or doctors telling families things like, “Well, if you had waited a (day, minute, hour, week) later, he would have died!”

I just feel like it’s exaggerated to make people feel better sometimes.

Or do you believe in miracles?

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To my way of thinking, the real miracle is that people believe in miracles. We were born and we live, love and procreate. Isn’t that enough miracle already?

Pachy (18610

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By definition alone, the word itself is an excercise in exaggeration.

ucme (50047

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I heard that someone was saying that the rescue of the two women who were imprisoned for 10 years was a miracle from God. Was God also responsible for getting them captured?

Rarebear (25192

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What people exaggerate are coincidences. Or plain old luck. Miracles by another name, if you will.

augustlan (47745

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Miracle, a divine intervention.
Perhaps these people felt that was the only explaination?
Some exaggerate others just use the wrong word to describe it, I guess?

Inspired_2write (14486

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I think it’s just a word to convey a deep emotional response.

People don’t necessarily mean it in a Catholic sense, nor even in a God-intervention sense.

When those coincidences happen to other people, you think “Wow. Good timing!” or something similar. When it happens to you personally, you need a bigger word.

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