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A miracle is an event that goes counter to the natural order or against the laws of nature. Miracles have religious significance in many religious traditions and are attributed to God, saints, founders, and prophets – they are acts of God if they have occurred. The most famous miracles are those that Bible records in the old and new testament. Many people are familiar with stories of biblical miracles, and some, such as central old testaments' account of the parting of the Red Sea.
The story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt: burning bush, ten plagues of Egypt, including the Angel of Death, and hailstorm that destroys most of the Amorite army. and Central new testament’s report Jesus Christ resurrection from the dead. Rose after three days.
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Such an event is construed as an act of God intervening in the natural order and thus ‘violating’ the laws of nature.
A Contingency miracle is an act of God. Unlike Intervention miracles, Contingency miracles do not require a violation of the laws of nature. An essential feature of Contingency miracles is the “thankability” of God. When X believes that God should be thanked and does so, X is attributing responsibility to God for allowing something to occur or bringing it about.
Example: a child riding a tricycle who is stuck in the tracks of an approaching train. It looks as though the train is going to hit the child, but just before it reached the child, an airline ruptures which causes the airbrakes automatically to be applied. How would a believer and a nonbeliever see this event? (Student explanations and hermeneutics of the event). If the mother of the child is religious, she would thank God for saving her child, for being somehow responsible for sparing her child despite the fact that there is a natural explanation for the rupturing of the airline. A nonbeliever, on the other hand, would invoke coincidence, luck or physical or some other explanation devoid of divine

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