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According to the Merriam-Webster a miracle is “an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment.” It is an unexpected and surprising event that is not explainable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be the work of a divine agency; some may explain the doings of a miracle on God and what he creates. Miracles occur in every day life and they also appear in the bible. Some people object to the idea of miracles, but people also claim that they have witnessed them in their own lives.
There are both examples of miracles in real life as well as miracles in the bible. One example of a miracle from the bible would be when Jesus walks on water. The story of when Jesus walks on water which was when Jesus sent the disciples by ship to the other side of the Sea of Galilee while he stayed behind to pray. Once it became nighttime the ship got caught in a storm in the sea and in the darkness and the disciples saw Jesus walking on the sea. They thought they were seeing a spirit but Jesus told them not to be afraid, so they were no longer afraid. Once Jesus went on the ship he calmed the storm and the ship went to shore. The miracle of this story from the bible is the fact that Jesus walked on water, which cannot be done in everyday life. Natural or scientific laws can’t describe this event that took place because it is not possible for people to walk on water, which makes Jesus walking on water to be called a miracle. Christian’s believe that this event was a miracle that shows the importance of faith and the control that Jesus has over nature.
An example of a miracle that has claimed to have occurred recently is shown through an event that occurred with a woman named Morgan Lake who was driving in a car that ...

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...have experienced miracles may believe this.
Miracles are capable of happening to anyone around the world and there is no way of telling when they are going to happen. They do go against what the laws of nature state but that doesn’t mean that they are not possible and you do not need to believe in God in order for them to happen to you. Even though they do appear in the Bible that does not mean God is the only reason why they occur. Miracles do happen in every day life, but they are completely unpredictable because if they were predictable they would not be called miracles they would be considered ordinary events that could be explained by sciences. Miracles can be objected, but many people have also claimed to witness them in their own lives. A miracle is an unexpected event that can’t be explained by natural or scientific laws and is the work of a divine agency.

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