Who Is The Author of Miracles?

Info for third blog on miracles:

An astute mind asks:   

“Are only place miracles ‘happen’ is in Bible stories or directly from God? 

This suggests that other cultures’ oral traditions and/or religions which tell of miracles aren’t actually real miracles.  Or that possibly ’they are mistaken’ about the origin of events they see as miracles.   

Has the word miracle been usurped by non-Christians so using this concept/term to explain ‘a non-Christi special happenings is inaccurate?  (Of course one can’t usurp something before it was even created by Christians, so I guess maybe the usurpers-title is in the eyes of the beholder.)

I guess, I am amazed that the only source seems to be the Bible for some Christians.  That danged inconvenient holistic view of the world belies this time and again.  Oh well.  No matter.”

My response:

I am thinking that your mind is getting all tangled up with the bigger picture of God.  Lets me just say that God is not limited by any one religious denomination.  The Christians try to claim the right to authentic truth.   So do the Muslims, and the Hindus, and  the Jews.  All of the world religions claim a privileged position of the same truth.  

People try to put God in a tidy boxes, filled with their own personal opinions and/or belief.  

Well, it doesn’t work.  

God is God.   Far greater, and more powerful, than any imagination we might possess.

I believe God is the same God of all religious institutions.  They may have a different name, given by each faith community.  However, God says:  “I am who I am.”  I am the creator of all that is; no matter what you call me or how you understand me.

If you ask a little child who is God?  Or what is his/her name?  They would most likely say: “God!”  Thats all, just God — “I am.”  

So when you ask:  “Are only place miracles ‘happen’ is in Bible stories or directly from God?    Has the word miracle been usurped by non-Christians so using this concept/term to explain ‘a non-Christi special happenings is inaccurate?

My response is:  God is the one and only deliverer of miracles.  God is the one and only source of all miracles.

Human beings can be a conduit, a channel, used to participate in a miracle.  But it is God who put a miracle into place, in the most impressionable ways.  

So no, in my opinion, miracles are not limited to the Christian Cannon.  Miracles occurred thousands of centuries before what we call the ancient times.  

I will even suggest that the first miracle occurred the moment God’s Spirit — the wind — moved over the face of darkness and void.  When God began to speak.  

Another question on you mind is:

“I guess, I am amazed that the only source seems to be the Bible for some Christians.  That danged inconvenient holistic view of the world belies this time and again.”

My response:

I am wondering why you seem to get your-big-girl-shorts in a knot when it comes to one, and only one,  major religion called: Christian?

I ask, because the Christian community is just one of many world religions who want to take a front seat before the thrown of God.  And each of them are flawed by the limitations of the human intellect.  And I will say that all religions find themselves ignorant before God’s thrown.

And so, the phrase “holistic view,” that you use, is not holistic at all.  But split, and derailed, by the culture in which it was born.  In a language that expresses itself differently. 

So, no.  Miracles are not limited to the Christian Bible.  Or any other human book written to explain God.

Again, my opinion that is also limited.