My Personal New Years Eve Miracle (MUST READ THIS)

I'm glad Jet's ok.

 

It's like a payback Paladin for all you do.

Great Christmas present for you. To see a tragedy and the miracle that can come from it.

 

Thanks for sharing that Paladin. I'm glad Jet is ok.

 

Glad your dog is ok. I remember hearing a story about a dog that fell off a cliff about the same distance and survived with minor bruises and scratches. Pretty lucky little fella. Hopefully he learned his lesson to look before he leaps. Hope he feels better soon.

 

aaww that is great.....so happy to hear that you shared what God did for you and your family.........ty

 

Not to be a bummer, but I'm betting it's just like the football team who just won...God was there and favored that one team.

God is a big sports fan, obviously, as the team who won all say it was because he let them.

God allowed your dog to survive this fall. Yet thousands of Humans die all around the world. Other animals die from similar falls or other accidents.

Some survive the same, just as Humans do.

In fact, a friend of mine, his kid survived a two story drop with no after effects or broken bones. The kid was about three I believe, maybe two.

Yet I know a person who fell from a one story drop and died. They were around 20 years old.

I'm glad the dog survived, but to me it isn't a Miracle. Just Good Fortune.

 

Thats pretty much how I see it, but I'm not going to rain on anybody's parade. Though isn't it kind of a catch 22 to say God has a plan for everything, but at the same time believe your prayers can impact that plan? Or that this God intervened in his own plan to rewrite it just for you? Nevermind, not going to go there. It's certainly true that the dog was fortunate, be it due to an omnipotent man in the sky changing his mind about his plan, or otherwise.

I definitely get a good chuckle out of people that go so far as to say their team was favored by God when they won the game though. Convinced that their prayers were heard and the outcome was influenced by them.

 

Thank you Hamma

I know what it's like to lose a pet. They are like one of the family. So I am very glad to hear your dog is ok. I am curious to know what made him jump?

 

Hey, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that religious debates just don't work here in the CDL forums. I wasn't trying to instigate anything, I was just commenting further on what Ground Chuk had to say. It is perfectly reasonable to explain why it doesn't seem like such a miracle. I'm sure it shouldn't bother those who feel it is a miracle, if it does, they need to learn to be tolerant of other people's opinions. If you have a right to say it is a miracle, I certainly have the right to say it isn't. A religious debate shouldn't spawn from that, not unless one side starts asserting its views as objective. This thread does have a hint of "here's proof miracles happen" to it, and judging from the first sentence, almost seems like it is challenging me to prove it isn't a miracle. But I'm willing to let it slide and rather than explain why it wasn't a miracle as Chuk was alluding to, simply make verbal my own opinion: This thread certainly does not convince me miracles happen.

But like I said before, miracle or not, the dog is alive and well and that really should be the main focus of this thread, not whether miracles happen or not.

 

Main Entry: mir·a·cle
Pronunciation: \ˈmir-i-kəl\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin miraculum, from Latin, a wonder, marvel, from mirari to wonder at
Date: 12th century
1: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
2: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
3Christian Science : a divinely natural phenomenon experienced humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual law

Seems to me based on definition #2 - this could be considered a miracle, to Paladin it sure was. I get frustrated by the fact we feel the need to thread crap just because he shared a personal story he felt was miraculous? Do you think he will have the desire to share special stories in his personal life with some of us again?

I guess my point is - if you dont believe in God or think it was a miracle great. But it was truly a good story and a moment he is now able to look back on and personally thank his God that he believes in for.
Thank you for sharing it with us Paladin. Truly an incredible story!

 

Think of it like this. Say the same thing happened to one of my dogs, and I posted about it emphasizing that no gods or miracles were involved, and that it was entirely due to luck. It is a supurfluous thing to do. The story would be just as good without the declaration that a miracle took place. That's all. Since the presumption was made that a miracle took place, it was countered with "not necessarily". Is that really crapping on a thread? When religious people talk about events with a religious bias, am I supposed to just be quiet and smile? They certainly don't tend to return the favor when discussing things like evolution, or the origins of the universe, do they?

I won't let them have their cake and eat it too.

But seriously, moving on. ----->http://youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY

 

OMG poor puppy! When I was reading this it made me want to cry! I have cats and Id be so hurt to see anything ever happen to them. They are my kids. Im glad Jet wasnt harmed. Miracle's do come true!! Give Jet a hug for me! <3

 

Based on the first sentence of the original post, I think it's pretty obvious that Paladin was going for definition #1, though definition #2 certainly fits. And that's fine, he's free to interpret events in his own life however he wants to. At the same time, I see where others are coming from, seeing that same sentence as something of a challenge and responding to it. That's fine, too -- it's all part of human communication. I see your point, too -- it is an incredible story, and I'm glad he shared it with us.

I'm just glad that Jet is okay, though whether it's through divine intervention or simple luck is a subject that I have little interest in.