The Divine Intervention!

[kosiosko 1]

A friend of mine was bemoaning loosing her high paying corporate job just weeks after buying a new house , she had depleted ALL of her savings and was telling me she could no longer even afford petrol, to come to the Community house we were helping to set up... the doorbell rang ...
when she came back she was smiling and crying... a stranger had given her an envelope with $500 , said, for you work in ST. Kilda and left... now i know what probably happened but...

 

[Yared]

@Arakhor: Aha, now it makes sense

@Kosiosko: $500? Is that like one month's mortgage for her? And if she got kicked, how can she be working for ST?

 

[kosiosko 1]

@Arakhor: Aha, now it makes sense

@Kosiosko: $500? Is that like one month's mortgage for her? And if she got kicked, how can she be working for ST?

no thats like a few months of petrol for her voluntary work
the mortgage she covered by her termination payment (6 months/bout$9k), she was not in threat of loosing her house, just for the first time in her life she didn't know how she would afford petrol or even food. she's a smart lady works at a high corporate level. as it was she found a new job in 6 months and we actually gave out food parcells at the drop in

 

[Birdjaguar]

Having been brought up as a Christian Scientist, I am well used to accounts of miraculous healings which seem to defy accepted medical knowledge (broken bones healing in days rather than weeks, for instance). Having had 20 years of those experiences, I can say with certainty that a lot of what we humans find miraculous is down to knowing precisely what to do in any given situation, no matter how hopeless, and maintaining a positive spiritual outlook on life.

If you want documented evidence of how something similar can work, check on the displays that the Tibetan monks put on, lying on beds of nails and so on. They long ago told their bodies to stop worrying about merely mortal sensations and you can see the benefits that that has brought them.

Christian Science is a pretty remarkable religion. It is great to have that perspective here.

 

[classical_hero]

I asked this question in the Preaching Atheism thread but I felt that it deserved it's own thread since I'm sure a lot of religious people didn't go into that thread at all.



Pick an event (or more if you wanna) in your life that you're convinced was the work of a divine intervention.

Obviously that intervention must have been done by your divine Being.

Now tell me exactly you know that it was your God and not just some other God whose work got miss-credited, or a God who's trolling around?

Well if you are the one to decide the God of your choice, then basically you are playing God yourself, since you are the one who is making all the rules.

 

[_random_]

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Okay.

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I do apologize if my posts reeked of religious nuttery.

 

[classical_hero]

I'm sorry, but misfortunes on me are NOT my fault. Is it my fault that the economy is sucky that caused my former employer to lay me and others off? NO!!!. Don't Ever, EVER assume that things gone bad are my fault. Hense forth, I still blame God for my misfortunes and continue to turn my back against him and not believe in him.

Go take psychology if you dont understand and continue to preach "It's your fault".

So was it Job's fault he lost everything? You should take a page from him, since he suffered far greater than what will ever suffer and yet he remained faithful to God. You still at least have a roof over your head and food to eat and yet many people are struggling to even have those two things, so quite looking at yourself and see that others are in far greater need than you will ever be.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I asked this question in the Preaching Atheism thread but I felt that it deserved it's own thread since I'm sure a lot of religious people didn't go into that thread at all.



Pick an event (or more if you wanna) in your life that you're convinced was the work of a divine intervention.

Obviously that intervention must have been done by your divine Being.

Now tell me exactly you know that it was your God and not just some other God whose work got miss-credited, or a God who's trolling around?

I suppose Divine Calling would qualify almost all of your requisites except the last one. I suppose it is possible that Loki (a troll of a god if there ever was one) decided to call on me to follow Jesus Christ. However, I find that to be less then likely.

 

[Yared]

I suppose Divine Calling would qualify almost all of your requisites except the last one. I suppose it is possible that Loki (a troll of a god if there ever was one) decided to call on me to follow Jesus Christ. However, I find that to be less then likely.

Why is your God more likely to exist than Loki?

(Barring the fact that Loki died in the Ragnarök; "Loki" could be any other deity, known or unknown.)

Well if you are the one to decide the God of your choice, then basically you are playing God yourself, since you are the one who is making all the rules.

So whenever you attribute something to God you're playing God?

 

[Ekolite]

Why is your God more likely to exist than Loki?

(Barring the fact that Loki died in the Ragnarök; "Loki" could be any other deity, known or unknown.)

Because all Gods, if Gods exist, are mere aspects of one divine being or greater truth. Monotheistic religions worship this divine being as a whole and not as a collection of inter-related aspects. For polytheistic religions I can only really talk about Hinduism, and even then I don't know a huge amount about it, but I believe their Gods are generally recognised as parts of a greater being.

 

[Yared]

Because all Gods, if Gods exist, are mere aspects of one divine being or greater truth. Monotheistic religions worship this divine being as a whole and not as a collection of inter-related aspects. For polytheistic religions I can only really talk about Hinduism, and even then I don't know a huge amount about it, but I believe their Gods are generally recognised as parts of a greater being.

So because your spirituality is so broad, it makes my question moot.

 

[Luckymoose]

The closest thing to divine intervention is this brain God gave me and it's ability to not believe in or worship him.