Miracles depend on what, who and how it happened, e.g. the train stopping at the right time before it hits the boy on the bicycle. But for some people a miracle could be just having a baby because they were not able to, “a transgression of a law of nature”. Miracles depends on the situation is but for other people it just may be a nothing of the significant.

WHAT ARE MIRACLES

Introduction (The train miracles)

• A child riding his toy motor car strays on to an ungraded rail way crossing near his house and a wheel of his car gets stuck down the side of one rails. An express train is due to pass with the signal in its favour and a curve in the track makes it impossible for the driver to stop his train in time to avoid any obstruction he might encounter on the crossing. The mother coming out of the house to look for her child sees him on the crossing and hers the train approaching. She runs forward shouting and waving. The brakes of the train are applied and it comes to a rest a few feet from the child. The mother thanks God for the miracle.

What miracles means to R.F.Holland

• Miracles are not believable because they have no proof, as well as it depends on who it happened to. In the example of the boy nearly getting hit on his bicycle, It was the mother that thought it was an miracle, but nothing out of the ordinary happened, it could be a coincident.
• Holland also say that miracles are a “a remarkable and beneficial confidences that is interpreted in a religious fashion” this means, it is there so that it can make the believers into stronger believers as well as have a reason.

Tillich

• "Miracles cannot be interpreted in terms of a supernatural interference in natural processes. ... A genuine miracle is first of all an event which is astonishing, unusual, shaking, without contradicting the rational structure of reality. In the second place, it is an event which points to the mystery of being, expressing its relation to us in a definite way. In the third place, it is an occurrence which is received as a sign-event in an ecstatic experience"

Hume’s views

• Miracle is a “a transgression of a law of nature” When he says this a example would be Jesus walking on water. This would count as a violation of the law of nature.
• A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined....Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happens in the common course of nature.

Hume’s

• He also believes that only theistic people can believe in this.

Conclusion

• In conclusion R. F. Holland says if something happens everyday it cant be a miracle e.g. the man fainting and at that time falling on the breaks doesn't make it a miracle it just may be a coincident.