Such expression seems to be nothing other than good but it really is a subtle "feel good" new age expression that belittles miracles and makes unthinking people settle to be content with no miracles in their lives with the end result of reducing or removing faith in God from their mindset and heart.
If everything is a miracle, then there is really no miracle.
A miracle, by definition, practice and orthodox tradition is an unusual act of God which evidently contradicts the "natural" course of events and discounting co-incidences.
Co-incidence may be generally settled by the verdicts of probability and possibility. If a so-called miracle is naturally possible given the usual practices or course of events, then it definitely is no miracle at all. If it is impossible or "close to naturally impossible" but it happens anyway after a penitent appeal to God, then it is definitely a miracle of the Biblical kind.
This is not to discount thanking God for life and the little big things in life. But we should never play with words when it comes to Scriptural principles.
If everything is a miracle, then there is really no miracle.
A miracle, by definition, practice and orthodox tradition is an unusual act of God which evidently contradicts the "natural" course of events and discounting co-incidences.
Co-incidence may be generally settled by the verdicts of probability and possibility. If a so-called miracle is naturally possible given the usual practices or course of events, then it definitely is no miracle at all. If it is impossible or "close to naturally impossible" but it happens anyway after a penitent appeal to God, then it is definitely a miracle of the Biblical kind.
This is not to discount thanking God for life and the little big things in life. But we should never play with words when it comes to Scriptural principles.
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