there have been reported cases of 'Divine Intervention', which basically says that God saved you from something, or some type of Divine Being interfered with the world we live in in order to change something for the better. The question, though, is this: DOES God interfere with our lives?
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YesI explain Divine Intervention like this, when the devil completely has your soul, when you see that he exists in this world and is at work against you, to corrupt your mind and turn you into rubbish, and then you realize. That is Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention is what many people who have lived street thug lives have experienced, where they were asked the question of why they are running scared. God has mercy and compassion on everyone, but he wants people to learn their lessons. Many people come so close to dying and survive only to claim that they are only alive to change their ways. This is truth. It is easy to see the world in a scientific way, but in such a way you are the easiest of prey to the devil. I myself fell to the devil, I came this close to losing myself forever. It is a scary situation when the person in your head isn't who you know you are. So I followed that wrong voice and it took me deeper and deeper in the trap, and then one day I heard a voice. I won't say it was God's voice, for I could never hear his, but the voice of me as a child inside my head. It said "why are you doing this. why are you doing this when it kills you." And indeed it had been killing me. Believe it or not, I had never been taught by my parents that drugs were "bad", the contrary, my parents loved drugs and if i brought it to them they'd be most pleased. So I say this, I STILL NEW IT WAS WRONG. This is proof of the conscience, and the voice I heard I concider Divine Intervention, for God could have kept my heart hardened, but he has a purpose for me.28% Voted for by Rootless, bob2314.
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I'm Afraid Not. At least, not in that sense.Voted for by Mad-Hatter.
I do not believe that God interferes with our world, at least, not in that sense. I believe that everyone gets to some situation through a series of choices. We are constantly confronted with choices, some being small and insignificant, others being very large and life-altering. However, as the Butterfly Effect states, a series of small events CAN be life-altering.
let's not get off subject, though.
It is my religious belief that God is omnipotent. He sees, hears, and knows everything. He knows what will happen, what could have happened, and what DID happen. As such, why would He wait until the last minute to save your life when He knew that you would be confronted with a life-threatening situation? I don't believe He does. I believe that He works within His own set of rules for nature and physics, and that he has these rules work in a certain manner to do a certain thing reacting to your choice in the situation. Kind of like knocking down some dominoes, aiming to knock down the very last one. You COULD just go walk over and flick it down with your finger, or you could set the very first one into motion, and eventually knock down the last one.
This means your reaction was predetermined. Not to be confused with preset. Preset would deny choice. Predertermined means you already knew it was gonna happen, but you didn't MAKE it happen. So, logically, if you could somehow defy God, and work against His plans (though I don't believe you can. This is merely to clarify further on my point), then you could react differently than He had planned. And as such, the events that He set into motion wouldn't affect you.
I guess what I'm just trying to say (because I'm confusing myself) is that there is no Divine Intervention. I don't believe angels come down from Heaven in the middle of a fire and tell you to follow them. I don't believe that God redirecting a falling pillar so it would miss you. I believe that scientifically something in that fire made you hallucinate, and you reacted to that hallucination, as God had planned, knowing you would believe it was an angel (but He didn't force you to believe it was an angel). I believe that scientifcally that pillar was coming down, and that something scientifically explainable made it fall the other way. God put a set of events into place that would eventually lead to a certain thing at a certain place. Sort of like, "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Yes. Whether or not you were there, that tree WILL make a sound, and WILL fall. God didn't miraculously make that tree make a sound just because you were there. It would have happened regardless.
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Hard To ExplainVoted for by Trinh Rizci.
Divine intervention, I think, is more like an account of karma... If you are good and find yourself in an excessively bad position, then some good fortune stocked away for you comes into play and you're spared some unfortunate fate. And then there are those of us who just "luck out" and even if we're horrible people, we still survive a bullet through the eye or a tumble from a cliff or whatnot.
That's the simplified version.
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Why Not?Voted for by Makessenseright.
If God wants to interfere, for any reason, He will. One possible reason I could think of is to increase your faith, but there are probably thousands that God only knows. He could have set it up like dominoes, but I don't believe He did, I think He is actively involved in every persons life.
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Doubt itIf He does, I feel it is very minimal. Like He has a willingness and desire to be in our hearts and guide us, but it's mostly up to use to find and accept this.Voted for by Weydon.
As far as actually doing things physically, I can't imagine He's done much since the Creation. If He has been saving lives and all that, I doubt my ability to understand why some lives were worth saving and others not. -
Mind InterventionThe Divine, The Infinite, God does not interfere nor intervene. Your fall from grace came from diverting from the Divine. Your soul has an inkling for something that is missing. The mind is using all its tricks and thoughts and knowledge to make you stay away from you're only true purpose in life: a rendevous with God. Your soul acts as a bridge between mind and God. It is like the Holy Spirit in Christianity. The Holy Spirit intervenes, yes. But God does not. There is only one way that God comes to you: you drop the mind completely and absolutely.Voted for by Brew Kline.
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February 11, 2007
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