Q&A: Divine intervention in the world and hidden miracles
Divine intervention in the world and hidden miracles
Question
I listened to your YouTube lecture — Dogmatics, lesson 16 — and I didn’t fully understand your conclusion.
If, bottom line, you believe that the Holy One, blessed be He, can perform hidden miracles and intervene in nature, then why assume that He would do so only rarely and not frequently? What significance does the frequency of His intervention have?
If He can intervene, then maybe He intervenes endlessly, and for my part I pray that He will intervene in an issue that is close to my heart..
Answer
I’ve discussed this at length many times, and I also referred you to it on WhatsApp. In brief: of course the Holy One, blessed be He, can. The question is whether He actually does so (that is, what His policy is). As a rule, it seems that He does not intervene, but one cannot rule out rare and sporadic intervention. For details, search here on the site and in the links I sent.
Yes, you also said that in the lecture, but I don’t understand why, indeed, rare and sporadic intervention cannot be ruled out, while common and frequent intervention can be ruled out?
What is the reasoning for saying that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not intervene regularly? If it’s only because we do not feel that way, that is not an argument against hidden miracles, because that is the whole idea of a hidden miracle — that we do not experience it..
As I understand it, the very admission that the Holy One, blessed be He, can perform hidden miracles leads me to the understanding that natural reality as it appears to us has no significance whatsoever, and that is why I would indeed pray to Him about every matter, because He is the only thing that is significant..