Most people give re-meaning to a miracle because they see it as an extraordinary event which is unexplainable and is not part of the regular course of nature; also they see miracles as showing God’s power.
Some think the definition of a miracle is, ‘something that is supernatural’, that it can simply be an event where someone changes for the good or if good triumphs over evil. Many parents consider the birth of their children or child a miracle even though the birth of children happens frequently. In the Bible miracles were when God interfered, and helped reveal the true nature of God and more specifically Jesus. For example, in Luke’s gospel when Jesus feeds the five thousand with fish and bread or when he clams the storm-the laws of nature were overcome.
People, who don’t believe that God was actually interacting with the world, may simply say that events like these were just coincidence, so they think miracles are just luck.
However we have to accept that our knowledge is incomplete, therefore what may appear to be a miracle may simply just be outside our knowledge, so the definition of a miracle to some is; ‘something that is outside our knowledge’. This would be the view of an Atheist, that a miracle is merely no more than an undiscovered natural law.
A Christian interpretation of a miracle may be that it is an act of great power in which God used the Holy Spirit to heal or give hope to those in need. To Christians miracles are seen as revelations of God’s will and they teach people something about God.
We could even see something like a patient with cancer who recovers as a miracle. Some can say having the technology to save lives is a miracle because to some giving life is miraculous. But then the people amongst us that believe in coincidence may say “What about all the people who weren’t healed, why didn’t God carry out a miracle on them?”
Some people can see miracles as simply everyday events such as marriage seeing as they are enjoyable and spectacular.
Our existence is a miracle too some, we can’t explain why we are here but the universe including Earth and life is spectacular so to me anything that is spectacular is miraculous.
People can, in other words, interpret miracles in different ways, a divine interpretation or just something unusual that happened which they have not seen before. Things that can’t be explained by science are sometimes seen as a miracle.