I’m always bothered when Christians speak of God “healing” someone through surgery, or when they call something a “miracle” that does not clearly bear the marks of supernatural intervention. While we should ultimately thank God for all good things, if a surgeon fixes your body, then it was not a divine healing–it was a medical healing.
We should thank God for giving the doctors the knowledge and wisdom to fix our body, but to attribute the healing to divine intervention cheapens the Biblical concepts of divine healing and miracles. When God performs a healing, surgeries are not necessary. When God does a miracle, His direct involvement will be obvious because the outcome will defy a naturalistic explanation. Did your headache go away? Great, thank God for it. But if you popped an Aspirin at the same time you prayed for the headache to go away, you should probably be buying shares in pharmaceutical companies rather than telling people God healed your headache.
Thinking to Believe 
September 6, 2012 at 4:26 pm
I too understand your concern over counting something as a miracle that was not a divine miracle. Miracles from God require no human intervention and when humans are involved, we generally have a tendency to add only chaos and confusion.
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October 14, 2021 at 4:30 am
This is saying exactly what I have been thinking/feeling/understanding for a long time. When I mention this very thought to someone who has misused the word miracle, they look at me like I have two heads. Then they proceed to tell me “it’s a miracle to them” because God “answered” their prayer. Methinks many “misuse” so many of God’s precious attributes to fix their humanistic idea of God. It’s not good to lower the God of the universe to our level…He is so much greater than anything we could ever imagine.
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