Hello ruwth . Thank you for entering this month's contest.

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Grill a Christian  (13+) A writing contest exploring life, the universe, and God. Christian moderation-all welcome. #2327636 by LightinMind

As the official Judge of this contest, I have the following comments to offer for "ruwth is writing..." "--Am I A Miracle Or An Accident?--" 

Did you answer the question?

You believe that you are a miracle and that God guided the process by which you came to be.

Use of quotes, proof-texting or AI - could I hear your voice?

You referenced Og Mandino's Greatest Miracle in the World and various bible verses were implicit in your words. These were integrated into an argument with a clear voice.

How consistent was your argument?

Your response was a little short. In looking for your origins you thought about your parents and the fertilization of the egg that grew into you. You saw this as a material process and the only miracle referred to is the victory of the sperm, in a crowd of competitors, that God guided to the finish line first. This then also included a review of how the generations that preceded you met and you asked how God might have guided that process. So you did not seem so clear that the material path you defined could be thought of as a miracle or a natural process and this pushed you into a discussion of free will versus determinism. You resolved this by suggesting that God both planned and actively guided the process.

My thoughts on the substance of what you said

When I posed this question I was thinking more on the macro level but actually, your focus on conception and genealogy was an obvious response to it. On this level it seems an entirely natural process at first glance with people meeting, falling in love, birthing children, and voila we have a ruwth. Even if we consider the injection of your soul at the moment of conception to have been a Divine intervention in a sense that is a natural process also (although on a higher level than materialists may understand) since every child is born with a soul.

Maybe I should have asked people to define miracles. Most regard anything supernatural as miraculous, anything that breaks observable natural laws. Ultimately all creation is a miracle created from nothing by God. Your design is superb but is it a miracle in the same sense that the immaculate conception and virgin birth were miracles? How God guided a particular sperm or person are mysterious and unknowable.

I believe that the miracle of your life is that you can know God for eternity, that you can create and love and think in ways that no animal can. You can reach beyond the mundane and to the Divine and that makes your life miraculous. It is the fact of your salvation and the glorious future you will enjoy with God. So also I believe that you as with most Christians can point to specific moments in your life when God intervened and radically different outcomes resulted.

Mechanical issues

The egg did not likely have any competition [,] but the sperm did.

Did He choose the sperm that would win that race [,] or was the victor just lucky


Thanks again for entering.
LightinMind

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