Hume Miracles Analysis

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Hume has used personal views about the people’s knowledge of the matters of fact to reject their beliefs in the existence of miracle. According to Hume, a miracle can be defined in three ways. First, a miracle is an event with the religious significance; secondly, it is an event caused by God, and finally, it is an event that is not in accordance or an event that violates the laws of nature, and God causes it. The first definition appeals that people do talk about the events as miracles even when the event does not contradict the laws of nature (McCall, Bradford). Nevertheless, despite the fact that an event has some religious significance, or has a matter of subjective interpretation, an event qualifies to be a miracle for an individual and …show more content…

Hume states that the uneducated people believe in miracles. This is to mean that stories are being exaggerated in the human nature to look like miracles. Besides, he adds that miracles only happen to the ignorant people and the barbarous individuals. In his argument, he states that if we look at the histories of many countries, the earliest histories are based on big visions and miracles. However, it has been seen that, as the countries develop, and the people became more civilized and educated, the kinds of stories given on the miracles and visions disappear. This argument is true, for instance, if we can look at the newspapers that are written in the 21st century, they do not report on the many cases of miracles happening in the world today (Larmer). Additionally, Hume argued that the miracles happening in different religions that exist in the world today contradict each other. Different religions prove that miracles have been used to prove the validity of their religion. The value of their statement can, however, be invalidated by the fact that all religions claim that miracles that happen within their religion are a confirmation of the validity of their

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