Thank you ! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving too ! !<| sep |> Let me address your points then add a few comments at the end . I put some time into this so I ' d really appreciate it if you actually read it . Cheers . 1 . Rare , but it happens . Even if only 1 in 100 , 000 people survive that sort of injury , it is well within the realm of possibility that it happens to some people . 2 . Was his hand bleeding after being shot ? If yes , then his blood vessels were not unharmed . I understand that upon looking at his hand he may have seen a couple blood vessels , ligaments , andor tendons framing the hole , but to say that the entire natural order of the universe was suspended in order to keep a blood vessel intact is quite ridiculous . 3 . How can you even claim this happened ? You say he was laying on the ground when he was shot in the stomach . You also say that one of the bullets ended up in the ceiling . How do you know that it was the same bullet that was shot into his stomach which ended up in the ceiling ? If there were that many shots how did he keep track of which one ' s went where after being shot ? Couldn ' t one have been shot directly into the ceiling beforeafter ? Even if it was somehow known that it was the bullet from when he was shot in the stomach , what ' s to say that it didn ' t ricochet off the floor under him which wouldn ' t necessitate an exit wound or ricochet off bone very common ? There are far too many possibilities to naturally explain how this all happened to jump to God did it it ' s a miracle . Also , and very importantly you weren ' t there , you didn ' t personally witness any of this . You are basing this whole miracle and suspension of the natural order of the universe off of a story that a 15 year old relayed to others after a traumatic event . Witness testimony is proven to be incredibly unreliable , add on top of that someone who is young , and experiencing trauma , and you ' ve got little hope of salvaging an accurate portrayal of what happened . This is not opinion , but factual based on the way human brains work under various conditions . I totally get describing his survival as incredibly lucky or improbable but not a miracle because there are far too many opportunities for inaccuracy and embellishment to creep into the story for it to be taken at face value . On top of that all the miraculous things are within the realm of possibility anyway as I described above . Then you have to ask yourself why would God care enough to do all these ridiculous miracles to one 15 yo boy , but not stop the holocaust , not stop 911 , not intervene in the vast majority of cases where miracles are needed more ? I fully anticipate that people of faith will answer God works in mysterious ways and that will really only demonstrate their willingness to remain ignorant and they will use this nonmiracle to bolster their errantfaith .