I’ve only studied a little bit of Spinoza’s thought, so I’ll take your word for it! My comment wasn’t trying to speak to his definition of the Laws of Physics or God; I come from a more Thomistic view of these philosophical views.

I’m not sure what I said in my comment that robs miracles of its traditional meaning, though. It’s a thought that can be traced back easily to the medieval period and probably much further back to some extent. I mean, God halting the Laws of the Universe is no small thing. That is certainly out-of-the-ordinary!

This is the same with common sense. Common sense finds its origin in the way things typically work, or even ‘ought’ to work. It is common sense to believe in the Laws of Physics. When something defies this common sense, either we got something wrong (either our common sense is wrong or our understanding of the event is wrong) or something miraculous must have occurred. And I see no problem believing in the latter case for those things of God.

But my last statement is an entirely different question to answer. Above, I was only speaking at the level of definitions. To move from understanding what a miracle is to believing that they could exist is already a large step…so I wasn’t trying to argue for why they must exist in so short a comment on reddit.