The difficulties of cross cultural communication.

[edhopper]

78. Well

if we want to say he was just blathering something at the time because of the intense emotional situation. That he didn't really mean God did the impossible and directly saved him. That in the cool light of day he would say, "I am just happy to be unhurt and am just grateful, I know I said some wacky thing about a divine miracle, but it was the just the emotions talking." Then what he said could be dismissed. But I am taking it at face value and questioning the implications.
And in the end it doesn't matter what this one man really was thinking, because this type of statement is made often by people, you showed an illustration of it yourself.
So logically looking at such a statement seems apropos. Using this story to look at the idea of God directly intervening in the lives of some, while allow others to suffer is a big question.