MORE Evidence Miracles Still Happen Today
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- One of the main reasons biblical scholars question the Gospels as historical accounts is their inclusion of miracles. However, what if I told you there's compelling evidence that supernatural events have continued since Jesus's time on earth? In my last video, I explored three fascinating case studies of scientifically inexplicable healings that occurred in the context of prayer and divine revelation. In this video, I look at four more powerful case studies that point to Jesus being still alive today.
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Reasonable Responses to the Last Two Miracle Videos
- These stories are pretty fascinating, and I’m not about to say these people are lying, because these events clearly mean a lot to them. While I’m not planning to become a Christian or even a theist over this, it does make me wonder if naturalism might not explain everything.
- There’s a lot of evil and suffering in the world, and while these stories could support Christian theism, the sheer amount of pain and suffering out there makes atheism seem more convincing to me. It’s a tough call, but I lean toward the evidence of a world full of suffering.
Unreasonable Responses
- Well, sometimes people just get lucky. (Seriously, in the context of prayer and hearing a divine voice? That’s way too dismissive of what these people experienced.)
- Science will eventually explain how these things happened. (Come on, the more we understand modern science, the more we see that some things just don’t fit neatly into the scientific box.)
- Everyone involved in these stories must be lying. (Calling people liars without any direct proof just because they claim a miracle? That’s pretty harsh and close-minded.)
- Until miracles can be repeatedly tested in a lab, I’ll never believe. (Miracles already have significant evidence in favor of theism, and they fit well within the context of Christianity. Expecting them to follow natural laws like a science experiment misses the point that divine actions aren’t bound by those rules.)
I’ll be talking about miracles and the problem of evil in an upcoming video, so stay tuned!
Are those real comments , or just some examples you made up?
@@edisonchin2463 they read like generalizations of some of the sentiments I’ve seen
@@edisonchin2463 you literally just did it lmao
Until Caesar's assassination can be repeatedly tested in a lab, I'll never believe
@@BigMan-xz3rm when ? Which?
I was healed last November. I’ve been in a wheelchair for 10 years from a spinal cord disease. About early September I surrendered to Jesus Christ. I started fervently studying the Bible and praying every day and then on November 19th at about 11pm I just suddenly got out of my wheelchair and started walking! I’ve been walking ever since and even drive a car now. Now I am currently planning to enter the workforce and go off of SSDI.
God Bless you, Glory to God!
Feel free to email me more details if you are willing to share. Just go to my about page.
Praise God!
The only thing I wish was here were pictures of these individuals being sick and healed later. I'm sure medical examinations would have gotten such irrefutable evidence.
@@ethanwild3301at this point do you really need pictures? The point of all of these are that they were medically documented prior to the healing and medical documented to have been healed.
He has another video where the guy had to go off disability and even had the paperwork clearing him of fraud by the government investigation. On top of the medical paper work. If that isn’t proof enough then a picture will be explained away as well.
Greetings froms Colombia. My Grandma had osteoporosis for 20 years and God healed her in less than a month. she used to have to use a walking stick. We are Catholic and very thankfuls
She wasn't healed instantly?
less than a month? God is instant.
@@donhaddix3770I'd say He works as He wishes. And we must be humble enough to accept it. You don't prescribe or "allow" Him how to work.
You are confusing the criteria set forth by a man (to which others may agree or disagree), by which he says we could recognize a miracle beyond any shadow of a doubt, being very restrictive, with God being free to exercise His will to work as He pleases. For which there is Scriptural basis.
In fact, I recall a certain blind man who has experienced gradual healing at the hands of Christ.
Others while they walking towards the temple to show themselves to the priest.
And you can say: "But it didn't take a week", to which I can reply that it wasn't instant, either.
This criteria, and I know where you are quoting it from, is artificially limiting. No one can point at a verse by where God chooses to limit Himself to a certain way of working.
And as anyone that walked with God cab confirm...we don't put rules on Him; it's the other way around.
Let's say, God heales someone of Alopecia Areata. Would gou be so kind to allow those follicles to produce hair, or would a bald person need to have flowing locks the next day to accept the healing?
Are you saying that when Christ fed the multitudes, just because tgere wasn't suddenly a mountain of food, that would not qualify as a miracle?
@@szilardfineascovasa6144 never a gradual healing in the bible.
when Christ fed the multitudes the basket was always full, no gradual refilling.
if God restored hair, it would be instant. that would be for vanity.
@@donhaddix3770 I just provided you examples of gradual healing from the Bible. That you chose to ignore. Mark 8:22-26 not in your Bible, Don?
What exactly would block God from healing gradually? Don Haddix's opinion? Who is Don Haddix, again - God's appointed advisor? 😆
Or he is rather one of those know-it-alls, that would've been one of the Pharisees scolding Christ for how he chose to gradually heal the blind man?
So a follicle able to grow hair is not a healed follicle?
So the only healings that Christ performed were all written in the Bible, even though we have a verse that says most of what He dis wasn't written?
I think someone needs to have a lower opinion about themselves, read their Bible, and a higher opinion of God 🙂.
Hey if you guys would be okay with it, please, even just one prayer would be amazing. I've been struggling with a disease known as CIDP. Over the past year I've actually started becoming a proper Christian and coming to truly know Him. I know that when it's His time, that I will be healed, but please pray for me. I've been struggling even finding means of getting my ivig, struggling with my living conditions, etc. If I were to be healed of my disease, I could finally go back to living again and not stuck in the rough position I'm in. Thank you ahead of time any and all who see this and decide to pray for me.
I have just prayed for you. God bless you.
I've prayed for your healing, brother. I've also prayed that if He doesn't, that he'll reveal His plan for your pain, so you may know how to glorify Him through it. God bless you!
I've had a chronic illness since I was 12. It heavily impacts my life and productivity. I've prayed to God many a time to be healed but I have come to accept that I am not entitled to healing, and God knows best. I'll be healed in His good time, whether on this Earth, or on the New Earth, in this body or the perfect redeemed body. Nevertheless, please pray for my healing. I'm so tired of being tired. May God's perfect will be done in my life as well as yours.
You're in my prayers, mate!
I’ve prayed for you, may God bless you. Greater things will be done in your life in Jesus’ name.
The atheists act like if they saw the evidence for miraculous healing, they would believe it.
Pretty sure you'll convert more than half of us at least. If you do have the evidence that is.
@@edisonchin2463 I guarantee you guys would still not convert even if it happened in front of your own eyes.
@@voltekthecyborg7898 ever seen a magic trick or an optical illusion? Even the eye can be deceiving.
@@edisonchin2463 it's not even hard to find medical records, MEDICAL RECORDS
of a MIRACLE HEALING
As long as you don't believe all of these people lied along with doctors and people in hospital and they are terrible source of information about this topic,
then i don't know
"we don't know yet!!"
What?
I doubt we will ever explain how people, pernamently ill magically are now cured after attending church and getting prayed for
mhm, i can't wait for science to explain WHY it happened. Not "how" - doesn't prove anything, if it explains the process that this person went through then obviously it's not an proof or disproof for it being related to prayer
So next time, walking down the street and you would see someone healing an blind person (you can't see the medical record or anything as of right now)
What would you do?
@@edisonchin2463 You say that, but then when it happens, you'll dismiss it as if the evidence was made up.
I had a miracle happen to me in 2006 when I was 1 years old. Tv fell from a shelf to my head. I fell to the ground the tv luckily didn’t shatter. I was taken to the hospital in critical condition. I had suffered 3 fractures in my skull. I was also paralyzed completely on my left side. After 24 days in the hospital and hundreds of congregations across Oklahoma praying for my recovery, I was able to walk out of the hospital. Also forgot to mention that the fractures were completely healed. I have no viable scars or brain damage. In fact the doctor who checked me out of the hospital said you’re completely normal even in fact a bit more mentally advanced than an infant of the same age. Since I’m 19 years old now I was able to get my papers from the hospital and they are proof that God is faithful to those who are faithful to him.
Thats not a miracle, thats medical intervention, you dolt.
So when will you be getting your doctorate? Its not enough that you should be healed for a day, but you have to seize the means of production and wallow like a pig in the throws of Safety. Because that is what Dotards do they kick the ladder out for others. Philosophical Zombies are among us and they refuse to bury their dead offline. You can always heal the body, but the mind is never willing because they do it to themself.
Is it crazy to suggest that the recovery should be attributed to the doctor and nurses at the hospital rather than some magical entity, that for whatever reason decided that it was just and good to let a TV fall on an infant
God didn't drop a TV on him.
A bigger miracle would have been if the tv didn't fall on your head.
Why do people think being in a car accident or having a tv fall on their head is a miracle?
Thanks for showing testimonies from different christian backgrounds. It has helped solidify that while denominations and christian branches disagree and are doctrinaly opposed in some aspects, God sees us all the same. People looking for an earnest relationship with him.
God loves us all that's why this petty arguing must stop
If it's no a hersey stop pooping on people😅
Amen!
Depends. You MUST know the true character and personage of God otherwise you’re praying to an idol you created.
@@AR15andGOD Definitely, God himself is the only that can heal and save, so it's only to him that worship and adoration should be directed.
I was mostly reffering to arguments I've heard, were people say that: "my denomination/christian branch is the clear superior one", but if you keep the tenants of faith and don't add anything the bible clearly doesn't condone or remove things, then there's no reason to argue who is better (not saying debates are bad, but people seriously get heated on minutia somtimes).
Doctrinal differences aside, what He expects from us is that we keep His word and comes to Him with a sincere and humble heart.
@@AR15andGOD It depends... You might think someone else isn't praying or talking about the same God you are talking about... But remember Plato's shadows in the cave... You could be seeing an outline of God instead of the fullness... God is an infinite diamond who asks each of us to polish a facet of Him in our life... We all see the same God, yet differently...
False religions give religion a bad name.
I mean... Unless you call them a cult.
Otherwise, religion is religion.
@@edisonchin2463
No, religion is not religion. They are all very different..
Even some "followers" of true religion give the true religion a bad name. People just need to remember that religion doesn't corrupt people. People corrupt religion.
@@edisonchin2463 they are cults or con men.
@@sliglusamelius8578 do you care to elaborate? Coz that is the same as saying humans are not humans , we have different skin tones and culture.
"Why doesn't God heal amputees?"
"He does. Here's Bruce Van Natta."
"Intestines don't count."
🙄
Organ damage and loss of limbs are nowhere near comparable. Different cells, different structures, completely different.
But please continue to be dishonest in order to protect your delusions.
@@hunterhall1575 The differences in anatomy of the different parts which are damaged is completely irrelevant to the fact that they absolutely, 100% should have died, yet they did not. The idea that intestines don't count is moving goalposts and showing that you have no idea what you're talking about
@@hunterhall1575”organ damage”?????? he had 500cm of intesines lost… 7% of the natural ileum length left, and you call that “organ damage”, - its not organ damage, it’s literally losing most of your digestive system. Easily comparable to limb loss. You’re not a skeptic, you’re in-denial
@@Bomblaggg Damage: physical harm caused to something in such a way as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function.
Yup, sounds like damage to an organ to me! Try again with a little more thought and allot less emotion.
@@Bomblaggg Either way, dont bring me semantic bullshit just because you're objectively incorrect. Especially if you're going to be wrong AGAIN. Growing new organ tissue (which happens all the fucking time, btw) is STILL not the same as losing a limb. You made the false equivocation and you need to be honest enough to accept that it was a fallacy to do so.
The story about the man feeling an electric "jolt" in his intestine after praying reminds me of a similar experience I had, though mine was much more of a minor miracle. I was laying in bed, late at night and hungry, the hunger pangs made it difficult to sleep, but I knew that if I got up to eat something, it would cause me to get less sleep and could end up causing indigestion, so while in the middle of a usual nightly prayer, I decided to say that Christ was the only food I needed and asked him to take away the hunger pain, and before the thought was finished, I felt that "electric jolt" sensation in my gut and the pain was suddenly gone, even when I tried looking for the pain, I couldn't seem to find any evidence that I was still hungry.
I remember one time I prayed with my girlfriend, who had a headache, and when I was done praying, her headache was gone.
@@jacobpotts7954 I also notice that prayer helps ease stress and headaches too, I think there was some study done a while back that showed that praying is a very therapeutic practice and can ease things like this, which may or may not be a natural phenomenon, as similar psychological disciplines have the same effect, but I still find it very interesting.
@mateofamate1387 I had a similar experience except while I was fasting and I was so hungry and eveytime I prayed that God sustain me the hunger would go away.
xDD this is a really funny story. Sometimes i wish i could eat more, but dont gain any more weight xD.......and even tho i gain, I dont care xD
Something similar to this happened to me except I didn't even pray I need to appreciate God more. Miracles still happen even if they're not life changing like curing blindness
My miracle does not fit the criteria of CURED but I would still like to share it. I’ve had issues with my right foot cramping all my life. I injured my foot as a kid which ended up messing with some bone (and theoretically some nerves) and since then I could barely bend it without it cramping up for anywhere between a few seconds and a few minutes. It was painful as this wasn’t a normal cramp. It felt as if muscle and bone were being rearranged (of course it wasn’t). About a month ago I found myself praying in my room. I was listening to my Bible app and through my headphones and silent prayers I heard God Himself say, “stop”. I instantly froze and stopped. A few seconds passed by and as I began questioning if I had truly heard God or not I heard Him again say, “I shall heal your foot. It will not cramp anymore.” His voice was so clear and loud and also soothing and loving. I felt a fire sensation in my right foot at that moment. It felt like fire and for the last time it cramped. The worst cramp it had ever had and then just like that, the fire and cramp stopped. And ever since then it has not done it ever again. I can bend and flex it and not have to worry about it cramping again. I had sort of always doubted miracles, mostly due to mega churches using false miracles for money and fame purposes. However, I know see what I have always known: through Christ, anything is possible
When we ourselves experience a miracle it is no longer deniable
My dad had 5 pneumothoraxes in his left lung and recovered with a brand new lung after asking for healing from Jesus. Lungs that have had pneumothoraxes usually don't retain their conical shape. However, after praying several times following each pneumothorax, his lung recovered completely. The blow test showed performance equivalent to that of a new lung, and the lung regained its conical shape. The doctor said that the latest studies on his lung showed no signs of ever having had a pneumothorax.
Nice!
Man that story of Barbara was incredible.
Last year (2023) there were world youth days in Lisabon (Potugal) and a blind girl was healed durning a final holy mass with the Pope Francis.
God is real and he's just as present in his church as he ever was.
I believe to be healed too by God. I suffered a severe burnout during covid that lasted for years and just didnt get any better. I found God back in my life. I dont think i asked for a miracle, only for wisdom and to thank Him for what was granted to me everyday. But somehow very suddenly something felt different. Barriers disappeared and perhaps within a month i went from being to mentally damaged to endure city life for an hour or so into working full time. It transformed my life drastically.
Awesome, praise God. 💞
I've witnessed a few extreme miracles like the instantaneous healing of paralyzed, deaf and blind people. I once prayed for a young man whom the doctors declared dead 12 hours prior to his instant healing. My favorite was when I prayed for a blind girl who had no pupils or irises and instantly got pupils and irises and could see. I witnessed it right before my eyes! God is good!
❤
I’d love to hear more about some of these if possible
@@TheBanjoShowOfficial I've been regrettably too busy to upload more testimonies of my own but some are there if you care to see them. Blessings!
Hello, I hope you are well! Do you have a video in which this type of healing has occurred, that you can show me please. Can you go to scientists so as to reproduce this act? I want to know if this is actually real. Can you at least pray for me? Thanks.
Wow, you must be working in the medical field or something to have witnessed a few miracles in your life.
Loving this series so far Erik!
GOD IS GREAT!!!
And Jesus Christ is God.
You should make a video using C. U. R. E. D. to disprove miracles in other religions then compare them to some Christian miracles
Good idea
Miracles from other religions too? You don't say? Interesting.
Having your mind made up before you go out looking to apply the criteria you contrived doesn’t make a convincing argument to non believers.
I was healed if migraines, had daily migraines was under treatment only from gp and then was healed when a mate prayed never had one again, was fantastic
It was about the 10th time someone prayed and it made such a difference.
I used to get monthly migraines, then it became weekly then after covid i had daily (29 out of 30/31 days) had it for 4 months and was healed!! The lord is good
My unborn niece was diagnosed with anencephaly about two weeks ago, which in the shortest way possible means she would die within hours, if not minutes, of being born. However, a woman at my sister's church, prompted by the Holy Spirit, told her and her husband to buy a dress for a baby girl, praying healing over her and knowing there's victory. As far as I'm aware, that lady shouldn't have even known that the baby is a girl, let alone that something was wrong.
I'm excited to see it come about, and I'm believing that no matter what, God will be glorified.
My grandfather was born with polio in 1945. He was not at all expected to survive and doctors essentially told my great grandparents he was going to pass soon. Despite this he lived. He then continued to live for 79 happy years. He was married for more than 50 years and passed peacefully just a month and a half ago after defying all odds. He had heart problems for many years in his later life, but his polio had been cured. It still affected him in certain ways developmentally (he had different sized feet for example), but he was not paralyzed and it was never again life threatening. God does indeed work miracles and my Grandfather made sure he never let us attribute it to anything but God working through the prayers of his Father’s church. He lived a life for the Lord giving generously and even had us deny donations when he passed saying all money should go to charities he handpicked before passing. Even if it was not the work of God that healed my Grandfather the simple belief that it was made him grow a holy and wondrous man. I do indeed believe it was God’s healing, but even if it wasn’t I would praise God all the same seeing the good it made my grandfather do.
“There is no proof there is no proof”
The doctors:
Government records:
Everyone present:
🤦
Nobody is questioning that the person miraculously got better, we can all see that. What I wonder is why they got better. How can you prove it was god who did it? How can you prove it was outside of physical possibility?
@@landonmillsap3414 Did you not watch the video? The doctor of the board literally she said was hopeless, she would die and she wouldn't be revived because it would only prolong her death. It was outside physical possibility because the people around were going to let her die. If it was within physical possibility, they would have done it. Which makes it a miracle. And if you literally just watch the video, and from the records, the medical records of all the cases, the doctors couldn't explain how it was possible. A man lost 93 percent of his ileum and it grew back, even you know that's not physically possible and it was recorded that he did lose it. There's no current medical technology capable of regenerating human beings which obviously leads to the conclusion that Such a case was outside of physical possibility and it's miraculous which means there was divine intervention which means God(Use capital letter G don't be disrespectful it won't hurt you if yiu to do it) did it.
@@landonmillsap3414 yet i know even after all I've said you still won't believe because that's how all you atheists are. Some are better than worse and some will convert back to Christianity, yet the majority of you will just ignore the facts. Isn't your entire belief system based on facts? If you look at the evidence you can clearly see it was done by God and no man could help them
I’ve seen the sick healed in Jesus’ name right here in the United States of America. Jesus is the God who heals the sick! I am actually a former atheist who used to have the same mindset which you have refuted. Now I am a believer in our supernatural faith.
God still does heal,but only according to His will. We can humbly ask Him for healing,but He is the one who gives or withholds it.
We cannot demand God to heal us,we beg and ask for it.
Also important to remember that God's work was showcased by Jesus, God will hardly make a miracle in our lives if we're lacking faith that He will do it
Agreed. God is not a genie
Key is to worship Him regardless if he does the miracle or not.
Jesus is the only way. Be healed in Jesus name.
"NoNe oF tHiS iS eViDenCE!!!!" - OK then, what is evidence?
What evidene will you accept as proof of a miracle?
If you say "it needs to be repeatable" I'm not going to respond, and you need to go sit in a quiet place for a while until you see the problem with that for yourself.
?
If you think about the atheist position it is clear why they do this.
In the atheist worldview any and all evidence that points to the supernatural must be dismissed because the instant they recognize a supernatural occurrence the entire worldview falls apart.
I already believe in Jesus and all that, I believe it can maybe happen, the evidence I would need to think this kind of miraculous healing still happens is simply to see it in person for myself.
That's what would convince me. Someone I know or even myself, with some kind of ailment, being completely healed from prayer. From something big and obviously without medication.
Now my dad has dystonia, im sure many have prayed for his healing, but he can only live a relatively normal life after a boatload of medication, so you know...
I know God has a plan and all and im not really asking why, im more just saying... That would convince me. My dad wakes up one morning after praying, decides he no longer needs any of his meds, and miraculously manages to go without any withdrawal symptoms or anything.
Course it would be a bit more convincing had such a healing happened you know... about 15-20 years ago. But whatever. You asked for my terms, that's what im setting up for ya.
@@Yipper64 do you believe Jesus rose from the dead and performed miracles during His ministry?
@@bc4yt As the bible says yeah.
The bible also continuously warns against false prophets and false signs and wonders.
"I know Mr Smith is not the murderer"
"Well here are proofs that confirm he is"
"Those proofs don't count, they are false"
"How do you know?"
"Because I don't believe he is guilty"
Atheism in a nutshell
Eastern/Greek Orthodox here. Wanted to share a story that falls under the "C.U.R.E.D" Criteria, and it's pretty recent too. So there was this guy in Germany that had an illness, and it was worsening, so he prayed to St Luke of Simferopol for divine intercession, and after the day he prayed, lo and behold, the doctors told him that he was cured with no explanation and that he's free to go, I suggest you look it up because this is an extreme oversimplification of the miracle, thanks for listening!
Hello there fellow greek man
What of the Christians who don’t believe in the intercession of saints?
Christian here*
@@dingdingdingding5544Intercession of the saints is basically asking a saint to pray for you, it’s like asking church members to pray for you.
Jesus is the mediator between humans and the holy father, he connects us to him, saints in the other hand, they intercede for you.
@@user-hu6dx9ib9v I believe in asking saints to pray for you. While they are still alive to pray. ;-)
My great grandfather was a preacher who had the gift of healing. The God of the Bible is real.
You can always say the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
@@jellyface401 But then y ou r atheist brain will purposefully misinterpret that as the god mus lims say is true. Because y ou respect mus lims because they'll mur der y ou if y ou don't/
Which would be Jesus @@jellyface401
So how many people did he harm or kill? That u never knew about
@@tennicksalvarez9079 what?
Thank you for this series, it strengths my faith as I am praying for a miracle too.
What are you praying for if you don’t mind my asking? I will pray for you as well 🙏🏻✝️
I had an experience not that long ago. I didn’t HEAR God’s voice exactly as much as I felt it. It was such a deep affirmation of faith, and all I could think of was this:
“Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.””
John 20:29 NRSV-CI
My sister was completely healed from lactose intolerance. It was before we got the test results back, so we went out and ate things with lots of lactose in it, and she was fine. Before that she would get nauseous. After we confirmed she was fine, the test results came back saying she did have lactose intolerance. She is fine today and drinks milk all the time, despite what the doctor said.
Lactose intolerance is not a disorder. Itʼs the normal condition for most adult mammals (humans included).
@@Crich_Leslie "This DISORDER is passed from generation to generation..."
-Mayo Clinic
Sources also say this CONDITION can't be cured.
@@Jesus123ioasdjfkasjfkjlasdfask
Modern medical sources inform us that the persistent ability to digest lactose in adults is a minority condition worldwide, and results from the loss or failure of the normal control factor that gradually shuts off lactase production as a person grows up. [Lactase - the enzyme that digests lactose.]
Lactase persistence may not be recognized as an anomaly because adult milk-drinking is culturally widespread, but lactose intolerance is physiologically & statistically normal for adults. Labeling it a disorder is behind the times.
@@Crich_LeslieLabeled as a disorder by the mayo clinic
Last year I was sooooo depressed 😭😭😭!!! I had voices in my head telling me to end my life, that im ugly, worthless, the whole nine yards!!!!!!! Ive lived with this for decades and i just thought it was normal! That everyone gets these intrusive thoughts. I thought i just had to think more positively, which I tried so hard to do but it didnt work.
When I met Jesus & made Him King of my life, it's like the Holy Spirit just kicked out all the demons that were living inside me & torturing me to death 😭!!! It's been nearly a whole year since this happened and I havent had a single thought like that in this whole time and that is nothing short of a miracle 😭
Firstly, there is a difference between scientifically impossible and scientifically unexplainable.
That does make sense. Are you saying that none of these miracles are scientifically impossible, rather just scientifically unexplainable? Even the guy whose small intestine manifested extra length? Do you suppose it stretched rather than grew?
@@Yipper64 Interesting when you do an internet search for these people they only turn up on religious websites or places selling their book, books with titles like "Prayer healed me" or "Jesus healed me"
Strange they are on none of the medical sites that deal with unusual medical cases.
@@Yipper64Van Nattas intestines never grew back to their original proportions. What was out of the ordinary for his recovery was how his body was able to compensate with such a truncated small intestine. So many severe trauma cases can come down to whether your body has the strength to pull through those injuries after medical intervention.
This is scientifically impossible in terms of natural science. However, this is only explainable by the scientific laws of the super natural realm where God exists.
@@mirandahotspring4019so basically they're biased and so therefore are all lying despite medical documentation, multiple attestation etc. What evidence do you have for deception besides just people claiming a miracle happened. Do you always accuse people of lying without evidence for stuff that doesn't fit your prior beliefs?
I've shared this story before on one of your videos, but God's miracles are always worth repeating so I hope you'll excuse the repetition.
I was in a car accident 11 years ago which resulted in the separation of my shoulder. Tendons and ligaments were snapped and unlike muscle and bone those don't knit back together, they require surgery to fix. I didn't get surgery and for years my shoulder would occasionally pop out of the joint causing severe pain. One night I was in such extreme pain that I couldn't sleep. I had read Mark 11:24 that evening before bed so I began praying in the manner prescribed and no sooner had my prayer ended than I felt my shoulder pop itself back into place and a warmth spread throughout the joint. I knew instantly that God had healed my shoulder and that I would never have a problem with it again. Years later, my shoulder is still in perfect condition.
This is so beautiful! Truly made my morning! Thank you for sharing :)
We need to spend more time sharing testimonies in the church. It truly empowers our faith.
I’m doing a college assignment on miracles and their impact on society. My extremely liberal professor doesn’t believe in them. Perhaps I should use this video as a reference for my project!
@@MeekCatholic You should use the references in this video for your project
I’m in a wheelchair and I know that Jesus is going to save me. I’ll finish the Bible by winter and I pray 15 decade rosary everyday…. PLEASE PRAY FOR MY PURSUIT OF GOD AND MY PATIENCE
Pray to God.
Fall away from roman catholicism it only serves to keep you away from a personal relationship with God which he wants.
You can pray directly to God and he will listen no imbetweeners.
You got this brother.
I'm praying to you
@@mnrsteeljoutafel
"No inbetweeners"
"I'm praying to [sic - assume you mean "for"] you"
Pick one.
Christ is my brother. Mary is my mother. Catholicism keeping people from a personal relationship with Jesus is a lie of the devil.
Brother…put the rosary down, it’s at best, unnecessary. God hears you! God is with you! Wherever/whenever!
@@achildr1 The rosary is a daily meditation on one of four sets of five events of the Gospels. Why would I give up doing that? How would it bring me closer to God?
@@achildr1 do you ask others to pray for you?
Jesus healed me of gastritis! After a month of no medication working a few friends prayed over me at my Monday Christian surfers group. I was healed. Took a few times to pray the name of Jesus over me but the intense abdominal pain ceased. I could enjoy food again. Even dare eat spicy food. I eat what ever I want thanks to King Jesus. God is sooooooooooo good guys. If He is for us, then who can be against us? I still suffer in this life. My wife and I had a miscarriage a few weeks ago but I will never question God’s goodness. He has a plan for us all and we NEED to trust in His Son. I am not perfect but I will not stop getting up. I love you God. You are my best friend. Please let this encourage you guys. You are greatly loved. No one is ever too far from God’s forgiveness. All we need is to humble ourselves and call on the only one who can save. Jesus
Man I love these! Is there a way we can access the papers so we can provide them as evidence when presenting the case?
Need
1. Delores Winder's healing and the documentation behind it are found in Richard Casdorph's 1976 book The Miracles: A Doctor Says Yes.
2. Bruce van Natta's healing and records are produced in Joel Lantz's book Bridges for Honest Skeptics.
3. Chris Gunderson's case was published in Romez, Clarissa, David Zaritzky, and Joshua W. Brown. "Case Report of Gastroparesis Healing: 16 Years of a Chronic Syndrome Resolved After Proximal Intercessory Prayer." Complementary Therapies in Medicine 43 (2019): 289-294.
4. Barbara Snyder's doctor discussed her healing in Chapter 11 of the anthology by Scott Kolbaba entitled "Physician's Untold Stories."
In his livestream on this he shows his recommended resources.
Caleb is writing a very meticulously documented book on this topic and has been influential on my thinking of this topic, so listen to him.
@@calebjackson6277 Nice! Thank you!
I have 3 points of contention:
An outside observer has no way of confirming that any of these things actually happened.
If some of these did happen, we cant know for sure whether it came from God or from unknown medical phenomena.
Other religions also claim to have miracles.
Given the fact that the claims of the different religions of the world are not compatible, and yet people from all over the world claim that they have seen evidence of their own religion, the only thing I can conclude with certainty is that human testimony is unreliable.
2:05 Was that the fall of 73’?…the internet has ruined me.
@@tbonbrad I read this comment as he said it lmao
Not quite the same thing, but my grandfather was a heavy smoker all his life. The day he became a Christian, he got home from work and was surprised to find his cigar still in his pocket because he hadn't had the urge to smoke all day, and he never did again. He framed that cigar and put it on the mantlepiece as a reminder of God's redemption.
One time i saw an anti-theist say "why didn't God stop the Holocaust?!" (Typical instance of "i present the problem of evil AGAIN and drop my mic)
My response "it's still going on?!?!?"
I like that!
@@SeanWinters thank you!
Well, the problem is that it even started. I just dont like the way you guys have to put God behind everything that happened. What about the people that put the effort to stop it? Why cant we just stop here, leave it this way, and stop putting behind it things that are beyond us and by that dont even matter?
@@tomkycze2620 the question of why the holocaust even started is a much more fair presentation of the problem of evil. I still think that Christianity offers consistent answers to this but it's better than saying "why didn't God stop it?" But I think, to answer your other point, i think you were asking why Christians feel the need to offer God as an explanation. If I have misunderstood you please correct me.
But it's not that we are seeing things with a perfectly satisfying natural explanation and saying "yeah but I really want to say God did this!" rather we see a given event or phenomenon and genuinely think that it is in some sense God's doing. We think this because the Bible tells us that is how it is and we believe there are legitimate, good reasons to believe the Bible's claims of being from God.
@@4jgarner I was just saying: Why bother? Believing in things that we dont know that are true just sets apart a big group of people. Thats why is the theme of Religions being valid in general is so much talked about... People argue against each other, that their truth is the right one. They think, that people who believe and who dont are different. But we are not. We are all in the end just trying to find the answer, and we are fighting between two posibilites. We are trying to find the truth. But there is no way to prove any of those posibilites. But everyone will eventually find out. and because of that, why bother?
Thank you for showing this. Yes miracles still happen. I'm Catholic and we expect miracles to happen. I don't know where this idea that Jesus and Apostles only performed miracles because there was an important revelation but it's not limited to that.
My daughter was just a year old and her crib's side was let down. Because of this she fell about 3 to 4 feet down to the cement floor. Hearing her cry, my sister came to her and was surprised to see her on the floor. When I checked her out, there was no scratch, no sprain, no broken bones, no nothing. She was crying because I think she was surprised to be on the floor! We believe that our guardian angels protect us specially when we are babies, and we believe she was protected from harm there. Things could have ended badly and I thank God everyday for my little one.
Praise GOD!
Gods plan is so beautiful and mysterious.
I am a very skeptic Christian, I love God and believe he can do anything he wills, but I don’t want to be fooled and deceived.
My sister asked me what I thought about the gifts of the spirit still occurring today, I said I didn’t know.
That same day you released the video prior. I watched and still wasn’t convinced, then today while I myself am recovering from a cold I see this video.
God is Good.
I've never heard of these miracles!
astounding!!
There is most certainly a conspiracy to hide God from the people.
The satanists have been very busy....
Because if they became common knowledge Satan would start losing.
Look and ye shall find.
There's so many more amazing cases of these events
I have had a back injury (herniated discs), the doctor said the only option was for me to have surgery, and that surgery would have a pretty high chance of me becoming paralyzed. Well, I prayed every single day, and the lord promised that I would be made whole, and He fulfilled that promise to me, my back is nearly completely healed now.
But that’s not my only experience with miracles, when me and my mom were moving out of our apartment, she had an accident. She tripped halfway down the long stairs, and I was at the top of the stairs looking down, I couldn’t believe what I saw. She wasn’t falling down the stairs, she was floating! She floated down the stairs with arms outstretched, and when she made it to the bottom, the only injury she had was slightly scuffed up hands, but other than that, no broken bones or anything.
I thought it was just my mind being effected by adrenaline, that I had imagined her floating down like a feather... until she told me afterwards she felt as if she were being carried by invisible hands to safety.
There was no way to explain how that happened, no scientific explanation for what I had just witnessed, I saw my mother *defy gravity* with my own eyes. The only conclusion I had was that my mom was protected by something or someone unseen, in other words, guardian angels.
I have no doubt in my mind that if my mom wasn’t protected, she would’ve been very badly injured, or much much worse. The lord protected her, and for that I’m truly grateful.
I’m commenting in good faith and don’t want to come off as someone trying to derail what you’re doing here! But I feel like I should mention that Kathryn Kuhlman did not have a consistent record of healings and doesn’t represent the best example to point to. Dr William Nolan conducted follow-ups with 23 people who at one point claimed to have been cured during her ministry and found that they hadn’t actually been cured. One woman with spinal cancer who was commanded by Kuhlman to take off her brace and run across the stage suffered a collapsed spine the day after, and died four months later.
of course they ignore it
We're not claiming Kuhlman healed her, but the God that was being worshipped there. That's severely disingenuous. Christianity is a personal religion God-believer with no actual intermediary priest. Even tho Kuhlman wasn't acting with God, what matters to God is the faith of the believer, not of the preacher.
Kuhlman's actions don't have any impact in the evidence of the granny's healing.
I heard of a story about a young man who was being reckless and was riding his motorcycle on high speed, fell and had a lot of broken bones, once in hospital doctors were telling that there's no way his bones will be fixed (idk what bones exactly got broken), so the parents called their pastor and asked him to come to the hospital, and stay in prayer in the room. So that's what happened, they were praying for about an hour non stop. Suddenly the young man's pain went away, and he could move his either feet or hands slowly so the doctors decided to do x-rays, and bam their x-ray showed that his bones some were suddenly healed and some were slowly healing on their own, they all were in shock on how this could happen.
And another two miracles that didn't happen with someone else, but its happened to me and my mom, meaning its first pov encountering the miracle.
I was born 25 weeks, doctors said i won't talk, won't walk, i won't be able to even sit on my own, and that I'd die at 8 years old, but here I am alive and healthy at soon to be 20 years old. But it's not the main miracle, the miracle I want to share happened when I got discharged 4 months later from the hospital (i was in an incubator for 4 months) I was very weak, and I couldn't go to deep sleep because once I'd start sleeping my heart would stop (my mom had a separate special emergency number that the hospital already knew who was calling and what was happening since it happened that often) (my mom also didn't sleep since she had to keep me half awake always so I wouldn't die) and that was happening for another 4 months.
So once my parents called in our pastor to pray over me, the moment he prayed over me the blue color on my skin instantly went away (I had low oxygen always, since in hospital doctors had to forcefully open my lungs, thus my heart would stop cause I struggled breathing) and for the first time since I got discharged I was able to go to sleep and finally fully rest, since then my heart never stopped.
And another miracle happened to my mom, around 2014 my mom due to certain life events got a heart attack, she had a 3 or 4 centimeter heart rupture, doctors were telling her that the next day they'll do the heart surgery. But my mom was against the surgery so she mentally prayed and my dad prayed with her, once the doctors came the next day to check again before the surgery, the heart was healed and there was no sign of any rupture.
God allows certain life events to happen for His Glory to shine and speak through us about Him. To God be all the Glory and Praise!❤
I somehow slightly disagree with the last point. I think God can heal gradually
Yes, but this is for completely proving miracles to skeptics
I agree! Sometimes when the cause of a malady is removed, the body of the person receiving the prayer, will heal through "normal" ability. When I went to Romania with 3 others several years ago, the minister who invited me to come, pointed out a young Gypsy girl who was singing a praise song for the church we were visiting. He showed me a picture of the same girl taken on a previous visit he had made. The girl had been born with a terrible cleft palate. My friend had been asked to minister to her and simply removed generational curses from her. When I saw her, there was no evidence of the cleft palate and NO surgery had been performed.
Yes, many miraculous healings might "fail" a few of those points, but if they pass all those points they should be undeniably miraculous to honest sceptics
I think that that conscription is just for the doubt acronym. The point isn’t to say that God can’t, but rather that in instances that God did it may be better to leave them out because that gradual healing process could be a reason for doubt, as there is a chance that it was a different process that caused that healing to happen, even if it was most likely God. It’s really just so that there is zero room for denying that the miracle was in fact a miracle.
I agree with you, I think God can heal gradually, but I think the point of the criterion is not to say that God does not heal some people gradually, but that if he chooses to heal gradually, it will be harder to distinguish from natural recovery, and thus not as conclusively miraculous as sudden, complete healing
“Why doesn’t God do *X thing*?”
“He does. *Example*”
“NOOOO! NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡”
What about miracles that aren’t in response to faith or prayers? Why would God decided to miraculously heal those who have nothing to do with Christianity?
There are no well-evidenced miracle claims that support another religions. If you can find one that passes the filter, then please give me the details. I just addressed the problem of evil and miracles in my latest video.
God still protects humanity through mercy, His people still pray for blessings for nonbelievers, and He knows the hearts of those who don't know Him. Cups of the people that God pours His blessings into can still overfill and splash onto others
So i have Heard testimonies of healings on different things and usually i am skeptical of them, but others make me cry and i feel the Lord overwhelm me. I cried through out this video. Because i know these were real healing done to the glory of Christ Jesus. He is faithful in all things and he is worthy in all things. Glory and praise be to the God most high! Praise our King and Lord Jesus Christ
Thank you!
My pastor has a niece who got half of her brain removed because of a tumor. She was in elementary school about 6 years ago but I'm sure she's doing fine!
Where are the sceptics and anti-theists watching this video about miraculous healings and then these same sceptics give us unreasonable arguments for why these healings are not a miracle from the God of the Bible? Please give us your comments, that we may see how unreasonable you really are
Anti theist, that is a new term. At least not that I've heard of. What does it even mean?
Ahh googled it up, that's cool. Against religion, think that it's harmful and should be eradicated.
Btw just climb through the comments, pretty sure you'll find them if you're genuinely looking for those.
@@edisonchin2463 first time i heard of the term "anti-theist" was a Frank Turek Utube video where he mentions it. Personally, would see this term as the true nature of the atheist, and not the term "lack of belief in God", as the latter would, in my opinion, more closely resemble the agnostic than the atheist
@@edisonchin2463 also, for lack of a better word, the "raids" the unbelievers would do in the comments section of christian Utube videos seem a bit milder than before. Maybe i'm not looking hard enough though lol
Did I miss the amputee part???
the man's intestines regrew after they were amputated.
@@TestifyApologetics That’s definitely a great miracle but a pretty liberal use of the word “amputee” that I think it would come off as dishonest to a skeptic or unbeliever. Nearly every definition of “amputate” refers to a limb or extremity. John’s Hopskins Medicine defines amputation as “the loss or removal of a body part such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm or leg.”
@@dangerdelw "the loss or removal of body part" is the definition you provided
Hi, i'm Catholic, and i love your videos. Has many storys of miracle cures that hapened in the story of saints, including the contemporanie ones like Father Pio for exemple. Thanks from Brazil.
I'm unfamiliar with the Pio cases. I do think the documented miracles at Lourdes are powerful and some involve belief in Mary's intercession.
@@TestifyApologetics While you're at it, look into Eucharistic Miracles. There are several very recent ones that took place in Argentina and Poland and have been examined by scientists and had papers published about them.
So enheartening!
No Christian doubts that God could do any logically possible miracle He wants. Unless we've personally seen or experienced those miracles it's difficult to believe the claims, even when documented. I've seen no one willing to suffer horribly or be willing to die standing on these claims as the biblical witnesses were with the biblical miracle accounts and resurrection that were multiply written and corroborated.
theres absolutely examples of non christian martyrdom and the historicity of how the apostles actually died is pretty controversial in the first place
What do you mean by "logically possibly" miracle? What is your definition of miracle? I always thought of them as supernatural interventions of God. What are your thoughts?
@@jop4112 For example, if God could poof Himself out of existence and then poof Himself back into existence with twice the power He originally had, that would be a miracle...but that is logically impossible...an incoherant notion.
My definition of a miracle is an "intervention into the laws of the physics of this universe by that which is not restricted by those laws, by that which brings about an event which is not possible by natural causes".
So yes, I would agree that they would be supernatural interventions by God.
@@kyrb885 Because of the nature of people, of course it would be controversial as to how the apostles died. People love to argue, lol. I find that the info we have is sufficient to show that at least 3 apostles died standing on their claims. It is multiply corroborated that all of the apostles plus many others suffered, some horribly, standing on their claims of the miracle biblical events, even when they had plenty of time to recant on their claims.
And of course, non-Christians are often martyrs, but the apostles and the early Christian martyrs lived at a time when they would have known if the events were made up. No one, not enmass anyway, dies for a known lie.
How can you multiply infinity?
Great content, thank you for sharing! May Jesus surprise us with many more amazing things! He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever!
Remember they hated christ first...fear not when they hate u count it as joy knowing u are not of this world...but the kingdom of God is at hand ...we r the hands and feet of christ the lamb of God slain yet lives forever more
I don't hate Christ. I do hate religious people who want to project power over me in the name of a man made idol.
@spencerwest8829
That's why modern atheism is so rude and anti Christian.
You atheists are polite and kind to everybody but us Christians.
Regular harassment from the Dawkins donkey brain movement.
No evidence will ever be enough until you open yourselves to God.
Christians are actively being slaughtered in Islamic countries yet you say there's no persecution.
I'm praying for all your souls because whether you like it or not.
God is real, and he'll be coming back and when that happens you can't claim ignorance for we all know the truth in your hearts.
I was an atheist for 20 years and God saved me from my drug abuse, you name it I likely did it.
Open your heart and you will see the light❤
So as a family member of a person with gastroparesis I can tell you that the disorder can get better or worse on its own. Sudden complete remission of symptoms isn't unheard of. Also gastroparesis is very poorly understood, we really don't know why people get it or why they get better. Like I think that overall medical miracles aren't persuasive because a lot of the time it's something like this a disorder or disease that isn't understood well that just got better.
I was an atheist for 30 years. You could have shown me a hundred miraculous healings in front of my own eyes and I wouldn't have believed a single one was from God. There's no amount of evidence that will convince an atheist because they a priori dismiss the idea of God existing even being a possibility.
The only way is to exorcize a demon in front of them.
@@Trendsthismonth Nope. I would have still denied it as smoke and mirrors or mental illness.
@@michaelcallisto So what made you change?
@@Trendsthismonth Basically I just read the Bible for myself. Realized that every prominent atheist I was listening to was lying about the Church, about its stance on science, etc. Then I made a genuine plea to God to reveal Himself and He did. Several times.
@@michaelcallisto Nice! Be healed in Jesus name and keep on spreading the good news brother 😁
Praise Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
I googled Bruce Van Natta and all I could find are the Christian sources for his claim. It could be a hoax or an exaggerated myth.
The main thing that abated my suspicion of the is the fact that we do actually have the official radiology reports. So that's one thing. Also the fact that thr hospital, and doctors, and hospital staff are all real people who operated on him, and none have since come out to dispell any supposed misinformation. It would be pretty easy for the doctors in question to go "hey, uh, no, that isn't how it happened", on any given public platform.
@@anthonypolonkay2681 where did you find all this information? I'm really curious
@@hamobu I actually got the link to the radiology stuff from one of testify previous videos on van natta.
In so far as the hospital staff are concerned I believe the operating doctor appeared on the 700 club interview about the case, and while I dont think any other staff appears on any programs, or interviews about it, its kinda hard to name a given hospital, and make as big a claim as Bruce has about what went on there, and said hospital not try to preserve itself from the critical eye of the public by not denouncing the lies if they supposedly are lies.
@@anthonypolonkay2681 it's odd that something that remarkable is only in Christian sources. There should be at least a paper in the medical journal or something.
@@hamobu
Given the reactions of the naysayers even in these comments, i donʼt think itʼs odd at all.
When people are violently set against certain beliefs, evidence supporting those beliefs will not be celebrated - or propagated.
This reminds me of a cardiologist from our church. He was travelling 6 hours between cities, and an hour out had to pull into a nurse station because his chest pain was too severe. He did his own ECG and saw he was having an MI, so he instructed them before dying on the bed. He was shockable for 48 minutes, before he was flat line, no shockable rhythym, for 37 minutes, during which they only provided CPR, no interventions. They stopped resus, called a time of death, and let his wife say goodbye. She prayed, and his heart beat returned. This isn't some sort of no witnessess, out in the scrubs, probably freak occurence. They were doctors in a medical facility measuring his ECG and providing high standard ALS as trained first world staff. They all agreed he was dead, and had performed significantly more CPR than required until his wife arrived. He has no deficits, no injuries, no lasting effects. Every organ recovered fully. Dr Sean George (My Miracle Story)
Its sad people are so gullible.
Peter Popoff is still fleecing the faithful
Saw a preacher in Africa raise a man from the dead just the other day
The concept of miracles is often misconstrued, as many individuals equate them with fantastical occurrences like flying dragons or exaggerated portrayals in Hollywood films, rather than recognizing them as genuine acts of divine intervention.
In Catholicism it is believed that St. Anthony of Padua restored a foot.
does it follow the cured test is the question tho
@@spencerwest8829 there are many, MANY cases of osteoporosis being completely cured by prayer and by faith. Bones aren’t excluded from miracles, you just may not have heard of them.
@@spencerwest8829Can a dog understand why its owner switches its medication?
@@spencerwest8829 Go ask Him. God isn't our divine sugar daddy who will fix all our problems. How do you know God doesn't do it anymore? Have you met every human on earth?
@@spencerwest8829 I do not know the means nor when God performs certain miracles. All I know is that he has done them in the past.
This isn't nearly as dramatic, and probably doesn't quite meet the criteria, but my younger sister had her scoliosis (bent spine) healed. Despite treatment by the chiropractor, it had been getting worse, but then, in the 6 months between X-rays, her spine went from being bent 13 degrees to completely straight.
Hallelujah! Glory to the Lord!
I like your criteria - it's a shame you don't actually follow the criteria, but instead uncritically accept the claims without any of the supporting documentation.
Barbras case is a true case of "I was blind, but now I can see"❤
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father." - John 14:12
Can somebody pray for me, my name is Alexander and I need healing in my stomach. My appetite hasnt as good as it has or should have been, and it has caused daily struggles.🙏
I'm praying for you!!
@@donmcmaine9213 Thank you 😄
Stomach be healed in Jesus name. Strengthen Alexander's faith in you Jesus. Show him the light.
Thank all of you
Yet he didn't heal my dying mother from her cancer last year
I’m sorry to hear that.
One of my best friends lost his Mum earlier this year. It can be a horrible thing to do through.
Yes, while it is evidence its... Weird evidence? Because it continuously raises the question, :"well why them and not this other situation?"
God is just, God is not unpredictable, God has reasons for the things He does.
So why not your mother?
Its a very disheartening situation, but I assure you even if I dont know it, there is an explanation. And I do not mean to be callous to your feelings, that is a hard thing to go through.
But God does have a plan, and it doesnt always involve everyone being healed, unfortunately.
If you are struggling with this concept I recommend the book of Job.
It could be that dying of her illness was necessary to save her soul. It does no good to heal the body temporarily only for both body and soul to be cast into Gehenna, but if the soul is saved, God will also raise up the body on the Last Day to eternal life. Suffering, even unto death, can be necessary in order to break the hold of sin over a soul, but those who die in Christ will also share in His Resurrection.
Isaiah 57:1 mentions the righteous dying as an escape from impending evil.
You need to watch God is not dead movie
I'm glad that it seems God has not abandoned the protestants, despite their schism from the one true church.
My only response is this doesn't count as evidence when there's no sources available anywhere. Literally just testimonies.
What other sources do you want? If both doctor, patient and those who knew the person all say the same thing there's a good chance it actually happened
Testimonies do have evidential weight, unless you have good reason to dismiss them.
In all of the 4 cases he mentioned, medical documentation is available. He even showed the myelogram from Delores Winder in the video
@@calebjackson6277 give me the source for that medical documentation then, cuz I could not find it anywhere, and I doubt its existence.
@@Google_Censored_Commenter
1. Delores Winder's healing and the documentation behind it are found in Chapter 10 of Richard Casdorph's 1976 book The Miracles: A Doctor Says Yes.
2. Bruce van Natta's healing and records are produced in Joel Lantz's book Bridges for Honest Skeptics.
3. Chris Gunderson's case was published in Romez, Clarissa, David Zaritzky, and Joshua W. Brown. "Case Report of Gastroparesis Healing: 16 Years of a Chronic Syndrome Resolved After Proximal Intercessory Prayer." Complementary Therapies in Medicine 43 (2019): 289-294.
4. Barbara Snyder's doctor discussed her healing in Chapter 11 of the anthology by Scott Kolbaba entitled "Physician's Untold Stories."
Jesus is and will always be Lord
i wept at tht last story
The fact that diseases can be healed at all is a miracle
Ever heard of hearsay?
Arguments?
these are from first hand accounts and you're not in court, jack
I just wanted to say that i greatly appreciate this video, even as a cessationist :)
Love your content by the way, keep up the good work!
Sincerely, a fellow apologetics nerd
I'll ask this in full good faith,
Do we not hear the same kind of stories coming from muslim communities claiming miraculous healing after praying to Allah?
If these stories don't crop up, that probably means that christianity is true. If they do, if we want to reconcile any religious workdview, we'd have to put those stories through a skeptical wringer to see if they're real or not. But if we do that, we'd have to go through the same process for the christian stories.
Beyond all that, the fact that these stories are primarily documented on TV preacher shows, lead by celebrity-status preachers, targeted toward the already-faithful and usually old-age christians of some specific protestant sect, makes these stories highly suspicious. I feel like genuine miracles would at least sometimes spread word of themselves by some other means, some kind of show that isn't built to play into the viewer's confirmation bias.
Just a thought, miracles could come from other religions too because God could show his love for people even if they don't know him.
If these type of miracles do happen in other religions then one thing is clear: God exists and naturalism is false
They do. This is America it happens everywhere
There is at least one miracle claim that has made its way into a medical journal as a case study. So, there is at least one such claim that has been promoted outside of the churches.
Another thing is that miracles of this sort are likely to be known precisely through the exact mechanisms you describe. Complaining that preachers publicize things with preaching about is looking criticizing pharmaceutical researchers for finding pharmaceuticals (I've seen people argue that the vested interest in money means we can't trust the pharmaceutical industry). Vested interest is only a limiting factor without medical documentation.
As for miracle claims outside of Christian contexts, these do come up frequently. In fact, claims of this sort are rather rare in the Christianized West compared to other cultures. That does not mean that Christianity is false.
@@Furetto126 Yeah, but they should praise God, not fake gods. Miracles are meant principally to exalt God.
Hey Testify, what do you think of Eucharistic Miracles?
How about common everyday miracles in other religions? This is story my Mom related to me who is a Shiite Muslim from Iran. Her cousin was born with a congenital defect which the doctors said would make her wheel chair bound for the rest of her life. One night my Grandmother was sleeping when Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad who my Grandma was named after, appeared to her in a dream and told her to get up and take her niece out of her crib and tell her to walk. She woke up and did exactly that and the child started walking. I have no way of authenticating the report my Mom gave but she seemed sincere and I don’t think she’d make something like that up
Yeah even hindus claim that they had miraculous healing from their gods. Thinking only Christian healing is true is so stup!d
By that virtue, if benevolent miracles are possible in contradictory religions, are the same spiritual forces responsible for the miracles?
If so, that would be a "win" for pluralism (if not universalism).
It’s possible god was reaching out to her and this miracle was his way of doing so
Jesus healed that woman but she thinks it was muhamad
I need more details than this, but the criteria is religiously neutral. If you have a miracle that passes the criteria, then I am interested in seeing it.
As a person who was once a sulking atheist and laughed off Christian theology despite all that I have done god loved me at my lowest point healing me of a heart/lung/gastric problem and by the grace of god I did not struggle but he chose to soften my heart towards him leading to an open embrace that Jesus who is Christ messiah is sent by the father amen ❤ to any atheist out there pls note god still indeed loves you
I don't get the thumbnail.
Anything is possible through Jesus, we also need to consider God's plan and how our circumstances play into that cuz that's the natural follow up sceptics would use "oh yeah then why doesn't every prayer happen?" Sort of deal
"Theres a slim chance we just dont know the scientific reason for why this happened"
So if we did then God can no longer be the explanation? Thats god of the gaps...
@@Sam_Hyde_Apologist okay… but you similarly can’t claim that we might one day have a scientific explanation for something when there is no evidence for it, that’s a Science-of-the-gaps. The point of God of the Gaps wasn’t to tell people that God can never be a hypothesis, if it was then the fallacy would just be an a priori assumption.
At my old Catholic Church I served Mass in there was a man with cancer in his body that was deadly. I can't remember where but I wanna say lungs or heard or stomach or something. It was a vital organ and they discovered it really late and he was an older gentleman in his maybe 50's. So he's not old but he's starting to get up there. He had asked the priest to say a Mass and pray for him, and then after this happened, when he went in to the doctors for treatment, when they checked him they didn't find a trace of the cancer. And they said it was as if it was never there in the first place. I thought that was a miraculous healing and it made me happy to hear.
Jesus heals people everyday. I am glad that you shared one of his many healing stories with us today.
@shy_gxxThere is a point in healing because his time has not yet come. That person still has things to do on this side before going to heaven. It also helps people in his church believe in Jesus too.
Now the story is being shared online so many more people will read it and see the power of Jesus.
@shy_gxxSpreading the faith and showing people that Jesus is still working miracles today. There is still much work to be done here on earth.
Imma be honest most if not all of these can be explained either by a misdiagnosis (happens more often than u think), placebo leading to faster recovery, or just rare occurrences of spontaneous remissions. And spontaneous remissions although they are rare. With 9 billion people its not rlly that rare and obviously the people who do end up havjng it will think its a miracle 😂
Look at this one with the mental gymnastics
Yes , but we are talking about growing small intestines here, blindness cured etc.
@@edisonchin2463 small intenstines can be repaired/regrown assuming u have enough stem cells, its actually the most highly regenerative part of ur body. And sight can recover depending on the cause for the impairment
@@siryizzur yes mental gymnastics = giving plausible explanations to claims of miracles
@@RealJaxine more cope, please. you have it alllll figured out with your brain that fits inside of a bucket. someone clearly just got done reading dawkins and listening to hitchens debates. I apologize if I’ve riled you up, feel free to go vent about it on the atheism subreddit and call us “sky daddy worshippers”. 🥱
Please look up the Miracle of Calanda for one of the most strongly attested miracles of limb "regrowth" out there. Jimmy Akin has a great video on his podcast "Mysterious World".
it's an interesting video. I was skeptical of it, but am more convinced there's something to it after listening to Jimmy and my friend Caleb Jackson discuss it.
@@TestifyApologetics always gotta take things with a bit of skepticism, but it's hard to with the records and multiple witnesses. It's quite fascinating.
I do believe in miracles
But i dont trust those that tell they have been saved by miracles.
Why not?
Why don't you believe?
Have you not been saved by a miracle?
there's a bunch of converts in Communist China that would disagree with you.
@@TestifyApologetics You forgot to add India and Africa.
As a person from India, which is super spiritual in nature, whose mom got saved by a miracle, it is unthinkable to me how anyone could not believe in the existence of the supernatural realm.
So are we saying satan can not do supposed miracles? In the book of Job, who killed his sons and daughters and who afflicted Job? Is the ceasation of demonic oppression a means by which satan may mislead men? Does Christ's claim that a house divided can not stand rule out satan mimicking the miraculous to mislead and decieve many?
Yes at the very least, if its in God's name.
If it is not, then sure.
But if it is in Gods name I fail to see how it is deception.
@@Yipper64 "There is no one who can work a mighty deed in My Name who can at the same time speak ill of Me."
Satan just means adversary. It's not actually a proper name applied to a specific fallen angel of any kind.
Unlikely things happen all the time. It's highly unlikely that any one person will win the lottery, but it's virtually certain that someone will win the lottery.
You're doing a lot of mental gymnastics to save your skepticism. The content of what happened to them is, from everything we know about science and medicine, is impossible. The context of what they are claiming happened in response to hearing a voice/them acting out in prayer. You're overlooking the context.
@@TestifyApologetics I am describing the law of large numbers. Among billions of people over many years, highly unlikely things are bound to happen.
This is why you need to employ statistics when doing studies to make sure that you are not reacting to random noise. When scientists did the study on prayer and healing, the group that was prayed for did no better then the control group.
And then you have survivorship bias/confirmation bias. The examples where you pray and nothing happens are quickly forgotten, while the opposite examples are remembered and retold over and over.
y ou pretend to use math as if it proves anything. What's the likelyhood of a man becoming a woman by the way?
"virtually certain"? You could also be virtually certain that an unlikely occurrence will never happen, by the standards of statistics
@@fernandoformeloza4107 but you can be virtually certain that something that's highly unlikely will happen.