[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:<<< Because atheists wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.[/quote]Looks like were gonna repeat these threads every so often. There is truth to what you say that you probably don’t realize. Also, I don’t know that He hasn’t ever healed amputees. Further, I know of instances where I, the king of skeptics when it comes to this kinda thing, am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that a bona fide supernatural healing has taken place in answer to prayer in the name of Jesus. There is a woman in my church I saw this morning who was blind in her left eye and almost so in her right from diabetes that now has 20/20 vision and is no longer diabetic. As in instantaneous restoration of sight and never a high blood glucose reading since.
Just in the last six months one of the associate pastor’s pregnant wife had some complications (don’t recall details at the moment) where her blood pressure went sky high and both her and the baby were in danger. Nothing the doctors did was helping. 4 of the senior clergy anointed her forehead with oil and stood against whatever this was and within 30 seconds her blood pressure began dropping and after a couple a minutes it was normal. She is still today on the Beaumont Hospital TV commercial (though she only appears as they are describing they’re wonderful doctors).
I already gave this testimony in the last thread identical to this one. I found it, here’s some quotes from there to save me some typing. 07-12-2010 [quote]There are few areas of American religious experience that has been more fraught with more abuse of the simple than this. I don’t have all the answers, but I will say I have first hand knowledge of one guy I am convinced of a certainly had his legs supernaturally healed by God. He wasn’t an amputee, but was born with a condition where his kneecaps almost faced each other inward. I don’t remember what it’s called. Anyway when he was 9, in his own church, I t’s been a long time and I don’t remember who it was now either, but somebody prayed for him.
He told me the guy squatted down in front of the seat he was sitting in and laid his legs up on his own thighs. He put his hands one on each leg by the knee and told them in the name of Jesus to be straight and they were. No sensation really, they just straightened out. He was 19 when I met him many years ago and I saw the pictures of him as a kid and it took my breath away. This is one guy I also do not believe would lie to me. Actually I knew him for over a year before he even told me and there’s no way you could know otherwise. His legs were normal.
Why doesn’t God do this more often? I don’t know for certain. Some people, many of them in my own theological tradition believe miracles ceased altogether after the birth of the church in the 1st century never to return in this age. I disagree. I will say again however as I already have that I refuse to speculate beyond what is revealed. God owes no man anything, but has nevertheless made Himself more real to me than any other fact of life. Feel free to call that what you want.[/quote]Same day:[quote]God cares most about displaying His own power and glory before His creation in ways and times that are perfect in His own providence to Himself. All else is subservient to and ordered toward that end. He owes no creature anything. Not life, not food, not health, not healing, nothing. In the case of man who stands guilty of eternally capital crimes, God owes him an eternally capital sentence.
The fact that He has satisfied His own justice regarding some of them so that they not only escape that sentence, but are infinitely blessed in the process is reason for immediate adoring prostration before His throne. When, how, in what cases or whether at all He decides to perform what are wonders to us, is His business for the purposes already mentioned. We are back to the old adage.
In the eyes of unbelief no evidence will ever suffice anyway and to the heart of faith none is necessary. Yep, from where you sit that is a cop out. I would be foolish to pretend otherwise.[/quote]
