There is a Wide Selection

People who don’t believe in God or in healing are always coming up with excuses for their unbelief. I say “excuses” because many people who have ample reason to believe choose not to in spite of the evidence. Human beings notice evidence, but it’s not what determines whether they believe or not. In the end, desire is what counts. We believe what we want to believe.

Skeptics say, “Why are there no documented miracles?” There are, but when you show them the documentation, they say it’s bogus. They ask why Christians don’t go into hospitals and heal everyone there. First of all, we’re not allowed to. You can’t barge into hospitals and do what you want. Second, many people will refuse prayer. Third, even strong healers don’t succeed with everyone. Fourth, not many Christians have reached the point where they can heal people. Fifth, quite honestly, some people are ill because God has given up on them; he will let you go eventually if you are determined not to be reached.

You can always find a lie to help you believe what you want. Remember the story of Lazarus the beggar. He was in heaven, and a rich man he knew was in hell. The rich man asked Abraham to send Lazarus to put water on his tongue, and Abraham said he couldn’t. He then asked if he would send Lazarus back to earth to warn his brothers about hell, and Abraham told him that if they wouldn’t believe Moses and the prophets, they wouldn’t believe one who returned from the dead.

Some people have returned from the dead in recent years, and they tell their stories on TV and Youtube. Doctors confirm that their hearts stopped for long periods. People don’t believe them, proving the parable of Lazarus was right.

Yesterday I saw a neat video from The Last Restoration. A young woman had a broken foot; she had injured it three days earlier. Obviously, a broken foot doesn’t heal in three days. It takes 6 weeks just to get to the point where the cast can come off.

Someone prayed for her, and she started dancing and jumping on her foot, which was still in a cast. Is that good evidence? If it’s not, then you have to come up with another explanation. Did all the people in the video conspire to propagate a lie? Did they buy medical supplies and put a cast on her leg? Why would she go along with that, and what’s the point? They don’t charge, so why would they go to the trouble?

Maybe your lie is this: “She wasn’t really healed. The cast supported her while she jumped.”

Later in the video, she removed the cast herself, on the same day, and jumped and danced some more. How’s that? Can you imagine the pain of jumping on a foot that had been broken three days earlier and which had just begun to knit?

Here’s another lie you may want to try: “Later on, the delusion faded, and she collapsed in pain and had to get another cast.”

Here’s your problem: the video shows her later in the same week, still walking without a cast, and she is still testifying. She talks about healing other people.

Now what lie will you reach for?

Some guy in the comments credited her mind with the miracle. I’ve heard this before. If the mind heals people, why do we still have medical science? Human civilization is thousands of years old, yet no one has been able to create a mind-healing industry. I have never been able to heal myself with my mind, but I have received a number of divine healings, some miraculous, through prayer. Why can’t my mind do what prayer does?

If you’ve seen good evidence, and you’re still not a believer, here’s the real reason: you just don’t want to believe. Maybe you like sin too much. Maybe you already have another religion. Maybe you’re a pro-homosexuality warrior. Maybe a Christian hurt your feelings. Maybe you hate God because one of your parents died young. Maybe you think Christians aren’t cool; it’s very important to be cool.

It really doesn’t matter what God does. If he appeared to you in person and let you look at his face and performed several miracles for you, later on, you would say you had been hallucinating.

Unbelievers keep moving the goalposts on God. They set the bar higher and higher so he can’t clear it. That’s why God doesn’t put on a constant supernatural circus for us. It wouldn’t help.

Here is the video. I think it’s genuine. I really enjoyed it, and I hope you will, too.