Quote from qwiktrade:
Actually John Lake's ministry was brought into question by officials in the city of Spokane and they did a thorough investigation in which they determined that the healings were in fact real. There were more than 100,000 documented cases in Spokane alone.
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I regularly see God do amazing things. You state that there is no proof, no pictures, no doctors etc, but this is simply not true. If I were to point to cases with pictures you would probably say they were manipulated. If I gave you cases that were supervised by doctors perhaps you would question their credentials and honesty.
If there are 100,000 documented cases in Spokane alone, then miracles must be so abundant they are practically commonplace... or at least more frequent than a statistically uncommon but unremarkable event, like the birth of twins. (Having been in the church for ten or twenty years myself, you'd think I'd have come across one or two. Miracles, not twins.)
The only way genuine miracles could occur in such abundance, yet with no compelling evidence available, is if the biggest and most powerful evidence suppression scheme in history was operating full time, around the clock, to keep the documentation of these miracles under wraps.
In order to get around this obvious contradiction, those who believe in these miracles suggest that doctors and scientists simply don't want to believe... that their hearts are too hard to accept the evidence presented to them.
But this explanation falls apart on multiple levels.
For one thing, there is the existence of religious doctors and religious scientists. If they had conclusive proof of miracles occurring--or even just enough proof to elicit a 'holy cow'--one would think these religious physicians and scientists would be falling over themselves to spread the word and have that proof documented. You would also think there would be a lot of spluttering atheists out there, presenting weak explanations for their take on phenomena that can't be explained. Why isn't this happening?
For another thing, the idea that a non-religious doctor or scientist would actively seek to suppress evidence of a miracle is ludicrous. In the presence of an incredible phenomenon, any physician or scientist worth his (or her) salt would first exhaust all possibilities of investigation before using the 'M' word, and would call on all his colleagues, journals, professional associations etcetera to help investigate. As a result, news of this strange phenomena would spread throughout all the medical journals and scientific journals. IF miracles were popping off like popcorn, there would be a great deal of excited head scratching going on. But there isn't. At least, not of the "it's a miracle" variety.
Lastly, the idea that a true physician or scientist would suppress amazing evidence out of spite is a slight to their character. Physicians care about healing; scientists care about understanding reality and finding new knowledge. If miracles are occurring on a regular basis, there is no way these dedicated professionals would be able to resist their fascination, their desire to investigate, their commitment to truth. Maybe a few bad apples could resist out of spite, but not all of them. Not even a half, or a third, or a quarter.
You can share your personal experience of miracles as commonplace, but the real possibility exists that you are deluded. It isn't pleasant to speak that way, but when your claims fly in the face of such overwhelming evidence to the contrary, delusion is the more likely prospect. It's either you or the entire medical and scientific establishment which is off the reservation... and if the second, that still would not explain the deafening silence of Christian doctors and scientists.
Your testimony is interesting and informative regardless, because it highlights people's capability to say and believe stupendously amazing things. There is something fascinating going on here no matter how you slice it... either your willingness to deceive for some utterly bizarre reason, or your genuine belief in a reality that simply does not exist, or (gulp) the validity of a medical / scientific conspiracy theory bigger and grander than all other conspiracy theories put together.
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