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What’s the evidence miracles really happen TODAY? How reliable are the accounts? In this video, I talk with NT scholar Craig S. Keener about his latest book: Miracles Today. We explore the evidence and take live questions.

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  2. Have you gone through John G. Lake learning. The Great thing all the teaching is from the Bible no any outside sources. The one thing that keeps us from seeing miracles is the sacred cows they have. They don’t want to believe Lake on the West Coast healed over 200,000 in 20 years. Two different states. He believed healing was repeatable by Christians. Lakes teachings (God’s Word ) allowed me to heal a woman from cancer. She had two months to live. It’s now been 14 years and she is living a good life. I healed a mother and daughter at an Awana meeting. Two hour before meeting the mother broke her finger. That night kingdom message was taught. I asked her if I could pray, had put her finger on palm of my hand. Just as I started her finger was moving with no pain. And the Great Part is that an 8 year old comes running saying MOM LOOK WHAT JESUS DID THROUGH HIM! Then she asked her mom if I could heal her? She had ruined her knee and it was going to be 3 years before anything could be done. I put my hands around her knee where there was a gentle wave that was flowing. I joked by saying are you moving your 1:11 knee? She said, no which I 1:11 1:11 already knew. When it was done her mom checked it out and said her knee never felt that good. And yes I have met a person who was raised from the dead. The overseer of John G Lake daughter fell from a second story window and died it was verified by a hospital that was over 30 years ago. God has allowed me many more miracles. However, the Churches Sacred Cows Keep it from Happening but, I am still having miracles occur.

  3. “Your faith has healed you”

    This always strikes me that Christ said that, I believe there is a threshold of faith you need in order to have a miracle happen, maybe from someone praying for you or you asking yourself through prayer.

  4. So I have had many miracles happen, but Actual physical healings? I have 2 that recently happen! They're small but so encouraging to my heart when we're living a very poor city life, and my heart is In the countryside.
    The first was healing from a bruising thar had formerly happened every time i ever played volleyball. I had to quit because my arms and hands were become to painful to use to hit the ball. But before starting a season of sports at my church, i prayed for them to not hurt. And i played for weeks with very minor pain in one arm! I was so excited and thankful I could play!
    The 2nd i had stepped on a sliver of glass and it went so deep it was bleeding and ached something awful! It was Saturday before easter and I had a tough night with my kids bedtime. I asked God to heal it up so the pain wouldn't distract me from worship. A while later I realized it didn't hurt anymore, and so i checked ….it was as though all evidence had been erased from my foot! I even checked by squeezing the area hard, nothing. I was really shocked! God loves you and wants to know you. It doesn't matter how unimportant you are to the kingdom work, he still sees you. And he's coming back soon!!

  7. The evidence of miracles is kicking cessationism to the curb. Randy Clark wrote his dissertation on metal disappearing. My favourite testimony is of a lady who had both rods and wire supporting her spine. The rods disappeared giving her increased movement and freedom from pain. But the xray showed that the wire was still there. So there is no way someone could claim the xray was of a different person. He came out of cessationism and has some excellent defenses of continuationism.

  9. Millions of Chinese experienced miracles of physical healing? Sure. Look, when Christians get lower insurance premiums I'll believe this. As of today there are no statistics of health, crime, or longevity that show Christians are the recipients of miracles. None.

  12. Back in 1968 there was an apparition of the Virgin Mary at Zeitoun Egypt which lasted for 3 years. Millions of people saw it and the police and the military did extensive investigations to make sure there was no national security threat. The authorities checked buildings around the church for any kind of lights, projectors, or other types of equipment that might have created the apparition. Nothing was found yet the apparitions continued for up to 3 hours nightly.
    So where were the skeptics? The skeptics had 3 years and plenty of time each night to disprove the apparitions on their terms. This was the opportunity of a lifetime where skeptics could have set up cameras and laboratory equipment to uncover the source of the apparitions and then show the world that the apparitions were faked, yet no one did that. Why?
    I think skeptics like Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins and atheist Michael Shermer didn't take the opportunity to discredit the Zeitoun Apparitions because they were afraid they might actually be true. If they had done an extensive investigation, and then, their own evidence showed it was legitimate, how would they play that down? How could they continue to deny God when the mounting evidence showed the opposite was true? Skeptics love to accuse Christians of being closed minded, but by denying their own evidence the tables would be turned against them. So they just ignored the apparitions passing them off as group hallucinations. The lesson learned here is that, in spite of what they say, skeptics don't really want to know the truth. They just want to embrace their own imaginary worldview and ignore any evidence that proves otherwise.

  13. I am skeptical of miracles at this time. Although I do believe that God does perform miracles at His will. I do not think He has poured out His spirit as He did at Pentecost yet…we are not quite in the right time for a huge outpouring, but it is coming. I totally believe God reveals himself to those seeking and chosen. There are many Muslims that are seeing Jesus in dreams,so believe that! Also believe that Jesus appeared to children in the turkey earthquake. I just do not accept the charismatic touching on the head, falling over and such stuff. I do totally believe in miracles, but I believe many charlatans take advantage of this and it takes discernment and HS to come to true revelation. I hope you understand were I’m coming from.

  15. Dr. Keener, I have great respect for you and always have. But I do have to disagree in one area, 1st Peter 2:24 says that by his stripes says that by His stripes we were healed. That is past tense, if we were healed then we are healed. Jesus did all for us and we manifest it in our body with confessing the Word

  17. If God answered every prayer, it would be chaotic.
    Also we humans would think WE have the power.
    Also God would just be a puppet.

    So for a miracle to be a miracle, it has to be rare, extraordinary, and in line with God's will

  20. A co-worker of mine, a Christian, said that while he was in the military, serving in a place in Africa, he saw a funeral procession in this very small Christianized town. These African men were carrying a dead woman, singing songs, and probably leading her out to the cemetery. He says that they stopped at a certain point in the procession, laid hands on her, and she returned to life right there. He said that he later talked to the townspeople about what was going on, because he didn't actually understand the context at the time, and thought that maybe they were doing some odd ceremony, but they told him that she had been dead, and that as they were walking, one of them received a messaged from God to lay hands on her and command her to rise. So they did, and she did. He says it's one of the most incredibly things he's witnessed in his entire life.

  21. My husband and I have both experienced documented healing miracles. Two separate occasions we had people pray and in my case I had vertebrae bone grow back which my orthopedic doctor had never seen in his 30 years of practice. In my husband's case he had a condition that was scaring his lungs and they were healed which his doctors said never happens, once you're scarred it doesn't go away. We were thankful, but not as shocked as Drs were❤️🙌🙏

  22. Hi Dr McDowell, I just wanted to add to your video that I like the way the word "miracle" is expressed in Chinese : 神迹 it literally means the trace of God or God's trail. Sometimes language can be a barrier to understanding

  23. When miracles happened in Biblical times nobody had to investigate to determine whether it was actually a real miracle. Inexplicable only mean that someone was unable to explain it. That’s a whole lot different than God making himself evidence to all who are present.

  25. God’s desire is to produce faith. Miracles tend to produce unbelief. Paul, Trophimus, Timothy, etc., were never healed…Miracle Dynamics: God's great miracles through Moses filled Egypt with undeniable evidence for the God of Israel (Ex. 9:27). Yet neither the Bible nor history records Egyptian repentance, only good riddance (Ps. 105:38; Ex. 12:35-36; 14:25). Further and more dramatic, consider the effect of those tremendous miracles on Israel. God followed the 10 plagues (Ex. 7:14–12:30) done on behalf of Israel with the parting of the Red Sea (Ex. 14:21-22) and the drowning of the Egyptian army (Ex. 14:26-28). Then daily for 40 years God appeared to the entire nation as a column of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night (Ex. 13:21-22; Num. 14:14; Neh. 9:12; Ps. 105:39). The Lord kept their clothes from wearing out (Deut. 8:4), produced water out of the Rock (Ex. 17:2-6), fed the people with angels food from heaven (Ex. 16:4-7) and brought meat on demand, literally filling their camp with quail (Num. 11:31-32; Ps. 105:40).

    Yet with all this, virtually the entire nation rejected God:

    For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? … Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? Heb. 3:16-17

    …and in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation… was gone. Num. 32:13

    Jesus did great miracles and crowds followed Him, but mostly out of selfishness. Of thousands who received His miracles, few worshiped Him. Of 10 lepers healed, only one even said thanks (Luke 17:17). Generally, Christ's miracles did not win over the crowds (Mat. 8:34; 11:20; 13:58; Mark 15:8-15; Luke 4:23-28; 8:37; 17:17; John 5:8-10; 10:25-39; 12:29-30).

    The Lord explained it this way:

    "If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead." Luke 16:31
    Why not? With one's eyes one may see a dead body resurrected, but faith does not come by sight. Rather, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). So even Jesus' own city rejected its miracle-working Messiah (Mark 6:4-6).

    All this evidence and still we find denominations and individual who who spend their existence searching for another “ miracle.”

  26. The total lack of skepticism.

    Why don't yoy properly introduce your guests?
    So that we at least know what his educational background is and how it relates to the subject of discussion.

    You introduce him as a convert… But that must have happened at a young age.

    Is anyone really surprised that a man with his background attributes every "miracle" with exactly the god he has studied his entire adult life?

  28. Half a year ago I was laying down in bed and a hand came out of nowhere and set down over my left shoulder, on my chest. I was absolutely loaded with joy and energy and light .. it filled my body like a light went on, it was extremely overwhelming. It was unearthly joy, not like happiness at all. At the time my back hurt and I was about to roll over in bed.. But this experience was so overwhelming I wasn't even thinking about my back, I just noticed afterwards that it didn't hurt.
    Another interesting tid bit.. The hand only stayed on me for about 3 seconds.. and when it went away I said, without thinking, "Thankyou!!" It came out like a reverse gasp, I just blurted it out. Also, the joy lingered after the hand left me. It was like I had stored it like some kind of joy-phosphorescent element.. but it slowly went away kind of like your awareness would if you were to stop breathing.

    So since this happened I have run into 2 other people online that have almost identical experiences. So to those who say this was a dream, how could I imagine something I have never experienced ? Something I cannot even begin to understand?

    When I think about healing, it's easy for me to say, it usually doesn't matter. I'm not perfectly healthy, I have weird health problems and whatever, I just want to be with Jesus at the end of the day, I just want Him to like me at the end of the day.

  32. God healed my gastroparesis after 20 years of being on feeding tubes and a failed surgery. He also called me off hospice for the same condition He hadn't healed me then just told me I wasn't going to die and told me to leave hospice. Then about 5 years after that About 1 year ago He healed me all the way.

  34. I haven't watched this interview to completion as its quite long, but I think its rather important to ask whether miracles happen in all religions, not just Christianity. I am fairly certain that you have the same reports worldwide in Islamic and other faiths, including pagan faiths (witches) and new-age spirituality (I have seen many credible reports on one reddit site I frequent, since I am partial to those beliefs).

    As such it isn't so much that Christianity is true, but that it points to something else that's sort of remarkable about the world. If praying to the Islamic God results in the same miracle, it kind of invalidates both the Islamic and Christian gods. In the end the only thing that is actually left is new ageism, because that is the only spiritual system that accepts the core idea that beliefs influence your reality, not adherence to any particular God.

  36. Dr. McDowell I ordered the updated 2017 edition of Evidence that demands a verdict that your father and you wrote together from Amazon today and l’tziyon tomorrow I should receive it and I can’t wait! I’m more and more becoming convinced that Jesus is Mashiach thanks to my study of the Tanakh in Hebrew and listening to your videos and listening to debates about Jesus’ messiahship especially between Messianic Jews and Orthodox Jews. I’m still unconvinced about biblical inerrancy and infallibility and perspecuity and canonicity but as you said that’s less important and whether Jesus rose from the dead or not is the main issue and I’m inclined to think he did and that the gospels tell history accurately

  37. There is no real documentation or scientific/medical investigation into miracles and you are expecting people to buy into what you say hook, line, and sinker just they do at the pentecosta/evangelical churches I have been a part of. Also, Sean (the apple does not fall far from the tree) is shallow and naive and not very intelligent.

  40. How does one know when a person with a theological PhD is lying! It's simple their lips are moving. Why do you appologists lie to people who are gullible and probably psychologically fragile. How can you fraudsters be so fraudulent, spend some of your so called Universities and seminaries money on these people instead of using this people for publicity. Both of you on my screen are a disgrace, especially Sean!

  43. A test: does it glorify God or man? Does it edify others? Or, does it draw attention to man rather than God? Is the healing immediate and forever? That would be more like an apostle miracle. Certainly God heals and cures, and even beyond what is explainable by science. Certainly, the "apostle-like" miracles was to evidence their authenticity as representatives of God the Father and God the Son, so their testimony and revelation of "The Word" was validated (Heb 2:4, 2 Cor 12:12, Mk 16:20, Acts 14:3). The miracles today, may truly be supernatural, but not to authenticate new revelation, nor to substantiate anyone involved in praying for the sick, and they do not seem to be of the breed the apostles' and what Jesus did. God will heal under His divine sovereign will and for His purposes only, having noted this, the bible says we need to: "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." James 5:14

  44. who is this barbara character? where are her medical records from before and after she was healed? why isnt this documented anywhere? not even from the templeton foundation who would pay a fortune to document these kind of story?>

    2 of the doctors wrote about the story>? where is the other doctor?

    if it cant be explained that dosent mean god did it.

  45. The messiah's name was always going to be Jesus according to Zechariah Chapter 6… which is the same name as the post exile high priest ,Yeshua!
    if the concept of Messiah and God are separate then it doesn't automatically follow that sins can be forgiven.. only God can forgive sins. furthermore if the expectation of Messiah is to reverse the events of Genesis 3 Genesis 6 and Genesis 11 then by Definition messiah has to be more than just a man.
    Jesus being born of Mary but not of Joseph is not a problem according to Jewish history because I believe during the reign of Queen Alexandra Jewish law made Heritage pass on, by matrilineal Bases.
    A basis for the Trinity can be established in the Old Testament by passages like Amos 4:11Isaiah 48:16.. and Judges chapter 2:1 and Daniel 7:9-14
    Support for the idea of God becoming man in Scripture are Deuteronomy 18 verses 15 to 18 Focus of the verse speaks of the coming Messiah coming from lineage of Israel like unto moses.
    We also have Exodus chapter 23 verse 20 and 21 the context of which is speaking about the future Endeavor of going over Jordan then we come to Joshua chapter 5 verses 13 to 15 and the context of this passage is having just gone over the Jordan into Israel.
    Another proof of this idea perhaps most glaringly Jeremiah chapter 1 verses 4-10… the first thing you want to pay attention to is titles in verse 4 and verse 9… Hashem and the word of the Lord these titles are used interchangeably there's some definite implication there but the point of emphasis here is verse 9 because it goes a little further than just anthropomorphic language.
    Now the next concern is did Jesus ever claim to be God? And for this the scriptures I would provide are Matthew 26:64 Jesus directly quotes Daniel 7:13
    John 10:34 Jesus claims to be the judge in Psalm 82 referencing verse 6
    In John 10 versus Both 11 and 14 Jesus Yeshua says that he is the Good Shepherd and you can cross-reference this with the very first line of Psalm 23.
    In Mark chapter 6 starting from verse 45 Jesus walks on the water this is something designated in the Old Testament for something only God (job 9:8) can do this separates Jesus from the other people who did miracles.
    Where another claim would be is in the fact that Jesus forgives sins, off the top of my head is Mark chapter 2
    now certainly there have always been Messianic claimants but none of them have ever claimed to forgive sins.
    Now the question becomes why would Jesus be so secretive? why didn't he just come out and say that he was the Lord God of Israel?… well one scripture off the top of my head of that I would provide here that might be interesting is this Matthew 16:20 "then he commanded his disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ"… my suggestion to you here, would be that the crucifixion had to take place at a certain place at a certain time and under a specific set of circumstances.

    Please Look into all the scriptures I made mention here I hope this helps even one person
    Hashem bless everyone of you… in the name of Jesus both son and God of David king of Israel, amen!

  46. Around 2005, after I got out of the hospital, I was extremely thin and weak and kind of in shock from the illness I had (ulcerative colitis). I lived in Atlanta and instead of going to my regular church, I started going to Mount Paran Church of God on Wednesday nights and then sometimes on Sundays. To be honest, I don't remember how long after I got out of the hospital when this occurred, but I assumed it had to have been within a couple of weeks after getting out of the hospital. But, I kept noticing something clanking as I went up steps and at other odd times. Well, I realized that I had no strength in my right foot and I could not lift it at all and when I went up steps it was dragging up and banging the steps. That shocked and scared and alarmed me. I had always gone to a Baptist or non-denominational church, so I did not necessarily believe in healing. Out of desperation, I went on a Wednesday night and asked for healing. About 5 elders or pastors pulled me into a room and put oil on me and then all put their hands on me and began praying. I had my head bowed and remained quiet, but I remember fighting thoughts like, "What the heck have I got myself into? Sorry, Lord, I didn't mean it. But this is crazy? Sorry, I am trying to not think this way, Lord, please heal me.." going back and forth and fighting off the foolish feeling I had for being there. We finished and although skeptical, I was still moved by their sincerity and kindness and was very appreciative. After about 10 minutes I tested my leg and it still did not move and nothing had changed and I thought, "Well, as expected. Didn't cost me anything so it's okay." So, I just accepted things and went on home. Then, sometime the next day, I noticed my foot was perfectly fine! I could not believe it. It wasn't like it was a little better, but fully worked. I thought, "Well maybe it's just a coincidence and it would have gotten better like this eventually anyway and last night was when my body got a tad stronger and this is all that has really happened." But what are the chances? And I would think with natural healing, it would be a little stronger the next day when I could start moving it a little or something. But it was fully operational. Just weird stuff. I'm such a sceptic that I struggle with things from God, but it truly is difficult to explain. Thank you, Lord.