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How are we to explain these "miracles?"

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Oh, wait, YOU were the faith healer?

Ok, did the mother actually say one arm was shorter than the other? Was the arm fully exposed?
 
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Can you give me a reason for how you knew to say what you posted?

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Of course, I could. But I don't think I need to justify myself. At all. I also don't have to justify myself for not buying Central Park or that famous bridge in Brooklyn.

I repeat one thing for you. Here it is:
"Stop trying to turn your shortcomings, your problems into shortcomings and problems of other people. There is nothing wrong about anybody who's trying to open your eyes about what happened to you."
 
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You present the Miracle as if it was a true con act. And you insist that I was "decieved". You knew with certainty your conclusions were correct. Why?


Experience.

I've purposely held back information from "doubters" for this very lowly talk promotion reason. All you have in hand is doubt, and you promoted incorrect conclusions of the Miracle and my witness.

So you deliberately held important information back until the oppertune moment -- which you believe is now -- in order to make yourself look even better?

Well then, let's have it...

You do remember I was the one who prayed to Jesus to heal the child. What I have held back, what you did not know, is what I did "before and during the prayer". I held the child. The child was in my arms.

Are you confessing that this was your con all along?


poking out through the sleeve, was it?

Why did you throw Him to the side and discuss what lowly people do on earth? Why did you change the focus of the Miracle? Why did you promote deception? This was about a Miracle!


Sorry, I just don't buy you as a faith healer.


And healing them, it would seem. Bet that scored you some brownie points with this congregation.


You expect anyone here to buy you as a faith healer, Question mark?


All who walk in doubt and unbelief you received a false testimony from TLK!

They received false testimony from you until you finally came forward with the truth -- assuming, of course, this is now the truth.

Anything else you've been holding back until now?

Now twist what extra information I just gave, twist it back to "how you want it", how the natural processes account for all that happens on earth!

Well, now we know who was conning whom...

Kudos for the doubling down; inserting yourself into the story is... ambitious.

Sad, but ambitious.
 
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Why continue to "personalize" the Miracle?

Now you know... it was only a matter of time.
 
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But this is, in theory, testable. If you are monitoring the brain waves of the driver you can easily see if he wakes up and gains control of the car.
 
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Actually, my experience is my defense.
I've seen this con before -- up close.
You'd lose.
Even if you could demonstrate that the scenario was a favorite with con artists, that has no relevance to the specific case about which you know nothing.
I know of Heiss' description of the event that it fits the description of such a con to a T -- the more he describes, the more it fits.
The more people describe your physical experience the more you resemble an ax murderer form the Ozarks. Perhaps we should hang you, then, just to be sure. After all, you fit the description to a T. Would you want to be tried by that logic?
As for proof, all we have is Heiss' testimony (which grows more shaky with every detail) and his own assertion that as one of the "anointed," he cannot be deceived by men.
Even if you could cast doubt on his story, you can't prove your own assertions. You made an accusation you couldn't possibly validate. Care to be an adult and admit it?
I choose not to call a miracle based on iffy testimony and personal pride. How about you?
If I was there and saw it, I'd have to say it was a miracle.
For me to say that it couldn't happen, I would have to say that miracles do not happen ever. However, I know for a fact that they do. So whether this happened or not we can't know. All we can do is to make a judgment based on the credulity of the witness.
I find him credible.

As for "libel." If the mother or the miracle worker feel they have been libeled, they can feel free to sue me.
Indeed they can. Whether they do or not doesn't change that you committed the act by stating as fact something you had no way to prove.
 
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For me to say that it couldn't happen, I would have to say that miracles do not happen ever. However, I know for a fact that they do.

Whether they do or not doesn't change that you committed the act by stating as fact something you had no way to prove.

No comment.
 
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You'd lose.
Even if you could demonstrate that the scenario was a favorite with con artists, that has no relevance to the specific case about which you know nothing.

Alas, the only person who does know anything about the situation only recently revealed himself as the one who did it. Can you say "credibility gap"?

Yes, yes... "God did it; Heiss was just His instrument, blah blah blah..." you know what I mean.

The more people describe your physical experience the more you resemble an ax murderer form the Ozarks. Perhaps we should hang you, then, just to be sure. After all, you fit the description to a T. Would you want to be tried by that logic?

What logic? You're babbling.


Even if you could cast doubt on his story, you can't prove your own assertions. You made an accusation you couldn't possibly validate. Care to be an adult and admit it?

Well, it is my word against the word of a faith healer, what kind of adult would dare go up against those odds?


If I was there and saw it, I'd have to say it was a miracle.

You would have to, wouldn't you?

Now, if you were there and said you did it... yes, yes, God does it, you were just his instrument, blah blah blah... do I have to say it was a miracle?



For me to say that it couldn't happen, I would have to say that miracles do not happen ever. However, I know for a fact that they do.

So you know for a fact that this one did happen?

 
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What has happened to the healing of the little child's arm Miracle event?

Has it been denied, twisted, distorted, taken away from, added to, and ............?

More up to date evidence that it occurred!

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What has happened to the healing of the little child's arm Miracle event?

Has it been denied, twisted, distorted, taken away from, added to, and ............?

More up to date evidence that it occurred!

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Asking for evidence is denying it? And because it was denied it occurred?

What twisted logic are you using?
 
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Want to learn of true, First Century Christianity scale Miracles in the mid 1900's, rich with documentations?

Who dare say Miracles do not happen! Who dares?

Start with firsthand reading from a major participant, who wrote a book during the very unusual time of Jesus manifesting Supernatural Healing Events by the thousands across America!

The book to read: "William Branham: A Man Sent From God"; by Gordon Lindsay in collaboration with William Branham, Published by Christ for the Nations, 1951

There will be those who pull internet info. But who will read the book listed? Who wants to go to the source of the information of William Branham?

And it was not only a healing wonder among hundreds of thousands of participants but was a Spiritual Time and Season in relation to the Last Days.

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Indeed, any two-bit con artist can do it.

many of them count on the mark's willingness to believe, or their pride in refusing to accept that they've been duped.

In the case of religious cons, the perpetrators can find both in abundance.

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Your "experience" you have acquired is only about the acts of the lowly, the fakes, that manmade and man produced.

You have no "experience" in the real, true Power from on High Miracles, now do you!

And you have produced multiple post with "authority" on the subject matter of Miracles? How can this be???

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And you have no reason to judge anyone or expect them to believe you. None, you refuse to provide names, dates, nothing that would indicate the miracle you claim to have seen to be real. Someone would have to be super gullible to believe your personal miracle actually was real and happened, even if they were a person who believed miracles happened.
 
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Do you want to enter the real world and discuss realities found and experienced by hundreds of thousands or do a one off miracle "equal right to who is true"?

Read the book from Gordon Lindsay and William Branham - the events of Supernatural healings are documented by the thousands. All these to the masses in the mid 1900's. Tell me Miracles do not happen, that there is no Supernatural displayed from above!

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You need to pay more attention, Heiss:

 
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I don't need you to prove whether or not miracles do happen, I need you to prove the miracle you personally claimed to have witnessed happened. Because regardless as to whether or not I believed miracles happen, I would still be skeptical about the one you claim, because so many miracles are faked it is ridiculous.
 
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Hundreds of thousands of people around the world, with most in the USA, were Miraculous healed through the Lord Jesus at mega-meetings held by William Branham. The documentation behind these "before the masses" Miraculous works is prolific.

And people doubt Miracles happen? You are not looking very hard!

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It takes only one Miracle to prove Naturalism has an erroneous foundation, that Naturalism is a lie, that the Supernatural does influence the natural.

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If you can verify the miracle, which you refuse to do. But even if miracles were proven to happen, I doesn't mean what you claim did.
 
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