Highly Evidenced Modern Miracle Reports? (More Examples Below) - Gary Habermas

*Examples of Reports below: Dr. Gary Habermas discusses Craig Keener's findings in Keener's book Miracles (pre- & post- MRI, CAT scan, & x-ray reports, etc.) Here are several examples of Keener’s healing accounts: 1. “a sudden disappearance of a child’s massive brain tumor after prayer, before any medical treatment could begin.” The tumor covered almost one-fourth of the girl’s brain, with MRI confirmation from both before and after (vol. 1, 428). 2. An eight-year-old boy had two holes in his heart, a condition that also impaired his lungs. After prayer he was taken to surgery. But before and after tests showed that the holes that were there the previous day had now been healed. He did not need surgery and was cleared to play baseball just two days later (vol. 1, 431-432)! 3. A physician related that a patient was “immediately cured from metastasized breast cancer after prayer” including before and after medical evidence (vol. 1, 435). 4. Another physician confirmed that a woman with tuberculosis was healed after prayer. The physician could confirm that her cure was permanent, because they were later married and spent the rest of their lives together (vol. 1, 435)! 5. While away from home at a Christian retreat, a man broke his ankle badly, and went to a hospital, where an orthopedist set the ankle in a cast. Upon arriving home the next day, several states away, he was sent by another physician to another hospital for X-rays. After studying them, the physician informed the man that his ankle was never broken, as indicated by the lack of a break or even tissue damage where the break had been. But the earlier X-rays were ordered and clearly confirmed the break. A set of the radiology reports were also sent to the author, Craig Keener (vol. 1, 440). 6. A hospital physician reported watching as a ten-year-old girl’s club foot “straightened before my very eyes” while the girl was being prayed for (vol. 1, 463). 7. A woman’s spleen was removed by surgery but when she was later examined, she had another spleen in its place (vol. 1, 491)! 8. A baby was born without hip sockets or a ball at the end of her bone. It was determined that she would need a cast throughout her life. But the church prayed and, when she was examined again before being placed in the cast, contrary to the earlier X-rays, she now had both hip sockets and the ball at the end of the bone (vol. 1, 503). 9. Forty physicians confirmed the specific case of a cure from Lourdes, France “of a medically incurable, quadriplegic post-encephalitic idiot—a child who went from complete insensibility and lack of control to intelligent normalcy” (vol. 2, 680)! 10. In another case, cancer had spread and the patient was given up by physicians, but was cured instantly with damaged organs reforming (vol. 2, 682, note 206). #GaryHabermas #Miracles #Resurrection