Originally Posted by
Gofer Blue
He does - he sent Jesus but you have rejected him. End of story.
Re: miracles. I still retain a certain degree of skepticism (a hang over from my pre-Christian days) on this subject, probably because whilst I have heard about miraculous healings, I have only ever witnessed one myself and that was because I was present and I knew the lad concerned and his family also.
A pastor came over from the USA for one year during the early 1990's and he lived for that time in a rented house in the Rhondda. He had been a chaplain in the U.S. air force during WW2, stationed near Marloes in Pembs and still had a heart for Wales all those years later. Frank was a lovely man, very humble, a real man of God, without any of the drama we often associate with American evangelists.
One Sunday he came to our chapel in Pontypool to preach, so he knew nothing about our congregation. Present was a young lad William who had spina bifida and who could only get around in a motorised wheelchair and could only communicate using a laptop (think Stephen Hawkings). During the service Frank suddenly stopped and looked directly at William and simply said, young man get up and walk to me. To our amazement William got up very slowly and walked unaided, albeit unsteadily, towards the front. To say we were all in a kind of shock was an understatement. His family were in awe as were the rest of us who had known William for years.
The strange thing was that although William was able to walk back to his wheelchair, as as far as I know, he never walked again. I still wrestle with that to this day but there was no denying what we witnessed - it was a miracle.