Argumentative Essay On Miracles - 1644 Words

By this point you may have noticed that I believe that miracles are a real thing. In fact, I know that they are. Yet, there are some people — especially here in the so-called â€Å"Western† world (which I prefer to call the minority world) — who deny that miracles occur. Let me briefly discuss this claim. There are thousands of medically verified healings around the world, recoveries after prayer that physicians view as inexplicable. American healing evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman welcomed medical verification of those being cured at her meetings, and one doctor who became convinced that some recoveries indeed were genuinely inexplicable was Richard Owellen, a cancer researcher. His four-month-old baby had a dislocated hip, but her legs†¦show more content†¦On the Solomon Island, a man was dying from tuberculosis, but was instantly healed after prayer and returned to his work, to the surprise of the doctors at his clinic who had deemed him as incurable. Matthew Dawson, a YWAM leader from New Zealand, was hospitalized in Australia for meningitis. He had excruciating pain and his doctor said that it would take weeks or possibly months before he could recover. The next evening on 6:15 PM however, all pain disappeared, and tests the following day showed that nothing was wrong with hi m, to the doctor’s big surprise. Matthew was later told that his father had initiated a prayer meeting for his healing which had started at 6:15 PM the previous day. Keener also refers to doctor William Standish Reed who has documented healing from breast cancer after prayer, and doctor John White whose wife was totally healed from tuberculosis of the cervical spine, which †bewildered† her doctor. The World Christian Doctors Network, based in South Korea, gathers hundreds of Christian physicians on conferences around the world to share testimonies of medically verified healings. Their website is packed with documentation. 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