I am not lying or exaggerating to you when I tell you what I have already said on here before.
I HAVE eye-witnessed a "near amputee" style healing from no more than about 2 feet away. I watched the leg GROW OUT by several inches through prayer in the name of Jesus, with no possibility of a hoax, in a small gathering, I'd say sometime around 1993. This leg had been injured decades earlier in an automobile crash, and he had a noticeable, obvious limp with the injured leg being several inches shorter than the healthy, due to the bone and tissue damage.
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I watched the leg GROW OUT by several inches
My penis does the same thing. Amazing!
I'd say sometime around 1993
Really? That's what you would say? I know that if I saw something like that I would remember when it happened right down to the second.
It astounds me that we get this anecdotal evidence by the millions, year after year, of truly incredible events.
And yet there is never, not once, a person who has a camera, or video recorder.
At this point, every goddamn cell phone in existence has a recording function, so there's really no excuse. Fantastic claims require fantastic evidence, champ.
One leg was allegedly a little shorter than the other and it appeared to grow to be slightly less short, in a room full of praying Pentecostals worked up into a suggestible, emotional frenzy? Somehow I can believe that this actually happened.
What you describe could easily have been a hoax. It's well documented that pastors fake "healings" in those kinds of meetings all the time.
If not, you were either deluded by your own religious fervor into seeing what you wanted to see, or you're lying.
So both legs were measured before and after the healing?
I've just sat here and achieved the same leg-stretching effect a couple of times. Holding one leg out straight in front of me I slouch in my seat (having someone pull on the leg would do just as well). The seat of my trousers, caught between my buttocks and the chair seat, stays put and hence the trouser leg doesn't shift either. But my own leg slides forward - and pokes more and more out of the cuff.
My grandmother had one leg an inch shorter than the other, due to a not very competent surgeon who performed her hip replacement. She read the Bible every night...read it all the way through several times, as a matter of fact. And she prayed every single day. And she wore a built-up shoe until the day she died because her leg never got any longer. So...???
So you saw someone straighten their leg and stop limping after being prayed over? Yup, you got me, there's no possible way to fake that.
Similarly Hugh Laurie regularly has an operation to cripple his left knee just so he can continue his role as House, MD.
Typically when a person begins a story with "I am not lying or exaggerating," the chances are pretty good that they are. Really it's no different than the people who say "I'm not racist, but..." right before they go into a racist rant.
I call bullshit. Eyewitnesses, especially at spiritual events, are the most unreliable of evidence. You were hoodwinked.
I HAVE witnessed a amputee praying for his leg to GROW BACK, and it totally did! And then Jesus came down from heaven, and he gave us both some ice cream, and then the three of us went cruising around in Jesus' sweet camero, and he turned water into pabst, and we totally partied all night!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME!?!
Except, "in a small gathering", there is every possibility of a hoax. Convenient that you don't have names and this apparently happened 17 years ago, making fact-checking nearly impossible.
A leg shortened in an automobile crash would likely be missing the associated foot.
I've witnessed a Yogi straighten the legs of a bow-legged woman out* Does that mean Hinduism is the one true religion?
Although he wasn't claiming magic powers, just that he could correct issues including one short leg, with teaching posture and balance exercises
I am not lying or exaggerating to you when I tell you what I have already said on here before.
So you aren't lying about having told this lie before?
I HAVE eye-witnessed a "near amputee" style healing from no more than about 2 feet away
So which is it? Are you Lying for Jesus, or are you an acid casualty in the throes of a flashback?
I watched the leg GROW OUT by several inches through prayer in the name of Jesus,
So why is it always fundies going on and on about how they witness an amputee's limb miraculously grow back? Why are there no former amputees giving testimony about how jesus magiced the missing limb back into existence? You can say you saw this happen from sun up to sun down and not be a bit more credibale than some yahoo trippin' on PCP saying that he saw a pile of cow shit get up and dance the fandango.
with no possibility of a hoax,
Because it not possible for someone to pull one over on you, right? Tsk, tsk, tsk... Pride goeth before a fall ....
in a small gathering
because small gatherings are oh-so hard to fool, right......
"Pardon my ignorance, but what constitutes near-amputation? "
Nearly Headless Nick style amputation? You know, limb still hanging on by mere millimeters of flesh?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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