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lurking in
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Date: March 22, 2017 04:56PM
... that you were the beneficiary of a healing "miracle" or witness to one? And has your interpretation of the experience as a evidence of the supernatural changed since leaving the church? Why or why not?
The closest experience I had involved a close relative who was plagued with many big, ugly warts. They tried EVERYTHING to get rid of them over the course of many months, maybe even years, but to no avail. As a last ditch effort (lol), they asked for a priesthood blessing. Within a couple of weeks the warts were completely gone. Seemed pretty amazing to me at the time, and as a TBM I accepted it as a miracle. However, since leaving the church, I've stopped trying to invoke the possibility of a miracle in the face of something I can't explain. And it seems that warts respond favorably to "suggestion" anyway, further downgrading this particular experience in my mind as evidence for divine intervention:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3387508It would be interesting to hear your stories. Thanks!
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