Do you believe that healing revivals are real?

I ask myself what if we christians are way too naive and simply believe everything we read from so called other christians? I remember a scene in my house meeting where somebody talked about the great faith of people like Wigglesworth who healed soooo many people and then she recited a few of his miracles and at the same time she criticized that we don't have such a faith anymore to see such miracles.
What if we're living in a dream world? I mean the excuse is always so easy, we simply don't have the faith of these people which are supposed to have healed thousands in the past. It's so easy. We simply don't have the faith.
But what if these miracles never happened and were all a lie? Who can prove it?
When you think about how many frauds we have today which fake healings then why should it have been different in the past? What if we are taking things as 100% truth and talk about them as if they are a fact and the truth is that maybe they're a lie?
When you think about this you can become really paranoid and start to question everything. I think this is a real shame that you cannot even trust the people which call themselves christians. Some christians complain about how sceptical and how unbelieving the people are. Can we blame them for it? I don't think we can, because when you look at these frauds and weirdos on TV you really cannot blame them for being sceptical of miracles. What a shame.
This can lead so far that you become so sceptical and paranoid that you also do not believe those christians anymore which are really telling the truth.
But how do we know if God is still doing miracles today? How do we know if it's true that in Africa miracles are happening all the time? This is always what you hear from evangelists. In Europe and America God cannot do miracles because the people are so unbelieving BUT in Africa sooooo many miracles are happening. Limbs are growing back, people are healed from aids... and the christians believe it. They believe it all and don't even come to the idea that it might not be true. But how do we know if it's true? Nobody can verify it. But I have heard many stories of people going there after a huge crusade where many miracles are said to have happened and when they got there and asked the people there nobody knew anything about those great miracles....
What if these miracles never happened and the christians in Europe and America live in a dream-world and think that in Africa all these miracles are happening while they are not? Imagine you believe in this stuff and think that God is doing all those things in Africa and then you find out it was all a lie, this might seriously affect your faith.

 

Um.... do baptists not believe in healing? Or do you believe that it only happens very seldom or what do baptists believe? Do you believe that God pretty much keeps his hands out of our business today?

 

Cool.
I also don't know if healing crusades or huge healing events are really what God desires. I think we shouldn't make a show out of this. But the question is how do we know if these stories about miracles in Africa are real or not? I mean why do such incredible miracles always happen in countries where you cannot simply prove them or go there with a camera team and film it? Imagine a limb growing back caught on film, wouldn't this convince many people? Why shouldn't God desire this?

 

Does this mean that you believe that God would never do a really huge miracle which people could see and test because this would prove his existence?
But this would also mean that God is kinda limited in his actions because he cannot allow to reveal himself. This means that let's say I needed a really really gigantic miracle then I know at the same time that God cannot do it because this would prove himself. Right? :tear:
But then you also cannot have faith in miracles. This is my problem. When I ask God for something then I think that if God answered this prayer then it would basically prove his existence to me and then I think that God might not want to do this because if he did a real miracle for me then I wouldn't need faith anymore, would I?

 

Man what are you talking about? You don't know me so please stop this "Lack of faith. I hope you get saved" stuff. This angers me. Neither you nor anyone else can judge wether I am saved and wether I have faith or not. Gosh.

 

But the bible is so hard to understand. How can I even be sure that I understand it correctly? Without a commentary I don't understand many parts. This is simply frustrating. I sit there and it doesn't pay off. I get no sense of achievement. Sure, I could simply read the gospels all the time but this also isn't really productive. Or I might come across a verse which scares me and then I'm scared again. The bible is so condensed and hard to read, there aren't many books which are so hard to read. I like books which have a lot of acting and a lot of repetitions where I can quickly read over the text or also skip a few sentences without missing anything. This is relaxing. But the bible isn't like this. The bible is totally condensed and every single sentence is important and I just don't like such books. Reading them is totally exhausting. You can't simply read over the bible because if you do this then you read and don't even remember what you've read when you're finished. I don't really know how you even read the bible. But when every sentence is so important then reading becomes a torture. Maybe I also cannot stay focused long enough, I don't know. All I know is that reading the bible isn't fun, it's exhausting and frustrating. Especially the NT books. They are so condensed. Reading stories in the OT is easier and also more fun but the NT books like Romans are totally different. They do not contain acting. This is like comparing a novel to a law book. It's totally different.

 

And how exactly do I "let go and let God"?
I think I have let go long time ago.
So where's the miraculous opening of my understanding to the scripture?

 

What I don't like is how people which believe this word of faith stuff make it look as if you don't really believe the bible when you do not agree with them. They always try to make you feel guilty and make you think that while they have such a strong faith in God's promises you're simply not having the real childlike faith.
But what they don't get or don't want to get is that it's not about the bible, it's about what they say the bible says. But they make it look like they have the correct interpretation of the bible and this means that doubting their beliefs equals doubting the bible.