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I notice you did not answer the question. I guess you just can tell my attitude and tone from your superior faith. What hubris!
You are talking about "miracle cures", etc. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof! Why are you so reluctant to provide any facts? I am not questioning your faith or religion, just your facts!

It's possible that my response reflects a certain . . . element of reflex to the typical hereon.

However, in terms of the report--I found the reporting person very convincing. It may be that my long term relationship with the reporting route was a factor.

I also found a witness in my spirit as I read the report--much stronger than average by quite a margin, in fact. Either one of those would have been sufficient for me. Both together are certainly sufficient.

The pharisees demanded a sign. Modern day ones demand proof WITH A CERTAIN ATTITUDE. Your wording and style seem consistent with that attitude.

I'll see what I can track down in terms of the longer report. But, I don't think anything will convince you until you are 30 minutes away from death from perhaps lung cancer with massive masses over 70%+ of your lungs and then healed dramatically with accompanying X-rays. You MIGHT then believe. I'm skeptical short of that--that you'd believe any "evidence" regardless of how dramatic or rigorously obtained.

There are no accompanying medical stuff with the report. Just honest people in a room with needs when they arrived at the movie. As they left, the physical needs were gone. As the blind man in the NT said--'I don't know all that. All I know is that once I was blind but now I can see.'

I'm curious, does your theology preclude healings in the modern era--since St John ran out of ink with Revelation?

I searched through half a dozen or more MEL GIBSON threads and didn't find the one concerned. I'm going to do some grading and class prep now. I may eventually search my own comments list to find the post.

I will note, however . . .

that while God DOES care about facts,

in Scripture and in my experience,

GOD CARES FAR MORE ABOUT ATTITUDE . . .

ESPECIALLY ATTITUDE OF THE HEART . . .

which seems to relate to spirit rather directly.

And the attitude of the heart and the spirit flowing out of the heart largely decide the nature of one's relationship with God and others.

I'll stop there instead of pontificating further at the moment.