“Sir, I am not going to argue about this with you. You have only served to prove my point. You want proof, and you won't accept anything given to you as proof.”
That depends on what’s offered.
“I have seen people healed of cancer. The doctors were astounded. They could not name a cause.”
Oh, look, you have an anecdote. This would only be evidence if I had been there and allowed to ask pretty specific questions.
“I have seem lame people healed. Instantly.”
The plural of anecdote is not ‘evidence.’
“ I have met people who were so hooked on drugs and alcohol, that they could not see a way out. And God took their addictions away - instantly.”
Did you see them when they were addicted? I am suspicious about every ‘god saved me from’ story. People claiming they were witches, gays, communists, and so on, but their tales match TV more than actual witche or gays taht I’ve met.
" I know a person who's cousin was raised from the dead at their funeral.”
That one’s bullshit. Someone who was declared dead, went through the embalming process, sealed into the casket, all of this with very clear records, and he gets back up? That’d be on the News for a year.
"I have heard so many stories of miraculous things.”
And what did you do to verify the story was authentic?
“I haven't seen science do any of that. And it has no way of explaining it. That's proof.”
That’s a story. Muliple iterations of ’that’s a story.’ If some ancient general stopped an invasion because two of his messengers said, ‘Hey! Zeus said he didn’t want you to invade.’ Would you believe that story proved Zeus?
"You will not accept it.”
Ockham’s Razor. It can be explained without demanding that supernatural power is real.
“You want to see it yourself.”
And why not? All the disciples witnessed several miracles. Multitudes saw shit that could ONLY be produced by the Messiah.
“Sir, you will not find it where you are looking.
What's more I don't think you will ever find it when you do not want to.”
I spent a long time looking for God, or at least a church that wasn’t full of bullshit. I got tired of the same-old, same-old recounting of ‘someone once told me.’ But you’d think if ANY of your stories were true, it’d be easier to produce corroboration.