Lee Strobel Makes the Case That Miracles Still Happen – and Shows the Evidence
Michael Foust
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By Michael Foust, Crosswalk.com
Author and investigative journalist Lee Strobel believes the world is filled with genuine miracles, and in a new movie, he makes the case for skeptics and believers alike.
Strobel’s The Case for Miracles will land in theatres Dec. 15-18, following the atheist-turned-Christian as he investigates claims of the impossible – interviewing eyewitnesses and experts to sift through the evidence. Fathom Entertainment is distributing it.
It’s based on Strobel’s book of the same name and directed by Mani Sandoval, who also helmed Strobel’s previous documentary, The Case for Heaven (2022).
“We have good evidence from cosmology and physics that there is a Creator behind our universe, and if indeed a Creator can create our universe, then for Him to intervene in the same laws of nature that He created would be child's play,” Strobel told Crosswalk Headlines.
One of Strobel’s favorite miracle accounts in the film involves a woman who said she was healed from blindness.
“She was blind for a dozen years with an incurable condition,” Strobel told Crosswalk Headlines. “She went to a school for the blind. She learned how to read Braille, she walked with a white cane.”
One ordinary night, though, her husband felt led to pray for her healing.
“She's already in bed, he comes over, he puts his hand on her shoulder, he begins to cry, and he begins to pray, and he says, ‘God, I know you can heal my wife. I know you can do it, and I pray that you do it tonight.’ And with that, she opened her eyes and said, ‘I've got perfect eyesight.’ She saw her husband for the first time. … Her eyesight continued for the rest of her life, which was another 50 years. So what do you do with something like that? This case was investigated by multiple medical researchers, and it was published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.”
The case does not have a natural explanation, Strobel said.
“This is an incurable condition, juvenile macular degeneration.”
Lee cites a Barna survey that found 38 percent of Americans say they’ve experienced a miracle in their life – a number that, if true, would lead to countless cases.
“If we got rid of 99 percent of those and said, ��Okay, they think it was a miracle, but it's a big coincidence’ – that would still leave a million miracles just in the United States,” Strobel said.
Strobel defines a miracle as an “event brought about by the power of God that is a temporary exception to the ordinary course of nature for the purpose of showing that God has acted in history.”
Miracles “deepen our faith” and “point us toward God,” he said. He hopes his film does the same for viewers.
“I hope for Christians, they walk away ever more in love with God and ever more solid in their faith, but I hope they also reach out to a friend who's maybe a spiritual skeptic, or someone who's maybe just spiritually curious, and say, ‘Hey, I just saw this movie. Why don't you come with me tomorrow?’ … I hope people use it as an outreach, and I hope it deepens the faith of believers as well.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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