Alan Webb's wife Julia says she experienced a miracle while running on the treadmill

If I ran 10 miles on a treadmill, I'd start bleeding from the eyes.

Raysism wrote:

If I ran 10 miles on a treadmill, I'd start bleeding from the eyes.

This is a great illustration of the cultural divide in the USA. Observant Christians/Jews/Conservatives are constantly exposed to the views and philosophies of the secular left; you can't log on to google, yahoo or MSN without seeing their latest point of view. The secularists, on the other hand, are totally insulated from an entire reality of beliefs and values, comprising tens of millions of citizens. They mock, they parrot Bill Maher, an atheist leftist whose philosophies resulted in 100 million deaths in the last 100 years and wonder why there is a backlash.

the 72 hour rule wrote:

Jesus is Back Baby!

Did he look relaxed?

Not sure when Alan Webb became so devout either but judging by the rest of the treadmill screen it's either sweat mixing with muck on the screen, a rusty drip from the ceiling, or really anything but blood. but yeah definitely don't bring this blood sample to a lab, bring it to your church where the pastor will say it's the blood of Christ just to keep you going to his church.

newredsun wrote:

Raysism wrote:

If I ran 10 miles on a treadmill, I'd start bleeding from the eyes.

This is a great illustration of the cultural divide in the USA. Observant Christians/Jews/Conservatives are constantly exposed to the views and philosophies of the secular left; you can't log on to google, yahoo or MSN without seeing their latest point of view. The secularists, on the other hand, are totally insulated from an entire reality of beliefs and values, comprising tens of millions of citizens. They mock, they parrot Bill Maher, an atheist leftist whose philosophies resulted in 100 million deaths in the last 100 years and wonder why there is a backlash.

the “secular left” lol

newredsun wrote:

Raysism wrote:

If I ran 10 miles on a treadmill, I'd start bleeding from the eyes.

This is a great illustration of the cultural divide in the USA. Observant Christians/Jews/Conservatives are constantly exposed to the views and philosophies of the secular left; you can't log on to google, yahoo or MSN without seeing their latest point of view. The secularists, on the other hand, are totally insulated from an entire reality of beliefs and values, comprising tens of millions of citizens. They mock, they parrot Bill Maher, an atheist leftist whose philosophies resulted in 100 million deaths in the last 100 years and wonder why there is a backlash.

Thanks?

Let's say, for that sake of discussion, that something supernatural did in fact happen. What evidence is there that this is a supernatural occurrence caused by the God of the Bible?

Michael Smores wrote:

newredsun wrote:

This is a great illustration of the cultural divide in the USA. Observant Christians/Jews/Conservatives are constantly exposed to the views and philosophies of the secular left; you can't log on to google, yahoo or MSN without seeing their latest point of view. The secularists, on the other hand, are totally insulated from an entire reality of beliefs and values, comprising tens of millions of citizens. They mock, they parrot Bill Maher, an atheist leftist whose philosophies resulted in 100 million deaths in the last 100 years and wonder why there is a backlash.

the “secular left” lol

Please explain further rather than proving my point by simply chuckling with your cilia going supra.

I run on the treadmill minimum 3 x a week because Alan has been gone from 6 AM-6 PM and they have great childcare. Alan had a massive spiritual conversion in 2015 and soon after went through RCIA and is now Catholic.

I still have the blood sample and don't plan to give it to a church. They don't have time for that stuff. I need advice or where to bring it. I contacted Arkansas Supernatural Experts and they did not respond. HA! My next thought: the police? my doctor? I don't have one yet here in Little Rock. I just want to see if the blood matches my own. That would be the only place it could have come from because I was the only person within reach of my treadmill for that run! And yes, I do sound super crazy. Totally get that. I'll keep everyone updated if something logical can explain the situation. :)

-Julia

newredsun wrote:

Michael Smores wrote:

the “secular left” lol

Please explain further rather than proving my point by simply chuckling with your cilia going supra.

“cila going supra” lol

Stop making fun of the poor Christ followers

RunMore wrote:

Let's say, for that sake of discussion, that something supernatural did in fact happen. What evidence is there that this is a supernatural occurrence caused by the God of the Bible?

A good chunk of the world are desperate to see things that aren’t there, while ignoring on a daily basis what is right beneath their noses. We have had no biological changes at all in the last 250k years while our environment is completely different. It’s a massive psychological fvck we brought upon ourselves. The stories of the Bible are primitive and not clever at all but somehow they still hypnotize the masses. The world is full of idiots...

Trollminator wrote:

RunMore wrote:

Let's say, for that sake of discussion, that something supernatural did in fact happen. What evidence is there that this is a supernatural occurrence caused by the God of the Bible?

A good chunk of the world are desperate to see things that aren’t there, while ignoring on a daily basis what is right beneath their noses. We have had no biological changes at all in the last 250k years while our environment is completely different. It’s a massive psychological fvck we brought upon ourselves. The stories of the Bible are primitive and not clever at all but somehow they still hypnotize the masses. The world is full of idiots...

I once thought as you did until I actually read the Bible, a study Bible to help me along, and was first impressed by the mundane details especially in the letters to congregations explaining purely human concerns like squabbles about money, health and reputation. The details regarding criminal trials before rulers and the salient geography square nicely with history and archeology.

The character development in consistency and detail rivals modern novels which are said to have not emerged until Victor Hugo 19 centuries after Christ.

That so many authors, eye witnesses, scattered across an area that took months to travel somehow coordinated a hoax in order to face almost certain death is an absurd conclusion drawn from a blind secular faith.

There is strong evidence for a big bang with forces able to explode worlds in temperatures in the millions of degrees, conditions scientifically incompatible with life throughout the entire universe. Cooling, inert rock in space spawns life?

As the author Eric Metaxas has said, life had to come from outside this system.

Gherkin wrote:

A miracle is somebody being healed of cancer, a person risen from the dead, a horrible accident magically avoided when it seemed inevitable, etc.

Let's pretend that is proven to be the virgin Mary's blood weeping from the treadmill. What you have is a mess to clean up, not a miracle.

preach brother.

RunMore wrote:

Let's say, for that sake of discussion, that something supernatural did in fact happen. What evidence is there that this is a supernatural occurrence caused by the God of the Bible?

This is what would be examined by Church authorities if someone wanted to claim an extraordinary occurrence as a miracle.

Contrary to popular belief, the Catholic Church is extremely wary here and only a tiny percentage of suggested miracles are recognized by their authorities. (Don't ask me what the examination procedures are but I guess that nowadays they would involve also some scientific testing.) As there are no other gods (of the big G there can only be one, He is not like Thor or Mercury) a supernatural occurence must have been caused either by the one God or by demonic forces. I guess excluding the latter would historically also be one reason for examination by the church. But demons would hardly try making rosaries bleed to strengthen the faith of the faithful, they would rather try occurrences to disturb them and shake their faith.

This is among the most awesomely ridiculous bits of running-related news I've seen in a while.

Probably what really happened is a spontaneous nosebleed with the drops blown forward by her own breath.

Jo72 wrote:

demons would hardly try making rosaries bleed to strengthen the faith of the faithful, they would rather try occurrences to disturb them and shake their faith.

Why not? Aren't they tricky? If that new faith is inspired by a demonic trick, isn't it really unwitting faith in the demons?

The demons could eventually have them worshipping that rosary and hearing it command them to do heinous acts in the name of the one true god. It will convince them the church was taken over by a heresy. They'll start a cult and start locking people up in their basement and making them self-flagellate while running on the treadmill 10 hours a day with no water or food.

Julia, I suggest that you not expect your experienced miracle to provide much evangelistic potential. Consider the response of doubt in Matthew 28:16-18 by Jesus' very disciples when they see him post-crucifixion and taken up into heaven, a most incredible miracle! I have to chalk up that doubt reaction of some of them to our very human nature (after all, even on the secular level, there are those in our world who still believe the earth is flat!!)

Rather, I suggest you consider this miracle as a faith resource that God has given you for personal purposes (although on a much smaller level than what He provided to the Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 12:1-4) to validate your personal faith in Christ.