As for Jaerock Lee's faith-healing show, "We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

AIDS

M. Emanuel(21 in 2004, Peru)

21-year-old M. Emanuel suffered from frequent diarrhea for 3 years. The lab test provided a definitive diagnosis of AIDS. He thought he had gotten HIV infection through an affair 7 years before. He got fungal infection in his mouth 3 weeks before Miracle Healing Crusade Peru 2004.
But his usual diarrhea stopped and he felt lighter after he received Rev. Dr. Jaerock Lee's prayer during the crusade in Dec. 2004. The lab test showed that his CD4 level increased from 292 to 462. That means significant recovery.
AIDS is so fatal as to be called the pest of today. When HIV invades a human body, it continues to destroy CD4 immune cells among human cells. Finally extreme immune deficiency causes terrible complication leading to death.
But he experienced a surprise that dying CD4 immune cells in his body recovered considerably through Rev. Dr. Lee's prayer. So frequent diarrhea stopped and now he can defecate normally.

http://www.wcdn.org/wcdn_eng/case/case_content.asp?id=36&page=3

The dead do not return to life and any such claim otherwise should be highly suspect. For you to state that she was dead and returned to life with such such absolutism demonstrates the flawed reasoning that is so widespread in religious circles.

Likewise, your claims that millions of people have had their lives changed through Christ would require personal knowledge on your part that this was indeed true. I highly doubt that you have personal knowledge of so many individuals.

Any claim can be made---try making claims that are subject to testing using known scientific methods.

... including the raising a lady from the dead after she was pronounced dead by those who work in healthcare.

... millions of people have had their lives changed through Christ,

and for the better I might add.

It's possible that she was prematurely pronounced dead. There may have still been some brain activity (I assume in most cases they only check for a pulse and breathing) and she was able to recover. God isn't the only possible explanation. (Nor is it, from my point of view, a likely one.)

... millions of people have had their lives changed through Christ,

I could hardly disagree with this.

and for the better I might add.

This part I would disagree with. Personally, I think they're wasting their time and money (and for poor people in 3rd world countries, that's already scarce!). I wouldn't call that a change for the better. On the other hand, for some people it could act as a catalyst for improvement. If that's what they need to be a good person, more power to them, as long as they aren't shoving Jesus down my throat.

John

Videos of these New York events are on-line at Mr Lee's site:
http://www.manmin.or.kr/english/

And interestingly, the TV company that produced the videos is the same one that does promo videos for that raping fugitive Messiah, Jeong Myeong Seok.
Small world:
http://www.gcntv.org/

I think that con artists like these exist because there are so many who are simply credulous and cannot accept rational explanations and perspectives in certain situations of their lives. Certainly, at least one commenter here has demonstrated that, and I read with great enthusiasm yours and other replies to him. I hope he continues to visit skeptical and atheist sites in his quest for "human longevity." Perhaps he has a new-found interest in debating the rational vs. irrational, though my instinct tells me he will simply put rational responses to his rant above out of mind since they are disagreeable.

Kudos on a great post, I've added Daylight Atheism to my bookmarks to visit again!

Carl

But what I wish someone would investigate is this. He is one of a series of "New Messiahs" that the Korean culture seems to be spawning. Jeong Myong Seok would be another, and the granddaddy of them all, Sun Myung Moon. But I'd argue that Kim Il Soong and Kim Jung Il are much the same, only rather than using Christianity as a base, they use Marxism. In each case Korean society seems particularly vulnerable to this type of "Cult of Personality" far more than other cultures, and I am wondering why.

Btw, along with the Rick Ross Institute, one of the more interesting sites on such cults is http://falsemessiah.proboards23.com/index.cgi which specializes in JMS.