AMANDA: God does perform many resurrections in this day and age, but He wants us to believe with faith. 

BRUCE: And your evidence for this is what?  Because you claim this to be so does not make it so!  You have not provided any EVIDENCE that miracles of any kind occur (e.g., a cause and effect relationship between the supernatural and the temporal world), let alone that any resurrections of the dead (from obvious or biological death, e.g., decapitation, putrefaction, skeletal remains, lividity, rigor mortis, etc.) have ever occurred in the past or present.  Not only was your "resurrection of an embalmed man" story unsupported with any evidence whatsoever (typical of Christian evangelistic rhetoric), but you pretty much shot yourself in the foot when you mentioned the "resurrection" was performed by the South African snake-oil charlatan, Reinhard Bonnke!  You shouldn't believe everything you see on television, Amanda. 

But beyond that, it ALSO does nothing to address my problem, which is that I NEED TO SEE IT HAPPEN MYSELF!  It doesn't matter who it is being resurrected (but I would prefer it were one of the many dead children of "Christian" families I have been involved in during my years as a firefighter-paramedic, or one of the dead New York City firefighters).  If your God really exists, and he really "perform[s] many resurrections in this day and age," then it should hardly be an unreasonable request that I be allowed to be present when Jesus performs just one of these patented resurrections today on behalf of one of his grieving followers!  I want to be one among the "crowd" of "people" standing round in order that I may witness said resurrection, and "believe" and "be filled with awe" and "praise God" as a result of having seen!  (John 11:42, 12:17; Luke 7:11,12,16)

As for your "miraculous cure" from the SYMPTOMS of hepatitis A, Amanda, I can only say that your medical knowledge is clearly lacking.  Hepatitis A is fairly benign and may not present with any "symptoms" at all; or the symptoms may come and go.  The body will also cure itself of 80 percent of all diseases and ailments all by itself, no "miracles" or "prayer" required!  In fact, when dealing with viral infections, medications are designed around helping the body cure itself, because viruses do not respond to antibiotics!  It's interesting that you noted only being cured of the "symptoms" and not the disease itself!  The fact is, Amanda, since you have a need to believe that Jesus is up there acting on your behalf during your times of need, you are always on the look-out for things that you can give him credit for, even when that event does not require anything outside the natural world to account for.  

AMANDA: Would you rather have your wife love you because (for example) you are stinking rich or because she just loves you for who you are?  It is the same for the Christian relationship with God. 

BRUCE:  No, it is not!  The difference is that whether she loves me for being stinking rich (which I most certainly am not) or for who I am is still a choice being made in terms of a direct physical relationship in the real world.  My wife can see me, she can touch me, and when she asks me a question or for help she receives a direct sensory stimulus in response (auditory, visual and tactile).  Thus the "relationship" you claim to have with your invisible spook in the sky is not the same as that which you have with your husband or children, or friends. 

Do you see the problem, Amanda?  No, I don't suppose you do.

AMANDA: God would rather have us believe in Him with no proof than have us believe in Him because He gives us signs. 

BRUCE:  Oh, really?  Then why "give signs" at all?  If we are expected to believe without proof today, then why should the people walking around Palestine two thousand years ago (just a couple days ago in "God-time," right? 2 Peter 3:8) not have been held to the same standard?  And if they were seen by God as "needing to see" in order for them to believe, then why should I not expect the same evidence to satisy my own skepticism? 

Bruce Monson