Did Prayer bring this man back?
Prayer is the central theme of one story we’re doing for the Christmas Special here at FOX called, Miracles: Fact, Fiction or Faith. Down in Florida, cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall supposedly brought a man, who had died of a massive heart attack in the emergency room, back to life by prayer. The story seemed amazing to me because I first heard mention of the story after Dr. Crandall, an evangelical Christian, gave a presentation to a group of doctors (also Christians) explaining what had happened. He used medical records and charts to prove his claims.
After interviewing Dr. Crandall, the patient and the patient’s family, I found it very hard not to believe something miraculous happened in that ER. We’re told that after 30 or 40 minutes of electric paddles and other methods of trying to resuscitate the patient, the hospital called Dr. Crandall down to the Emergency Room to give a final say of whether to give up efforts. Crandall arrived to find the patient not breathing and unresponsive to the electric volts. His extremities were black, indicating no blood was flowing through his body. Dr. Crandall said, "OK, let’s call it," which means to tell the morgue to get ready for another guest.
As Dr. Crandall left the room he said he heard God’s voice telling him to go back and pray for that man. He did. He prayed "in the name of Jesus…" He told the staff to give one more shot of the paddles. They did. Immediately, the man’s heart began to beat. His hands began to move, and he once again began to breath.
You’ll hear more details during the Christmas Special, and they are compelling. But did prayer bring that man back? Or was it simply something that has an unknown, medical explanation?
Lauren Green serves as a religion correspondent for the FOX News Channel. Prior to this, Green served as a news anchor for “Fox and Friends,” where she provided daily news updates and covered arts for the network.
This is something that I found interesting and have copied and pasted for your thoughts.
For skeptics its a medically documented case.
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Yes, it has that power. I was born with fluid in my lungs,our super – brilliant doctors gave me up for dead and doped up my mom to break the news to her that I was not going to live to see morning. Well my mom was so high on the dope that she said "oh well, we still have two beautiful daughters."
Later that night the dope wore off and she realized what the doctors told her and she prayed to God. During the night she saw a vision of what appeared to be the form of Jesus standing with His hands in through my isolette ( I think that’s how it’s spelled ). The next morning the quacks were flabbergasted, they told my mom, "I don’t know what happened but he is healthy enough to go home whenever your doctor releases you."
And He has been right by my side ever since. Always and forever, He never leaves nor forsakes me no matter how far down in the pit I have gone. He is always there to pull me back out and brush me off. I am now 43yrs.old and He is still just as close if not closer than always.
Take care and may God bless you spiritually.
You can do a controlled experiment of a sort: are there similar cases where people didn’t pray, that had similar outcomes? Be careful of selection bias in your choice of cases, please.
What I find really hard to believe is that the ER would try with the electrical paddles and stuff for 30 or 40 minutes!
Yes it most certainly did!!
If you believe in God and the power of prayer then you will accept that this could have been the result of prayer. If you don’t you will simply say that something else caused it.
Our subjective view of the world will be the bias for our personal belief.
They need to ask Dr. Crandall how often he prays for his patients. If he prays for all of them before they die, and this one is the only person who returned from "death" then perhaps it wasn’t the result of prayer, but of good luck.
Anyway, thanks for the post and I’ll have to check out that special.
If you want my vote?
Yes, prayer and faith in God and heeding The Voice of God, brought this man back to life.
So many times we humans want to get the evidence or proof that God is out there and really intrested in or affairs. Then He makes His entrance and we want to doubt and question. There is a limit that I think that we should do this. God does not mind when we want to be sure it is Him acting. How much do we need, though? I really love these type of medical related stories because of the records and notes that are actually jot down and there is real tangible evidence. God wants us to use our brains. He wants us to question. He wants us to investigate. Not to the point that every answer that He has given us is only turned into an onslaught against Him again. Would you want to deal with a class like that or a group or let alone your own kids? No. You would just go along and find the group that is open to you and your responses and willing to give REAL feed back, wouldn’t you. So it is with the Creator of The Universe.
God Bless you and keep you.
No. It was clearly the electric paddles. He came back after that last shot. If it was God then there would have been no need to shock the guy again.
It’s a bit hard to believe, if you ask me, but who knows? And for the record, I’ve been an EMT for 5 years, I dispatch medevac helicopters, I’m constantly surrounded by flight nurses, flight medics and doctors, and I have NEVER heard of a person’s limbs turning black because of a lack of circulation or profusion. Seems a bit suspect to me. i’m also wondering why, with a working code, they had to call this doctor down to the ER. Why wasn’t a doctor already there as they are supposed to be any time a patient crashes in a hospital?
I’d say yes…if He didn’t listen to that little voice in that moment of quietness then that man could have been left for dead.
I will have to watch some of that, thanks!
This is what true faith and obedience is all about Dr. Crandall’s obedience to Gods voice. God is not a liar to promise and not fullfill. Wether it was somethhing that was of unknown medical explaination only God knows. He sent him back inside to pray and give it one more try or that man would have surely been dead if he was put in the morgue so you see it is still a miracle of faith, obedience and prayer His words says faith as a mustard seed can move mountains and a mustard seed is very small that is how important our faith is to Him.