Similarly, nt scholar Walter Wink, a member of the Jesus Seminar, notes that he once thought that his intellectual integrity was alienating him from the world he found in the book of Acts. In fact, he discovered, his difficulty was merely his materialist assumptions about reality.[115] Later he observed what he believed were divine healings, incompatible with the antisupernaturalistic assumptions he had once held; these included a large uterine tumor disappearing apparently immediately after prayer.[116] “Because of that, and many similar experiences with spiritual healing,” he concludes, “I
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