Apparently the friend I mentioned in an earlier post has decided

My friend has decided that belief is not possible. It is very sad to witness this development. To find unending fault with the church, theologians, preachers, evangelists, poorly worked out theologies, the bad consequences caused by domineering personalities making their interpretation of scripture more important than the human being who is asking us honest, hard questions is perfectly understandable. Heck I am the biggest fault finder I know ....... but for this person to lose sight of and faith in Jesus is indeed a great sorrow. One thing I can not conclude and will not let any casual reader of this post conclude is that this person has not reached their conclusion of unbelief in a way that was not fairminded, honest, intelligent and compassionate.
Unbelievers can be of the highest character(as this person is) and to question their motives and attack their reasoning without actually understanding their honest and exhaustive struggle to know the truth actually rebounds to the dishonour of our faith.

It seems that the question of why certain promises attributed to Jesus in the gospels have not been fulfilled, specifically the question of why there are no verified reports of restored missing limbs was the final stake in my friend's heart of faith.
If Jesus said; 'when two or three agree in prayer for anything it will be done for you', or; 'if you ask anything in my name and I will do it for you', then why so many unanswered prayers, why no restored missing limbs? The conclusion this person came to was that Jesus' words, as recorded in scripture, are not true, ergo Jesus is not the Son of God and the religion based on his teachings is false.

The questions honest unbelievers ask are haunting and difficult. Why suffering? Why so little difference between suffering as a consequence of bad behaviour and suffering that is random and undeserved? Why are not the words of Jesus in the Bible actually verified in the lives of devout and serious believer's? If those words are true and verified in believers' lives, then why haven't devout and serious believer's been asking and getting new limbs for amputees', or relief for infants who suffer from diseases and woundings, neglect and unspeakable abuses at the hands of twisted and evil adults, and twisted and evil genes? Why doesn't God intervene?

If all it takes is a good believing prayer, then why aren't Christians making those prayers?

If not for the person of Jesus
I have encountered in scripture,
in the life of my mother,
and in my own spirit
I would stand with my unbelieving friend
and declare my own state of apostasy.

Faith is not easy or self evident. I suggest we have patience for those who struggle to believe but can not. They are not all willfully blind as we sometimes say. Seeing the invisible is no mean feat and can only be accomplished when the gift of new eyes has been given and received.
If someone you know is a person of integrity and unbelief don't question their motives, just ask for your heart to be open to them and for their eyes to be opened to what you believe you have witnessed with eyes that see the invisible.

LH