mark wrote:
All I'm trying to say is that when a person has a kind of supernatural experience(s), it can change their understanding of scripture forever.  Sophiee asked why Dr. Brown doesn't repent even after he's been shown the error of his ways.  Well, from his point of view, maybe he's not so much rejecting what you've shown him as much as he's realizing that the Christian understanding of scripture (erroneous as it seems to you) is validated by his own experiences.  Arikm7 may have turned away from what he received, but maybe Dr. Brown finds it much harder to do that.
If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them," you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for Hashem, your G-d, is testing you, to know whether you really love Hashem, your G-d, with all your heart and with all your soul.

I guess Michael Brown doesn't love Hashem his G-d with all his heart and soul.

עָתִיד הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לַעֲשׂוֹת מָחוֹל לַצַּדִּיקִים, וְהוּא יוֹשֵׁב בֵּינֵיהֶם בְּגַן עֵדֶן; וְכָל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד מַרְאֶה בְּאֶצְבָּעוֹ זֶה ה' קִוִּינוּ לוֹ, הִנֵּה אֶלֺקֵינוּ זֶה; קִוִּנוּ לוֹ וְיוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ