Preaching against Modern Medicine??

[Margies3]

I don't have a problem with someone believing this way if that's their choice. I do have a problem tho with ministers who preach it to their congregations and tell them that if they see a doctor for something, it is sin.

I had a good friend who left our local UPC church and traveled 3 times a week to a church in Indiana because when she visited that church the first time, they convinced her that they were more spiritual than us because of that belief. She wanted to be as spiritual as a person could possibly be. So she decided that since they were better Christians than us (they told her that), then to be a better Christian she would need to be one of them.

One day she found a small spot on her arm. It itched and bothered her, so she scratched it until it came off and bled. And then things grew worse and worse. Before long she started to feel physically ill. She held out as long as she could and finally gave in and went to the doctor. He told her that the thing she had picked off of her arm was cancer. And that now the cancer had spread thru her like wildfire. And that if she had come to him right away, her life could have been spared. But now it was too late. She died about 2 weeks later.

My problem with this whole thing is the pastor who preached something that wasn't Gospel - and it ended up costing her her life.