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Originally Posted by crakjak
Didn't Tom Barnes teach trusting God for healing rather than going to the doctor? Worked for him, lived to a ripe old age.
Use of doctors and medicine is greatly abused in our culture, the human body has much greater ability to heal itself than many give it credit. Matter fact, much of the bodies natural healing ability is destroyed by medicines today.
But if you break a leg, get injured in a car wreck, hopefully a trauma center is close by, medical science does a great job of saving lives.
Most threatens to our health is self imposed by unhealthy habits, in diet and activity. Lose that extra 40 lbs and you will be amazed at how healthy you suddenly are. Not with crazy diets, that don't work, only make you fatter. Get the old book, "Fit for Life" eat the menus in it for two years, and I guarantee you'll feel 10-15 years younger and stronger.
Most people eat garbage, nutrition wise, and expect doctors to fit all their health problems with medicine. Doctors treat the symptoms, that cause side effects, then treat the side effects, all to try to keep folks alive, but it is a losing battle, due to diet and activity!!!
We all know it is true, we just have so much emotional issues we don't have the ability to do what we know.
I am trying, and somewhat succeeding in doing something about it, lost 30 lbs over three years kept 20 of it off, working on another 20. When I follow the "Fit for Life" plan it is easy...and I fill satisfied.
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I completely agree with his and people should try to do more for themselves. However, that would be different than a "Don't go to doctors or go to hell" doctrine.
And I am sure that none of them say "Don't go to doctors or go to hell" but they also say standards are not salvational but you supposedly go to hell if you quit doing them so I believe in trusting God for healing, but the custom in the church is more important than the doctrine they teach as far as whether people will fear hell over their choices or not.
I don't even have a problem with people wanting to live standards as principles they believe in. It's the salvational aspect (holiness or hell) whether taught by doctrine or culture or example that I really take issue with.
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