No Doctors Doctrine?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Sorry, but I still don't see how this no-doctor doctrine is unBiblical.

Are any sick among you? Pray. They will be healed. Bible.

Every good and perfect gift is from above. Bible.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Bible.

If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. Etc. etc. etc. Bible.

Ye have not, because ye ask not. Bible.

Now, if it is Biblical to pray for healing and if it doesn't work use doctors, please show us.

As your faith be it unto you.

Bible doesn't say if you pray and the prayer doesn't work then go an seek medical attention.

Yet Jediwill83 did bring up an interesting portion from one of the Deuterocanonical books.

Originally Posted by jediwill83

Interesting Apocryphal scripture I found.

Sirach 38:1-15 (CEBA)

On physicians
1 Honor doctors for their services, since indeed the Lord created them. 2 Healing comes from the Most High, and the king will reward them. 3 The skill of doctors will make them eminent, and they will be admired in the presence of the great. 4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and a sensible person won't ignore them. 5 Wasn't water made sweet by means of wood so that the Lord's strength might be known? 6 And he endowed human beings with skill so that he would be glorified through his marvelous deeds. 7 With those medicines, the doctor cures and takes away pain. 8 Those who prepare ointments will make a compound out of them, and their work will never be finished, and well-being spreads over the whole world from them. 9 My child, when you are sick, don't look around elsewhere, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you. 10 Stay far from error, direct your hands rightly, and cleanse your heart from all sin. 11 Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice and a memorial of fine flour, and pour an offering of oil, using what you can afford. 12 And give doctors a place, because the Lord created them also, and don't let them leave you, because you indeed need them. 13 There's a time when success is in their hands as well. 14 They will also ask the Lord so that he might grant them rest and healing in order to preserve life. 15 May those who sin against their creator fall into the hands of a doctor.

Still remember as YOUR faith be it unto you.