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Originally Posted by Titus2woman
UH-OH... Larry, I like you... a lot. I was kind of hoping we would not wind up wrangling with this one... but here goes... Can you sincerely say that in your 20 something years of nursing that you never saw someone with firm faith for their healing progress in their disease and die?
I have seen a woman on a vent with tumor and fluid filling her lungs, with cancer eating up all her organs, writing notes to her family telling them not to give up hope because the Lord had promised her her healing... right up until hours before she died.... and others like her. This breaks my heart as we are doing nothing to help people like this understand or prepare for death.
Everyone will die, illness is a part of that... I think that teaching that illness, or the failure to receive a supernatural healing from illness, is the result of a lack of faith is a very cruel teaching.
In all controlled studies to date, faith often does give one an edge in recovery from serious illness... but ALL faiths are equal in their ability to give that advantage... Every story I've heard otherwise was strictly anecdotal.
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T2W, maybe my mind works crazy here, but in cases like this, I wonder if the Lord looks at healing another way.
If the dictionary reads that healing literally means to make whole, perhaps the passing saint could be termed 'healed'...they are finally whole and at rest.
I think our perception of things is often based on our level of understanding and the teaching we have had.
Maybe if we could pause when God speaks a promise and consider that the answer may not show up quite like
we think.
I don't know...maybe I'm off on this...just my thoughts...
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