It doesn't but you know that he prayed for the people and they were healed.
The same way I "know" he treated people with medicine?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Where is the proof that he treated people with medicine?
Where is the proof that he didn't?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
so mzbratti,
are you similarly confident when the administration of supplemental chemistry into your blood stream is necessary on a continual basis? Is such a condition a God-supplied remedy even though it is blatantly NOT curative?
Are you willing to comment (using your generally pragmatic approach to things), concerning the child of God altering their body's chemistry by the continual (chronic) ingesting of drugs?
Is this God's purposed blessing for all of us lucky-ducks living in 2008?
Are your liver and kidneys up for the task of processing 'God's blessing" out of your blood stream?
Why do your liver and kidneys want to remove what God has supplied as a remedy?
IMO, these are an example of questions that need to at least be soberly considered before we become too causal about our linking God with synthetic chemistry ingested into our bodies.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath [James 1:19]
so mzbratti,
are you similarly confident when the administration of supplemental chemistry into your blood stream is necessary on a continual basis? Is such a condition a God-supplied remedy even though it is blatantly NOT curative?
Are you willing to comment (using your generally pragmatic approach to things), concerning the child of God altering their body's chemistry by the continual (chronic) ingesting of drugs?
Is this God's purposed blessing for all of us lucky-ducks living in 2008?
Are your liver and kidneys up for the task of processing 'God's blessing" out of your blood stream?
Why do your liver and kidneys want to remove what God has supplied as a remedy?
IMO, these are an example of questions that need to at least be soberly considered before we become too causal about our linking God with synthetic chemistry ingested into our bodies.
so mzbratti,
are you similarly confident when the administration of supplemental chemistry into your blood stream is necessary on a continual basis? Is such a condition a God-supplied remedy even though it is blatantly NOT curative?
Are you willing to comment (using your generally pragmatic approach to things), concerning the child of God altering their body's chemistry by the continual (chronic) ingesting of drugs?
Is this God's purposed blessing for all of us lucky-ducks living in 2008?
Are your liver and kidneys up for the task of processing 'God's blessing" out of your blood stream?
Why do your liver and kidneys want to remove what God has supplied as a remedy?
IMO, these are an example of questions that need to at least be soberly considered before we become too causal about our linking God with synthetic chemistry ingested into our bodies.
all I can tell you is that for the better part of 18 months, the pain i lived with required me to take Norco. without it I couldnt get out of bed.
I took just enough to deaden the pain. I quit taking it when I could function without it.
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all I can tell you is that for the better part of 18 months, the pain i lived with required me to take Norco. without it I couldnt get out of bed.
I took just enough to deaden the pain. I quit taking it when I could function without it.
Do you believe that God can heal you completely without ever taking it? If you don't, then it is ok because some need the help of medication to help them out.
so mzbratti,
are you similarly confident when the administration of supplemental chemistry into your blood stream is necessary on a continual basis? Is such a condition a God-supplied remedy even though it is blatantly NOT curative?
Are you willing to comment (using your generally pragmatic approach to things), concerning the child of God altering their body's chemistry by the continual (chronic) ingesting of drugs?
Is this God's purposed blessing for all of us lucky-ducks living in 2008?
Are your liver and kidneys up for the task of processing 'God's blessing" out of your blood stream?
Why do your liver and kidneys want to remove what God has supplied as a remedy?
IMO, these are an example of questions that need to at least be soberly considered before we become too causal about our linking God with synthetic chemistry ingested into our bodies.
bump for bratti
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath [James 1:19]
so mzbratti,
are you similarly confident when the administration of supplemental chemistry into your blood stream is necessary on a continual basis? Is such a condition a God-supplied remedy even though it is blatantly NOT curative?
No, I'm not. That is, I'm not convinced that the majority of chemical treatments available (e.g., drugs) are good for us on many levels. In our home, we do go for a more natural approach, but I am not above treating an infection with antibiotics. (Antibiotics are curative, however, so maybe they don't fall into your category of "blatantly NOT curative.") However, it seems that these treatments are often the only way to sustain life for many people, or to sustain a life that is worth living. What is the alternative? To allow people to suffer seizures, or to suffer undue amounts of pain? Or to go ahead and die from diabetes and other chronic ailments?
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Are you willing to comment (using your generally pragmatic approach to things), concerning the child of God altering their body's chemistry by the continual (chronic) ingesting of drugs?
Well, my father died from diabetes complications, so while I realize what drugs can do to a person eventually, AND I realize that the drugs in and of themselves offer their own set of health problems, implications and side effects, I am thankful for the life-extending properties of certain treatments. They are not curative, as in they do not cure the underlying disease (obviously only God can heal certain diseases at this point), but they do sustain life by preventing the disease from taking over as quickly as it would without the medications.
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Is this God's purposed blessing for all of us lucky-ducks living in 2008?
Are your liver and kidneys up for the task of processing 'God's blessing" out of your blood stream?
I don't think I equated pharmaceuticals to "God's blessings." And I am of the minimalist school of thought--that we should rely on chemicals of any sort as little as possible. However, I don't believe they are sinful, that the ingestion of those chemicals is sinful, or that those who take medication to reduce pain or discomfort are going against God's Word in any way.
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Why do your liver and kidneys want to remove what God has supplied as a remedy?
IMO, these are an example of questions that need to at least be soberly considered before we become too causal about our linking God with synthetic chemistry ingested into our bodies.
I am not linking God directly to the pharmaceutical industry. However, I do think that He has supplied us with an earth full of remedies--we just haven't been smart enough to discover them all yet. Until we do discover "cures", the only other choices are to allow someone to die without interference, letting nature take its course, allow someone to die in pain, or to help reduce their painful and uncomfortable symptoms until a cure can be found or their death arrives.
Of course, God can also heal them, but I have seen just as many cases where He did NOT heal as when He did.
So...that's as far as I've gotten so far along that train of thought.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
And I am of the minimalist school of thought--that we should rely on chemicals of any sort as little as possible. However, I don't believe they are sinful, that the ingestion of those chemicals is sinful, or that those who take medication to reduce pain or discomfort are going against God's Word in any way.
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