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Originally Posted by Baron1710
Absent a real choice one is simply acting as an animal would. They little girl in the video didn't have just a horrible experience she was repeatedly raped at one year old. That kind of damage is so severe that real freedom is not available to them to make choices. She had no emotion, no feelings of right and wrong, the working definition of legal insanity. She cannot conform her actions to what she ought.
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I'll be the first one to admit that the Jesuit maxim:
"give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man" (Ignatius of Loyola, 1557), is true. John Broadus Watson, and B. F. Skinner proved that like animals, humans could be trained, and re-trained if influenced at early stages of life development. Send a young man to the Marines and he comes back different then he went in, also the same is true for a young man who goes to prison, while the end result is different, a mind change whether good or bad is the end result. So, your thoughts above have merit,yet do you believe that a true supernatural experience with the Holy Ghost can change someone's life who have been so severely damaged?
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Originally Posted by Baron1710
The reality we live in is that God does not usually, if ever, heal broken bones outside of medical attention. The psyche is just as much in need of medical help in a situation like this, we are not talking about a cut or a bruise, we are talking about injuries so severe she cannot function in society.
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I understand, but my question points more towards can an individual be restored through the power of the Holy Ghost?
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Maybe the arm was broke, maybe it wasn't I was not there but the truth is many times people blame God and/or give give him credit for things He has never done.
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Maybe two planes crashed into two buildings and three fell down?
Maybe Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed a president with the worst Italian rifle ever made, while sitting sideways on a window sill?
A lot of people believe that God never does anything.
That's the bigger problem, then whether or not a woman could pray for her son in the middle of the street and he be miraculously healed.
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