Witchcraft = medication

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Originally Posted by Rico

You make it sound as if people are required to go see a doctor because it's common sense to go see one. For people who won't see a doctor, it's a matter of faith of to them, even if it doesn't make sense to anyone around them. I've known five people who have gone out "trusting God." They chose to take that route, and it cost them their lives. For you to come along and refer to their beliefs as ungodly is an insult to these people's faith.

That is a risk I am MORE than willing to take! There is a knee jerk response to any common sense opinion among many of our people and the above is certainly a great example of that. NO consideration is given to the bigger picture which is this..Many people , especially YOUNGER people EMULATE such stupid choices and decisions thinking that they some how are as spiritual or what have you as the idiots that you mention above. They made very selfish self serving choices not considering the affect that their choice may have on others. That is a stupid choice and YOU YOURSELF point out what the cost of that decision was >>>THEIR LIVES! (Incredible that ANYONE could defend such a costly misjudgement, only in Pentecost!)


Just recently a Pastor died from the results of "Trusting the Lord" with a simple boil on the back of his neck, which became infected, then the infection went into his BRAIN and killed him. Do YOU think that the young men and women of that church and others in the area will not be tempted to EMULATE such a decision thinking that this was the SPIRITUAL decision to make? Do YOU think it is insulting to point out in the hearing of any who God might bring into contact with your voice that this was a FOOLISH, COSTLY ERROR IN JUDGEMENT? (Oh wait, you already kind of anwered that didnt you by reacting to my doing that....)

There are too many women with dead babies, too many kids with dead parents, too many wives with dead husbands too many husbands with dead wives to turn a blind eye to this false doctrine and fail to speak up against it. It is after all as YOU so honestly admit a doctrine that costs LIVES!

My mind goes back to an encounter I had with an evangelist who now pastors a very large and thriving church. He had just finished revival in a church that is given over to the kind of nuttiness that you seem to hold in high regard. I asked him how it went. He told me he will NEVER go back there again, they are guilty of innocent blood. I thought he was kidding, just a joke that didn't go over very well and said "What do you mean?" He then described to me his last night there in the Pastors home when they brought out the photo albums, and had a few pages devoted to a most ghoulish collection of photos. Seems the daughter in law who was "Trusting the Lord" had her baby at home shunning any medical care, (One of your noble choices I am sure...) And there were complications in the birth process. None of the "midwives" (read ladies of the church who "don't know nuthin 'bout birthin' no babies") did not know what to do, the baby died shortly after delivery, and the whole family gathered around the bed with this corpse of a baby all dark grey from oxygen deprivation , on a blanket, all of them with their hands raised in worship as one of them commemorated such a holy and tender moment of their "Trusting the Lord" resulting in the death of this infant with a camera. He told me that he wished he had just a little more gumption and he would have called the authorities on the whole lot of them.

The Knee Jerk reaction here being along the lines of "Do you mean to tell me that because my ____________ ( Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle, Aunt, Mama , Daddy YOU fill in the blanketc.) Failed to have wisdom in any point that they were WRONG??? HOW DARE YOU CALL MY___________________WRONG!!!!!

But the truth remains that WONDERFUL and HOLY People can make stupid errors in judgement and their memories are NOT well served by covering them up. God has given us quite a pattern of pointing out the good AND the bad decisions that people make. Not taking common sense care of your body which is the temple of the spirit of God is WRONG any way you paint it.

My question to you is how can you for even a split second honestly defend such ignorance? You must have a very skewed sense of the effect decisions made by a member of the body of Christ have on the rest of the body. Then again, you may not have a vision of the Church as a Corporate Entity but rather just a bunch of islands to themselves.

Don't know...don't care.... Very silly to defend LIFE COSTING ERRORS!