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I think that without your cat scan and the availability of modern medicine (not services that result from mumbling to Imaginary Friends) the coughing up of blood would be even more frightening.
It is intriguing to discover why some diseases undergo spontaneous remission; one candidate explanation is in the workings of your immune system, which is so complex as to behave almost miraculously.
But you seem content with a Bronze Age answer. Shame, really. This could have been a blog where you documented your efforts to find out what really happened to you. I would have read that with interest. But this parade of religious fantasy talk is dull. It took alwight to make it interesting, and you have mainly abuse for him.
Stuart
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Without Jesus I would be frightened, I immediately committed the matter to Him and got peace.
We are not against cats or any form of natural science, God is the Creator of all that. He creates nuclear power but not to blow anybody up.
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You have no complaint then if everything is cause and effect and according to natural science. If a midge bites you and the wound tiny as it becomes sceptic [I almost said skeptic ] you may need an amputation to save your life.
I'm not aware of anyone to complain to, but if I were the omnipotent being who caused our human existence, midges, disease and tsunamis, who had failed miserably in a clear duty of care to so many, then I certainly wouldn't be expecting any praise and love, only fear and some pragmatic obedience perhaps.
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I know nothing about blind faith, My faith is alive and real, the Christ I adore and who washed away my sins dwells within. This is what the apostles testified.....we experience first then we check our experience against that of the apostles [I know most christians think it happens the other way around] and praise God our testimony matches. We are full of joy and peace.
If your faith is not blind then what exactly do you see or maybe hear?
Can you perhaps give examples or does it all only happen inside your head?
Just after Christmas a year ago I started to cough blood, the cat showed several small tumours on my lung. The doctors were pleased that the blood, just a few specks then, were bright red [funny things doctors] if they had been darker or rust colour they would have feared cancer. I lost weight rapidly.
At this stage because they did not know the cause or nature of the growths "we've never seen tumours like this before" they decided to monitor.
The specks of blood became blobs, the growths grew, I became more apparently "unwell" other symptoms appeared.
Now I have always believed in divine healing from the very day I was saved, christians are as blind as bats if they cannot see that OT or NT forgiveness is hand in hand with healing, the double cure.
"Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all His benefits, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thine diseases.." hand in hand in the OT
"Son be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee.......arise take up thy bed and walk"....hand in hand in the NT.
When Paul established assemblies they were set in the communities as the "body of Christ" with functions among the members including prophecy and healing and miracles....healing is for all time hand in hand with forgiveness...full salvation.
So I did not need to buy the latest miracle video or the latest blockbuster book nor did I need to write off to the white suited evangelist. I did not even pull out all the concordances and check the references to healing....I believed.
I continued to read the bible according to my normal habit.
I was reading 1 Corinthians and in chapter 7 I read "But this I say brethren the time is short, it remaineth that both those who have wives be as though they have none and those who weep as though they wept not" and the words leapt out of the page at me, you are saved you know how that happens when God has something to tell you.
But what on earth had that to do with me? where is there any healing promise there?
If I had read "I am the Lord who healeth thee" and that spoke to my heart I might have suspected that it was my mind. But I KNEW God had spoken to my need. "let those who have wives be as though they had none....let her who has sickness be as though she ailed not"
So that was our plan of action we were to carry on as though there was nothing wrong.
Now the doctors wanted to hospitalize Tots, had it been for a full blown op I would have submitted to medical advice [we are not to be foolish] my first port had been the Lord, there was no need to get tangled up with "demonstrations" of faith. But this was not for an op for they did not yet know what they were dealing with, this was for all kinds of nasty proceedures involving puncturing the lung and sticking in tubes with cameras etc.....I said "thanks doc but no thanks" I opted for continued monitering.
In November I stopped coughing blood, the cat showed perfectly normal lungs, no growths no nothing. I am back to normal weight full of vim. The cat in February confirmed all clear.
Now if I asked the doctor "doc have I been healed?" I know what he would say, he would say "but my dear you have never been diagnosed with any illness" and that is exactly true.
But I thank God, Jesus my Saviour and Healer.
Amen praise Jesus
By his stripes we were healed!
Awesome!
Delight yourself in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. . Psalms 37:4
Tot: -- There is no such thing as carnal healing of carnal diseases today. – All diseases today in the realm of God, are the healing of SINS of all kinds!! – If you all haven’t been so wrapped up in the Carnal stuff, you would understand what is shown you with the healing of LEPROSY!! – Leprosy simply stands for the disease of unsaved!!
All this phony claim of healing today is strictly from the carnal minded Devil, and all his teachers!! – Miraculous healing is impossible, and the appearance of miracles of any kind is foolish!! – There is only at best, the supernatural healing; - that is only “extremely rare”. – If God heals you and not everyone, that would make Him a respecter of persons, and HE IS NOT!! – If there are so many Christians among you all, why then do so many die of some illness!! – THEY TO, ALL WANT TO BE HEALED, NOT JUST YOU!!
Paul – 031612
Uninformed.
Delight yourself in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. . Psalms 37:4
I'm not aware of anyone to complain to, but if I were the omnipotent being who caused our human existence, midges, disease and tsunamis, who had failed miserably in a clear duty of care to so many, then I certainly wouldn't be expecting any praise and love, only fear and some pragmatic obedience perhaps.
If your faith is not blind then what exactly do you see or maybe hear?
Can you perhaps give examples or does it all only happen inside your head?
Soon, I've just ordered a new box, I've run out.
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Suffering, sorrow and death are not proofs against God Al they are proof FOR God.
God is not at all silent about it, He has warned mankind from the very beginning that this is what sin would bring. He STILL warns, faithfully He warns rising up early in the morning.
Man was never created to experience or partake of evil...evil is not sin, evil is essential to creation but man was not created to partake of it or to have knowledge of it.
Man rebelled...YOU are in rebellion.
The instant God makes you alive once again in the spirit you will immediately understand why it is that God can never establish His kingdom in the world as it now is....for the world is in rebellion against Him and fights against Him. In this age He is calling men and women to come OUT....He woos He calls, He is calling YOU.
You are not more a sinner than the apostle Paul, God showed in Paul that when His wooing fails He has greater weapons in His armoury with which to make men submit to His love.
God often speaks to Tots through birds, the other day [and it is glorious spring time in England, "oh to be in England when spring ahs come again" or something like that]
A silly bird got trapped in the stairwell of our flats, oh it was a darling thing, a finch. Of course when he heard my door banging he panicked and threw himself on the window flapping wildly, he pushed and pushed vainly with his beak against the window pane. I prayed God I could gently catch him set him free.
Gently softly, softly I went wooing and cooing, but of course it was not going to be as simple as that but eventually with patience I did manage to gather him and gently fold his wings into my hands and got him onto the balcony and lifted him into the air and away he flew over the rooftops with a tweet.
He could see the grass and trees and the blue sky but this invisible barrier that prevented him from flying....So people SEE the beauty of God's creation but sin is the invisible barrier...for saint and for sinner ...that will prevent us from mounting up upon wings of joy.
"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free"
Suffering, sorrow and death are not proofs against God Al they are proof FOR God.
Then perhaps just about anything at all would serve as evidence or “proof” of your God in your mind?
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God is not at all silent about it, He has warned mankind from the very beginning that this is what sin would bring. He STILL warns, faithfully He warns rising up early in the morning.
All non-extant entities are rather notable for their silence and lack of physical form, but imo your particular one does however have many people here on Earth who think they know what those sounds would be and seem very keen to convince others exactly what they are.
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Man was never created to experience or partake of evil...evil is not sin, evil is essential to creation but man was not created to partake of it or to have knowledge of it.
Is that a fact? Who’d have thunk it.
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Man rebelled...YOU are in rebellion.
Naughty ol’ Al, thinking I was my own person and not the property of your God to do with as He pleases.
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The instant God makes you alive once again in the spirit you will immediately understand why it is that God can never establish His kingdom in the world as it now is....for the world is in rebellion against Him and fights against Him. In this age He is calling men and women to come OUT....He woos He calls, He is calling YOU.
The world does perhaps seem full of people who consider themselves to be individuals and not just an insignificant part of your God’s ant-farm, ...really, the nerve of some ants people.
He may be a’wooing.....but no, still silence.
I could only heed a god who can at least make some kind of real sounds of His own, but the substituted sounds of self appointed representatives here on Earth somehow doesn’t quite cut it for me, sorry.
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You are not more a sinner than the apostle Paul, God showed in Paul that when His wooing fails He has greater weapons in His armoury with which to make men submit to His love.
All non-extant entities are rather notable for their silence and lack of physical form, but imo your particular one does however have many people here on Earth who think they know what those sounds would be and seem very keen to convince others exactly what they are.
I wonder why you appear just as keen to discuss this each day?
What motivates your curiosity?
Delight yourself in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. . Psalms 37:4
All non-extant entities are rather notable for their silence and lack of physical form, but imo your particular one does however have many people here on Earth who think they know what those sounds would be and seem very keen to convince others exactly what they are.
I wonder why you appear just as keen to discuss this each day?
What motivates your curiosity?
Oh dear, have I become boring?
The rest of my post was OK hopefully.
It may perhaps seem boring to you having to fight off atheists and sceptics who just won't take bald assertion or special pleading for a truth, but for me I'm more interested in all the different answers and reactions than the question. They're always rather unique I find, no two quite the same for just one God.
Aw shucks thanks , ...but perhaps I should get out more.
only if you haven't found the other 70%.
I get mine in bars and hooka lounges, as I do enjoy watching drunks make fools of themselves hitting on chicks, which ironically they pay me for to entertain.
kids don't try this at home, this is an insured musicians union professional.
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