If you feel God is calling you to give people medicine then give people medicine. Whatever you feel He is calling you to do. But I would not judge others. You have your money to do whatever you want to do with it. Actually my wife is starting to buy a lot of medicine for her brothers because they are getting older and she says they need medicine. I do not see any connection between that and giving people Bibles or other teaching material.
Every pound (or dollar) spent on a Bible is one not spent on welfare, clean water, and medicine.
If you go to YouTube you will find a lot of testimonies on there of people from many different ministries that were healed of AIDS. Some of them are a little long up to 12 min. But you can look at the testimony yourself. If as you suggest they are "soul-sucking liars" then science tells us you will see that in them. The police tell you that there are ways to know when someone is lieing. Even the most professional of con artists. Perhaps first you could do a search on some research for how to tell when somone is a "soul-sucking" liar.
The soul-sucking liar is the one telling them to give up their meds. The poor and the desperate are just that: desperate. I don't for one minute blame them - rather, I blame the wicked individuals who fool them into replacing proven medicine for baseless faith healing, leading to unnecessary suffering and death.
I don't doubt that there are testimonies. There are testimonies for everything. There's nothing new or special about that. The interesting thing, though, is that there's no actual corroboration for these testimonies. Yes, I'm sure someone genuinely believes that their HIV/AIDS has been cured by the power of Jesus - but has it? Their testimony tells us nothing about whether or not these people are
actually cured, which is the only thing
I care about.
It seems to me that people who claim there is no eternal life and that our soul is destroyed when we die. Those are the ones to avoid. Even the Bible talks about people that will perish in their sin. So the whole thing is to avoid the people who claim that in the end they are going to perish and their whole life is going to come to nothing.
No one knows what happens when we die, but it's rather more likely that we'll cease to exist than we'll float off into some paradise - it's just so
human to replace a fear of death with the empty promise of happiness.
That it will be as if they never lived.
Err, and what about your friends and family? What about your lasting achievements? What about every life you touched while you were alive?
Seems like sort of a waste to me, to live your whole life and not accomplish anything with the life that we have lived. For it all to come to nothing.
Speak for yourself. The work I do creates technologies that alleviates suffering. Even if there is no afterlife and we simply cease to exist upon death, I'll die a happy man knowing I've helped my fellow man. If you think that's a waste, then I feel sorry for you.
