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Louise that was called sarcasm you havn't been here long enough to understand it's meaning or intent.
Louise that was called sarcasm you havn't been here long enough to understand it's meaning or intent.
While I realize that it was sarcasm, there are some that can take it as truth and not go to the doctor when they are ill. Some people are that persuaded by what is said on the internet or that gullible if you will.
I am not one of those people, but we really need to watch what we say as we don't know who can be reading and take what you say at face value.
No sarcasm just the truth that sets us free. I have been here long enough to see that some people are intellectuals listening to a mind that is deceptive.
And give unchristian advice to others. Telling someone not to go to a doctor when they are sick is not right.
This is for discussion, not debate. (No hand grenades, please).
Why do we make physical healing such a big deal?
don't go to the doctor that'll go against the will of god cause after all it's his will that you are sick-----RIGHT!?
Wait, so this isn't the red letter edition? I was thinking that because it was in red, these were the words of Jesus Himself...
(Combating sarcasm with more sarcasm is like fighting fire with fire, no?)
I understand what you are saying, Louise, and think it was helpful that you responded to the sarcastic comment made because there are readers in this forum from many places, and even from around the world, that may not have understood the sarcastic comment for what it was (sarcasm), and therefore may have been unintentionally mislead by it.
Which is pretty Michelle what I said, just differently.
She was being sarcastic, so I called it sarcasm because that is exactly what it was.
I am so glad you are not the umpire on my grand-daughter baseball team. You would rather call a home run sarcastic. You are spiritually off base.
So be it.
Oh well, I just believed it and got healed. I''ll never forget that preaching.
FTR, almost no one in this forum was talking about healing until you brought it up (again) to rehash all of the exact same arguments you've been making for years. Just to set the record straight.
But since you brought it up (again), I'll answer it (again).
The above question is foolish and steeped in pride. It essentially says, "I have no need of God". The idea that you serve God for His sake alone might sound super spiritual and give you a twitch in your gizzard when you think about how much you don't need from God, but you might as well re-write the old hymn to say "Great is MY faithfulness".
I mean, an eternity spent in heaven is the thing God thought was important enough to sacrifice His only begotten Son for us, and this question flippantly calls it a "perk".
I NEED everything God provides for me. I NEED His Love. I NEED His peace. I NEED His grace. I NEED His healing. I NEED His forgiveness. And He offers all of that and so much more to us because He Loves us, because He cares for us. I wouldn't want to be the one that flippantly and irreverently calls all of God's gifts and blessings to us "perks"
I am so thankful that God remains faithful even when I don't.
The question above should make us think; It should make us realize that it's remarkably foolish to suggest that we need don't need His benefits. In fact, scripture tells us to not forget His benefits. Scripture even goes so far as to say that to be pleasing to God, we must believe that He REWARDS those who diligently seek Him.
Maybe some people are so wonderful all on their own that they don't need any of that, and they can rely on their own faithfulness. Ballyhoo for them. But I NEED my Father; everything that He IS and everything that He DOES. Without Him, I am nothing.
Not spiritually off base at all. Even she said she was being sarcastic, that is the truth, because she said it was her intent.
A home run is a home run, being sarcastic is being sarcastic.[/quote
Who said it was "her intent" Who is her?
What are you talking about??
Are you still up at bat.
I forgot the whole thing, why are you hanging on to it?
"Coma to my house" I'll give your something else to do. LOL
"Coma to my house" I'll give your something else to do. LOL
No thanks, I have more than enough to do here between my disabled wife and an 11 month old getting ready to start walking.
Mat 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Luk 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Luk 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
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