Behold
Well-Known Member
So are you medicine free? or do you take any form of pharmakoi? Aspirin? Tylenol? Advil? Pepto Bismol? ay pharmaceutical at all? or do you justify your taking some medication by redefining terms to suit your passion.
And you seem to forget that pharmakeia in its context is magical use of mind altering drugs. It is not taking aspirin or a prescribed antibiotic for an infection.
Readers....
Hopefully, most believers believe that God wants us healthy, as we are His Children, and He is our Father.
What Father, what Parent..... want's His Children to be sick or poor?
Not a very good one.
Imagine...... you visit a friend who is a Christian, that you have not seen in 22 yrs.
They have (2) 10 yr old twin girls.... Lily and Natalie .
You go to see your old friend, their Dad, and they tell you....>"well, my girls are in a small box in the back yard, chained to the floor. I give them one meal every 2 days, and water every day... Im teaching them how to take up their cross and deny themselves, as that is what i read in the bible, somewhere"....
Hummmmmm.
Believers should also go directly to : "by Jesus Stripes we were healed", as soon as a symptom shows up, and before you go to a clinic.
Now, if you just lacerated your Carotid artery with a steak knife after tripping over your dog and falling on the knife...., then pray while you're dialing 911 to get the ambulance......, if. you have time before you pass out from blood loss and die.
Here is the thing reader.... God gave you some common sense and you are to pray and believe.
its BOTH.
One should not cancel out the other because you're trying to prove you are "spiritual".
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Now....What does all that mean?
It means that Jesus healed before the Cross and also through it..., and we are "in Christ", "blood bought".
What else does that mean?
It means that Paul had Luke with Him, as much as possible...and Luke was the "beloved Physician".
Luke was a DOCTOR.
Yeah, really, thats in the "bible".
No kiddin'..
Also, Paul didnt tell Timothy to "pray about that stress and nervous stomach".. He told him to drink some wine for that STRESS.
You know, the same kind that Jesus created when he performed his first Miracle.
So what is the final analysis?
Its that meds and doctors can be God's way of healing.... and a miracle is God's way of Healing,....... and all healing is of God.
Sometimes the healing is instant through Prayer..... and sometimes its a recovery through Prayer, and sometimes its a med that works overnight.
If you are sick, and a pill can solve it,, then take the pill., and "pray without ceasing"....also.