Yes, as a DC we studied a lot of the dangers of BIG PHARMA educated Allopaths and Osteopaths. But mostly vaccinations and drugs.
I have little faith in big pharma medicine....their drugs kill more people than the diseases that they are supposed to be treating. Profit is more important than cures, which will never be sought by those who make a fortune out of patent medicines. They just want pill popping customers for life.
But none of that has anything to do with God saying you can't give blood because an OT verse speaking of ZAO soul life which refers to oxygen in the blood. What does the "BREATHING soul" breath? 'LITERAL' O2..AIR...which is not spirit. Kind of like when Jesus said he had 'food to eat his disciples knew not of.' He also had the spirit of Christ in Him, which the disciples also did not know of....until AFTER HE WAS GLORIFIED. And it was that spirit which raised his dead blood body from the grave with ZOE life.
I will beg to differ, since the breathing process was started by God when he created Adam. It was “the breath (
nᵊšāmâ....spirit) of life” that God imparted....the animating spirit that is passed on to all newborns.
The original language words translated “spirit” have a variety of meanings....
eg. The Hebrew word “ruʹach” and the Greek word “pneuʹma”, often translated “spirit,” refer to that which is invisible to human sight and gives evidence of force in motion. The Hebrew and Greek words are used with reference to (1) wind, (2) the active life-force in earthly creatures, (3) the impelling force that issues from a person’s figurative heart and causes him to say and do things in a certain way, (4) inspired expressions originating from an invisible source, (5) spirit persons, and (6) God’s active force, or holy spirit. (Ex 35:21; Psalm 104:29; Matt 12:43; Luke 11:13)
As for giving O2 blood or receiving someone. elses blood for ZAO life what did Jesus say?
JOH 15:13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his SOUL life(Gr=psuche) for his friends.
Well, that again is stretching what the scripture says.....a donor is not laying down his life for the recipient...in the US someone paid them money to do that....not exactly what that scripture was describing, is it?
And don't quote STRONG's for the definition of the Greek word PSUCHE. Because he didn't understand the difference betweeen spirit/PNEUMA and soul/PSUCHE either. It's obvious when you study and see he uses both in the definition of soul.`
Youve lost me here...there is no “
PSUCHE” listed for either the NASB or the KJV....Where are you getting this info from?
“Pneuma” is directly linked to air...or breathing, since we have words in English that confirm this....
“Pneumatic” tyres contain what?
“Pneumonia” pertains to an infection in what organs?
“Pneumococci” affects what part of the body? C’mon doc....you know this.
I appreciate your 'link' but really do already understand the medical reasons. My own mother came under severe weakness and walking issues after a blood transfusion. Baffeled our local doctor DO, who actually refered her to Denver for specialist medical care to no diagnostic avail. But while there an aunt talked her into doing a Catholic Novena somewhere in the mountains where you had to climb 300 steps to get to 'the statue'. My dad and aunt had to practically carry her up, but she got miraculously healed. Go figure, I was 13.
She was miraculously healed by appealing to an idol, doing a Catholic novena.....oh please! Which of those are scriptural?....and you believe this?
Then you don't understand what I said. I said Jesus is not doing all this great last days supernatural workings through babies Gr= Pais/babies, or through paidions/toddlers, or teknon/teenagers. He will be doing his work through those who have reached a spirutal maturity level that the church has NEVER seen or reached. That would be as HUIOS or manifested som maturity = to that of Jesus. It will be 'they' who overcome and destroy the last enemy of physical death.
Well I guess you don’t understand what I said either.....
Supernatural gifts ended with the apostles who were the only ones who could pass them on through the laying on of hands.....no one else was authorised to impart the spiritual gifts but them.
If you see supernatural gifts in people today, they are not from God but from the pretender doing his “angel of light” trick.
Paul said that deluded ones hang on to these so called miracles because they believe that God sent them his holy spirit.....he doesn’t do that now, as he has no need to since they were just demonstrations of what would take place on a global scale in the new world to come.
If it is the same spirit as in the first century, that is performing these “miracles” then it has lost its power over the centuries. Do you know how many people go to Lourdes every year expecting a miracle that never happens? Or those who attend faith healing sessions only to have their malady return the next day? That is not how God’s spirit operates....and never has.
And for those very same reasons, neither do I worship the 'Johnny come lately sales pitch' of the founders of JW, Mormonism and Christiandom. IMO no ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS system today has arrived. All fall short of the endtime church that will take us to God's intended goal.
Jesus has appointed a slave to feed his household.....is it you? (Matt 24:45)
Mormons do not come to people with God’s word, they come with an addition that they claim is inspired.....is it? I know it plagiarizes the KJV word for word in some places......and they never mention the kingdom of God in their short missionary life either.
I have to ask....are you out on a limb all by yourself with no brotherhood who supports what you believe? With whom do you meet for worship? Who is the “ek·kle·siʹa,” for you today?....those who disagree with your particular brand of “Christianity”? Is that how God operates? If someone comes to you and asks “who today, teaches the truth of God’s word?”, where would you send them? In the first century, God did not expect the Jews to just read the Bible and listen to Jesus preaching only to wander off and do their own thing. All had to be united in worship of “the only true God” and understand who he is, and what the relationship is between this Father and son.
Only problem for you guys is, that "little power" pertains to the spiritual power of basic salvation from the spirit of Christ, but nothing from the Holy Spirit of God. That's where the Pentecostal and Charismatic 'church' movement took the more recent church to. Still waiting for the fullness of power though.
If you think that the ‘great commission’ was an easy task assigned to Christ’s disciples, then please tell me why no church is engaged in this life saving ‘search and rescue mission’? (Matt 28:19-20; Matt 10:11-14) Christ’s disciples were to give this “witness” about “God’s kingdom” “in all the inhabited earth” before “the end” comes....(Matt 24:14) Where are the churches out there preaching? MIA...it seems...someone else’s job apparently. No one seems to know exactly what God’s Kingdom is.....why is that when it is part of the Lord’s Prayer? How does God’s kingdom “come”? When is God’s will done “on earth as it is in heaven”?
Jesus said he would be “with” his disciples “all the days” in this work that he assigned...so who is he backing if no one else is carrying out that commission? Please explain....
The 'other' only problem for you guys is which NAME is not denied. You think JEHOVAH, and I think JESUS.
One of us is dead wrong......we have to be calling on the right name in order to gain salvation....God’s name was never Jesus. Read Psalm 83:18 in the KJV.....
Jesus has many names, Jehovah has only one.
At Acts 2:21, Peter was quoting Joel 2:32, which if you look it up in the Jewish Tanakh has the Tetragrammaton in plain sight. We have to be “calling on the name of Jehovah”, which is the English
translation of the divine name. If you prefer the
transliteration you can say “Yahweh”.....God understands his name in all languages. Yet we never hear it mentioned in the churches except when they pray the Lord’s Prayer saying “hallowed be thy name”.......but they never use it.