Originally Posted by NotforSale
Where did I say that I have abandoned Faith? I have Faith, every single day. I just don't believe in YOUR kind of Faith.
Your Faith wants me to continue in the hopeless realm of accepting things that never happen. This not only discourages countless people, but shows how Faith is abused and misrepresented by Religion(s).
For 36 years, I have been in more prayer lines than I can remember, with preachers yelling and screaming for people to come and get their healing. I was even a pastor for almost 20 years, laying hands on the sick, hoping for the healing that was supposed to happen; yet, I have never observed 1 healing. Not even 1!
People would stand and shout that they were healed, but I watched these same people a few days or weeks later, go right back to square one; no healing.
Shall we talk about Prophecies? It is so easy to say something when the emotional clock is ticking, especially during an Apostolic service where people ride the back of their feelings. But when the chips were down, these same Prophecies went by the wayside, never to be really talked about again. People just acted like they never heard it, or they made excuses of why the Prophecies didn't happen.
I remember when a Foreign Missionary came to our large Church, boasting of all the great healings that took place in Africa while he was the pastor there. Later on, when we had moved away from that Church, my new pastor, who has been in the UPCI for 70 years now, told me that those stories were all made up, and that this man was no longer in the UPCI.
I danced! I shouted! I was elated that God could grow new legs on a young boy who was born with no legs! My Faith went through the roof, and I told everyone about this man's stories! Then I find out, it was nothing but LIES!
Mike, that's the Faith you can have, but I no longer tell and give people outlandish ideas that leave them sick after they are prayed for, where they think they are still ill because they lack Faith! This is total manipulation and the tactic of Religions fury when we question why something didn't happen, when it was supposed to happen, "IF", we have Faith!
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