Why Couldn't Jesus Heal Everybody??

[Timmy]

If you have a "truth" given in the Bible and your "facts" disagree you have to believe the Bible.

Bingo. You have to believe the Bible. It's a command. Believe it, or suffer the consequences. How do we know this? Because it says so in the Bible! Circular reasoning doesn't seem to bother you, though.

Fact: Axes don't float, but we have evidence of it in the Bible - truth has superseded fact.

Fact: Man cannot walk on water, but we have evidence of it in the Bible - truth has superseded fact.

That's different. These are miracles that happened (so it says) a long time ago. We don't have independent verification of them, but never mind. Even if they really happened, it's not what I'm talking about. I am talking about claims of truth in the Bible that affect people today.

Promises, for example. If you do X, God will do Y. That's an example of what you'd call truth. But when people today try to apply it, it doesn't always work. When children die because their parents trusted in the Bible's "truth" and obeyed it instead of taking them to a doctor, I am outraged! When "facts" don't line up with "truth", resulting in guilt, confusion, despair, depression, and death, it makes me sick!

Do you choose to believe that "truth" over the "fact" of a dead child? Do you conclude that those parents must not have had faith?