That wasn't the challenge. I'm not going to hack off someone's leg so you can heal it!
Sorry, I misread your words on that detail.
But, again, how does me saying I personally same more miracles equate to seeing healing everytime I prayed for a person? Let's be honest.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Sorry, it is extremist to think that lack of healing should give one a right for depression. It is not healthy Christianity. No wonder some folks are where they are today. They handled it completely wrong. It's lack of taking everything the bible said about a thing into consideration.
So I didn't have the right to become depressed.
Thanks.
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But, again, how does me saying I personally same more miracles equate to seeing healing everytime I prayed for a person? Let's be honest.
I, too, stand corrected on that. When you said you have never had experiences like mine, you didn't mean that your prayers always work. You meant you didn't experience depression, when they didn't work. Because you know what the Bible really means.
Still. It would be pretty cool to get an amputee's healing on video, wouldn't it?
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Uh, people other than Christians do that. Is that a miracle, too? And is it a greater miracle than an amputee growing a brand new leg or arm?
Feeding the hungry would be a greater miracle than healing severed limbs. In fact, a church fired up to serve and feed the needy as their purpose for being here would be a greater miracle than raising a man from the dead.
So many of us Pentecostals have become so fixated on the fantastic (and often exaggerated miracles) that we've neglected the real and present miracles we're called to both perform ourselves and inspire in the human hearts of others.
It's always a miracle when a man sets the selfish nature of the flesh/ego aside to do that which is a personal sacrifice for the sake of another. Especially when it isn't one's responsibility to do so and they stand to receive no material gain for doing so.
Feeding the hungry would be a greater miracle than healing severed limbs. In fact, a church fired up to serve and feed the needy as their purpose for being here would be a greater miracle than raising a man from the dead.
So many of us Pentecostals have become so fixated on the fantastic (and often exaggerated miracles) that we've neglected the real and present miracles we're called to both perform ourselves and inspire in the human hearts of others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64BOxYpVZpU
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The things you are talking about are not miracles, Aquila. They're just being human. Good humans do that kind of thing, and not just Christians. And some Christians are not very good at it!
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