For Better or Worse
On May 3rd, I went in for Cochlear Implant surgery and had one installed in my right ear. Everyone I talked to felt it was the right course of action, except for me, right up until the end. However, the alternative, the healing ministry that I was considering going to...Well, I was lead to a place of enlightenment about that by reading the
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There was something specific in the book mentioned about pharmacists actually, that I thought was interesting, and correlated to one of the testimonials I happened to read that felt...really off.
In the book, the pastor mentions that the Hebrew word commonly translated as witchcraft is pharmakemia. Being no scholar of Hebrew (which is apparently far more complex than either Greek or English), I have to take his word for it that pharmacists are basically evil. He doesn't explain hows or whys, he simply points out this translation and leaves it up to the reader to correlate whatever. (Personally I took it to mean that taking drugs for recreational purposes or to treat symptoms of something with more tangible underlying causes was the evil insinuated here, although the Pastor claims that the cause of all disease is sin unrepented for, so there are also implications that the pharmacist functions to lure Man away from God with some imperfect facsimile of real healing.)
This little detail came up again when in one of the testimonials claimed that they were healed of a disease by medicine before getting other diseases healed in the Pastor's ministry. But they did not actually say this. What they actually said was that "They were healed by the Devil."
So this got me thinking. In order for this theology to be true, it would have to follow that there are sometimes decisions made by God (whether or not to heal someone) that can be reversed or acted upon anyways by the Devil. This pretty much goes against every shred of teaching the Bible has concerning the adversary, since it's unquestioned that God is the more powerful of the two.
It's what I wanted to get your opinion on when I tagged you that night, but I couldn't come up with a good way to break it to you that this guy was equating your profession with witchcraft. But then you showed me the article and I looked into it more and it basically validated this discrepancy in the teachings by pointing out others.
So thanks again, Fox! ^-^
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I showed you the first two. :P
Adrian, I have a tough skin. I wouldn't have been insulted. <3 Glad you're healing up, too. It might be a while before everything falls into place. You said you feel it's been long already, and it hasn't even been a week! But seriously, time will pass regardless, and soon you'll find it's not a hindrance.
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