In an episode of the Simpsons, Comic Book Guy questions Lucy Lawless about inconsistencies in episodes of Xena. Her repeated answer is āwizardā. When we question why we werenāt healed, why our faithful tithing didnāt solve our financial worries, why ā¦ The standard answer we get is that itās our fault.
In Mark 8:22-26, Jesus was in Bethsaida and heals a blind man. But it was a two-step process ā initially, vision was restored, but it was indistinct; then, it was fully restored. The man was told to go straight home.
An RCG Q&A deals with the ātwo-stepā healing:
Christ could have healed the man by the simple touch of His hand, or even with His words. But He probably realized that the manās faith was weak.
We find that even after Christ had been resurrected, His disciplesā faith was weakā¦
Christ healed the blind man in a āstep-by-stepā manner, rather than all at once, in order to increase the manās faith, before totally healing him.
This is the type of response weād expect, the old not enough faith boilerplate. Of course, the verses in question donāt say that.
Many years ago, I heard a talk by Dr Dorothy (Charles V. Dorothy, once a popular WCG minister, AC professor and researcher, several times was relieved of duty, and has a real PhD). The details are now fuzzy, but essentially the two-step healing process was what would be expected for the disease he believed had caused the blindnessā.Ā This reminds me of adding a peripheral to a computer – get the hardware working, get the right driver; a two-step process. Regardless of oneās opinion about healing, I think it appears more acceptable than ānot enough faith.
Either the RCG writer was unaware of this answer, or, dismissed it as being from a āliberalā minister (an independent thinker).
Never trust one of these hucksters for healing. The can’t and they don’t.
Never saw anyone grow a new arm on, new set of eyes, eardrums or even a neck spasm cured by any religion or cult. Nope, only thing that might get “healed” are mental diseases with physical side effects.
Bob,
“Nope, only thing that might get āhealedā are mental diseases with physical side effects.”
Only the things observers can’t see get healed. That’s a real faith builder is it not?
James declared:Only the things observers canāt see get healed. Thatās a real faith builder is it not?
It’s a miracle of and by itself James how people continue to trust them, and I agree fully with Tin Hat Louie, when he states they can’t heal and don’t.
I wonder if I can share this fact with the viewers, a painful truth, that my X wife got sucked in by them because she developed a profound hearing problem, genetic like her sister. In spite of all the promises of the lord, and WCOG ministries, that failed, a surgical implant from our medical SCIENCE restored her hearing to a point she could hear again to a certain level. Not perfect but functional.