Do True Believer's Still Cure Leprosy By The Laying On Of Hands?

[Cammmpbell]

I know they still handle poisonous snakes:

 

[uscitizen]

Naah they just have the leper place their hands on the TV set while a rerun of a televangelist show is running.

 

[slackjawed]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

 

[Cammmpbell]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

 

[Caroljo]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

There are translations for this, and places you can find the MEANING of what was said. But you take everything literally, and you have no idea what the meaning really is. But it gives you something to talk about and just more to bash Christians about. You're slime, but most people here know this.

 

[Cammmpbell]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

There are translations for this, and places you can find the MEANING of what was said. But you take everything literally, and you have no idea what the meaning really is. But it gives you something to talk about and just more to bash Christians about. You're slime, but most people here know this.

Yeah....most Christians don't know three verses from the bible but they are willing to give up their independence to some bible thumping preacher. There are 162 mentions of hell in the new testament, 70 by Jesus himself. If I even had an inkling that there was any truth in it I sure wouldn't leave one word out. I can read.

 

[uscitizen]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

There are translations for this, and places you can find the MEANING of what was said. But you take everything literally, and you have no idea what the meaning really is. But it gives you something to talk about and just more to bash Christians about. You're slime, but most people here know this.

So the snakehandling preachers and such are slime too?

I was raised up in a church where going to a movie was a sin, dancing, etc was a sin.
But now in that very same church it is not a sin?

It is Sarah Palins denomination.

I believe lying to people to control them is a sin.

 

[newpolitics]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

There are translations for this, and places you can find the MEANING of what was said. But you take everything literally, and you have no idea what the meaning really is. But it gives you something to talk about and just more to bash Christians about. You're slime, but most people here know this.

This passage is known to be interpolation, and therefore, not authentic.

 

[Avatar4321]

The sick are healed. Just because you deny it, doesn't make it less true.

Stop denying the power of godliness and repent.

 

[Caroljo]

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

There are translations for this, and places you can find the MEANING of what was said. But you take everything literally, and you have no idea what the meaning really is. But it gives you something to talk about and just more to bash Christians about. You're slime, but most people here know this.

So the snakehandling preachers and such are slime too?

I was raised up in a church where going to a movie was a sin, dancing, etc was a sin.
But now in that very same church it is not a sin?

It is Sarah Palins denomination.

I believe lying to people to control them is a sin.

I do have to agree with you on this....My uncle was a Pastor in a church that believed these same things. My cousins couldn't go to movies, dances, play cards...but now it's ok. A lot of what church's believed, and some still do, were all man made laws, not God's law. No place in the Bible does it say these are sins, but yet they denied these things to their followers. This is why I'm not a member of any "denomination". I read my Bible, I'm involved in Bible study with others, but we meet in our homes. I believe i'm getting just as much, if not more, out of doing this than going to a church that restrict people in their beliefs.

You don't have to go to a church to be a believer.

 

[waltky]

Nah...

... ya not s'posed to touch a leper...

... `cause den ya'd be unclean...

... an' get kicked outta the camp.

 

[LittleNipper]

God works in a variety of ways. He may bring about spontaneous healing. He might use a doctor. It really depends on what the message is that God is sending to an individual or the persons surrounding that individual...

 

[Mr. H.]

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

What Is Reiki?

 

[waltky]

Leprosy makin' a comeback in Malawi...

Leprosy Resurfacing in Malawi
December 17, 2015 — Southern Malawi has seen a resurgence of leprosy, which was believed to have been stamped out in the country in 1970. The disease has been reported in five districts since 2011, including the capital, and the caseload continues to grow. Malawi’s leprosy-free status does not mean the disease was ever totally eliminated. In 1994, the World Health Organization defined leprosy-free status as having less than one case per 10,000 people.

Increase in cases

So far this year, the government has registered new 629 cases, up from 554 cases in 2014. Leonard Mawaya, program manager for the Department of Leprosy and Skin Diseases at the Ministry of Health, attributes the resurgence to complacency. He said people thought the disease was gone and funding was cut. “Even the program’s office has got one vehicle catering for the whole country. So for us to do supervision from North down to South becomes very difficult. And for the rest of our officers, only one or two have got motor bicycles while the rest have to borrow,” Mawaya said.

A patient shows the effects of leprosy on his hands in Myanchaung Leprosy Hospice, Halegu township, Yangon Division, Jan. 21, 2014. Southern Malawi has seen a resurgence of leprosy, which was believed to have been stamped out in the country in 1970.​

Leprosy is far from the biblical plague it once was. The skin disease is caused by bacteria. It is infectious, transmitted via sneezing and coughing, but it is now treatable. The WHO recommends a multi-drug regimen that makes patients unable to transmit the infection after just one dose. People in Malawi with the disease can receive outpatient care in all five affected districts.

Diagnosis carries stigma

One man, who asked that VOA not reveal his name for fear of being stigmatized, said he was diagnosed last August. He went to the hospital because he had a light patch on his skin that felt numb. He said the doctors put him on treatment right away and he has seen great improvement. But the diagnosis can still mean discrimination. Patient Agnes Mbewe said people who know about her leprosy diagnosis are avoiding her because they say it is contagious and she may spread the disease. I feel sorry for myself, she said.

A nun tends to a 65-year-old leprosy affected man, at the isolated village of Nigua in the Leprocomio (Leprosys hospital), south of Santo Domingo[/cent6er]

Without treatment, leprosy can be disfiguring and lead to complications like loss of feeling, permanent nerve damage and muscle weakness. A Catholic parish in southern district of Balaka is providing food and shelter to 23 people severely disabled by leprosy. Skin disease specialists met recently in Malawi. They said leprosy escalation can be contained within two years but to do so, an additional $16,000 in funding per month is needed.

Leprosy Resurfacing in Malawi​

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[hobelim]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Exactly as when one person is touched by another person through the spoken word, when Jesus healed by touching someones ear for instance it was not about him literally and physically touching an ear and then healing some physical disease. Even as cleansing the lepers was not about curing leprocy, giving sight to the blind was not about restoring vision, healing the paralyzed, sick, or crippled was not about reversing physical illnesses or disabilities, and raising the dead has literally nothing to do with biologically dead corpses coming back to life.

You are only deriding that which scripture is not about and in the process proving yourself to be quite the putz.

 

[Fueri]

I imagine we could find a true believer that believes in just about anything.

We found millions of true believers that thought obamacare was going to save them 2500 a year while insuring more people. If you can find someone crazy enough to believe that you can find someone to believe just about anything.

 

[aris2chat]

If early stage, the cure is laying on of antibiotics for 6 month

 

[The Irish Ram]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Signs were for a time. Raising the dead, Paul being bitten by a poisonous snake and surviving, casting out demons. All signs to prove that Christ was indeed who He said He was. Billy Graham has probably brought more souls to Christ than any one on earth, yet he raised no one from the dead, or replaced a limb, or cured the blind.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Broad brush? Maybe you are pentecostal and consider them "true believers".
I am not a christian, yet am astute enough to know they are not all the same.

Have you observed the Catholics handling snakes? How about the Lutherans? Angelicans handle snakes?

nice troll thread though, you go boy....

Makes one wonder where they got the idea doesn't it?

Mark 16
17"These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;"
18 "they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

There are translations for this, and places you can find the MEANING of what was said. But you take everything literally, and you have no idea what the meaning really is. But it gives you something to talk about and just more to bash Christians about. You're slime, but most people here know this.

So the snakehandling preachers and such are slime too?

I was raised up in a church where going to a movie was a sin, dancing, etc was a sin.
But now in that very same church it is not a sin?

It is Sarah Palins denomination.

I believe lying to people to control them is a sin.

It is a shame that you weren't raised in a church that explained the Bible. King David, the apple of God's eye, danced. Our Father is so anxious to love his children, that if one eats to honor God, God is pleased. If one fasts to honor God, God is pleased. Avoid religious dogma. Christ started a church. Man has shattered it into hundreds of denominations, by interpreting God's word. Do your homework so that you'll recognize false doctrine when you hear it. Then dance.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Nah...

... ya not s'posed to touch a leper...

... `cause den ya'd be unclean...

... an' get kicked outta the camp.

Good advice for a Jew wandering in the desert for 40 years. Christians aren't under the law. We'll kick you out of camp for much less......