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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
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- In article <1992Dec27.073652.5991@en.ecn.purdue.edu> muehlhau@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John Muehlhausen) writes:
- >that love Him, and they happen for a reason. I would much rather live a
- >short life with cancer and let my increased awareness of my mortality light
- >a fire under my butt for God than to glide through life accomplishing
- >nothing with eternal consequence. God will not give someone something that
- >is not good for them in the long run. If a Christian is not healed of
- >cancer, then they have it for a reason that is beneficial to them as a
- >spiritual being, as promised in the Bible. Paul didn't whine about his
- >adversity, nor did Jesus himself! In fact, they seemed to shake a fare
- >amount of joy out of it!
-
- Well if Paul already had leprosy and it was untreatable for his time, then
- I don't think there was much he could do. I don't think you can bring much
- happiness into your life thinking like this though. If an ailment is curable
- then it should be your (and your physician's) responsibility to seek the
- proper treatment. You have to remember that the OT and the NT were written
- in terrible times (slavery, political oppression), and you have to show caution
- when extrapolating from those times. There are lessons to be learned from
- those times: one of them being that mistakes shouldn't be repeated! If you
- say all these things to shatter to your ego (to borrow the ideas of one of
- the contributors here) for some sense of "spirituality", then that is different.
- There are better ways of doing that.
-
- I wish you happiness.
-