I hope you get better, and I'm sorry to hear about your illness.
Since priests aren't particularly intelligent, I believe he may have had more oil than he realized.
Or he was lying for Jesus. The Catholic Church has a tradition of lying about self-fulfilling oils. Consider the holy oil used to anoint French kings. It is said to have been transported from Heaven to France by a pigeon on its beak, and it then inexplicably multiplied for centuries, enabling clergy to anoint kings.
Since priests aren't particularly intelligent, I believe he may have had more oil than he realized.
Or he was lying for Jesus. The Catholic Church has a tradition of lying about self-fulfilling oils. Consider the holy oil used to anoint French kings. It is said to have been transported from Heaven to France by a pigeon on its beak, and it then inexplicably multiplied for centuries, enabling clergy to anoint kings.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
