do religious people really believe?

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I was also a dumbass and denied medical treatment with chemotherapy because I was advised that I was "impeding god" from healing me. Then, when I stopped impeding and almost died: turns out me being sick is just god's will and is probably saving me from a worser fate. Now I'm back on medicine and doing quite nicely

This has actually always weirded me out, when I hear about people denying medical treatment because god will save them. I wonder if those people ever actually read the holy texts they rely so heavily on; god works through human agents all the time, in those things. Why would he not work through a doctor?

Hell, a doctor- an actual educated and trained professional- would be a much more impressive instrument for divinity than the snake oil salesmen that claim divine inspiration nowadays, and the uneducated goat herders who he's canonically worked through.