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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 2:59 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Drich Wrote: Which begs the question... If God does indeed let it go to the point where there is a tumor or some proof positive diagnosis of cancer, along with a doom and gloom prognosis, then a short time later it clears up on it's own...
Then what? (If this happens i will make avaiable any and all records i have.) Will this be the work of God or just some scientific anomaly like with the HIV?
Then, it will be evidence of nothing. Unless you have statistics to show Christians are more likely than others to have spontaneous remissions, it's just a spontaneous remission. That happens. We don't know why does not equal god done it. There's a lot of stuff we don't know.
I hope you are one of those that causes us to scratch our heads though. You are irritating as heck with A/S/K, but I'd rather you irritating than dead.
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October 22, 2014 at 3:00 pm
ASK works to find God.. Trials like this/cancer scare prove the God I found is the one I was looking for. Can't have that testing process without the trial itself. I don't want cancer, but I will not ask God to just magic it away. If some greater good comes out of me getting chemo'ed and eradiated then, (right now) that is what I am willing to do. Who knows maybe I can get minnie to come to the darkside.
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:02 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Drich Wrote: Hate to break it to you in two weeks i have a CT scan a very invasive proceedure (which involves my ureatha and a small camera) and some more blood tests... to which i will not get results for at least another week or two after that when all these egg heads put their findings together.
I wouldn't be so quick to judge; you might be thankful to those "egg heads". No sense making idealogical enemies at this stage.
You'll enjoy the CT scan though, he lied. I've not had a camera in there, but I have had what amounted to a sizeable garden hose down it. I had to be within a hundred yards of a toilet for months after.
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:04 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Drich Wrote: Who knows maybe I can get minnie to come to the darkside.
Do that and you will definitely have proved a miracle.
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2014 at 3:11 pm by Drich.)
(October 22, 2014 at 2:59 pm)Jenny A Wrote: (October 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Drich Wrote: Which begs the question... If God does indeed let it go to the point where there is a tumor or some proof positive diagnosis of cancer, along with a doom and gloom prognosis, then a short time later it clears up on it's own...
Then what? (If this happens i will make avaiable any and all records i have.) Will this be the work of God or just some scientific anomaly like with the HIV?
Then, it will be evidence of nothing. Unless you have statistics to show Christians are more likely than others to have spontaneous remissions, it's just a spontaneous remission. That happens. We don't know why does not equal god done it. There's a lot of stuff we don't know.
I hope you are one of those that causes us to scratch our heads though. You are irritating as heck with A/S/K, but I'd rather you irritating than dead.
even if this does not work to convert all of you, could you imagine what would happen if you spent the last six months thinking about something like this and was 'healed?"
This has already happened to me once, and it changed my life. Imagine if it happened to you more than once what it would tell you of God personally?
(October 22, 2014 at 3:02 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (October 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Drich Wrote: Hate to break it to you in two weeks i have a CT scan a very invasive proceedure (which involves my ureatha and a small camera) and some more blood tests... to which i will not get results for at least another week or two after that when all these egg heads put their findings together.
I wouldn't be so quick to judge; you might be thankful to those "egg heads". No sense making idealogical enemies at this stage.
You'll enjoy the CT scan though, he lied. I've not had a camera in there, but I have had what amounted to a sizeable garden hose down it. I had to be within a hundred yards of a toilet for months after.
hmm. still not looking forward to it.
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:12 pm
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On that last point, you're very wise.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:15 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 3:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (October 22, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Drich Wrote: Who knows maybe I can get minnie to come to the darkside.
Do that and you will definitely have proved a miracle.
hmmm
IDK if an eternity of this

would still considered Heaven.
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:17 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 3:05 pm)Drich Wrote: even if this does not work to convert all of you, could you imagine what would happen if you spent the last six months thinking about something like this and was 'healed?"
What, like the miracle of Jack Sullivan's bad back? (cross-linking from my own poor neglected blog, 'cos I can.)
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:18 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Drich Wrote: IDK if an eternity of this

would still considered Heaven.
Then don't do that.
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RE: Trials
October 22, 2014 at 3:21 pm
(October 22, 2014 at 3:05 pm)Drich Wrote: Imagine if it happened to you more than once what it would tell you of God personally? It would tell me to move to a safer location with better doctors
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