Sorry, but you are putting personal opinion over what scripture actually says.
Yes, someone who is afflicted should pray and be anointed by the elders. I agree.
No, that doesn’t preclude taking other steps to heal someone. In fact, you are putting a spiritual burden on Christians by adding more to scripture than what it really states.
Your definition of what’s natural and not is also a purely specious one. At what point does natural become unnatural? I suppose I’m allowed to chew the bark of a white willow. Ah, but what if I process it to increase its purity? Is that now stepping over the line? What if I mix it with other naturally occurring substances to make something new? Is THAT sinful?
No, you are putting stumbling blocks in the lives of your fellow Christians. You imply a diabetic is weak of faith if they take insulin? You would rather they suffer, lose limbs, and die from it? Let the children suffer for the sake of acetaminophen. NOWHERE in scripture!
Instead of having freedom, you’d bind the sick with a terrible requirement for them to suffer and die in faith! Why not encourage their faith AND heal them by whatever moral means you can? Tend to their spirit AND body? One does not prohibit the other!
Wouldn’t that be far more keeping with the royal rule to love your brother as yourself?
As usual, your opinions are fully anti-scriptural.
You continue to pick feel good ‘solutions’ to misperceived, or nonexistant problems.
Stating scripture puts no further burden than already existed. The Bible is a plain language handbook of life; ignore it at your own peril, but council others to ignore it at peril of damnation.
And enjoy your acetominifen; probably no other drug has taken as many lives unnecessarily.
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“ At what point does natural become unnatural? I suppose I’m allowed to chew the bark of a white willow. Ah, but what if I process it to increase its purity? Is that now stepping over the line? What if I mix it with other naturally occurring substances to make something new? Is THAT sinful?”
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An utter pile of straw!
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