Jeremiah
17:5 "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
17:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."
2 Chronicles (King Asa's diabetes)
16:12 "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign."
James
5:013 "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
005:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much"
Sorry, i'll take surgery over psalms every time.
Well, I have read your Scriptures, but dont read it the very same way as do you...I would be willing to venture to say, that most Freepers, also do not read it the same as you do...most Freepers, at least the ones I have seen posting, will go to modern medical doctors and avail themselves of every modern medical technology...I am on one of the Freepmail lists, where prayer is requested, and it seems that the greater percentage of them are from folks who are having a medical crisis...and tho they are requesting prayer, they are also involved with doctors and modern medical technology...often we get updates of what the doctors said, or the progress that is being made in a conventional modern hospital...so tho they are requesting prayer for a medical problem, prayer is only one adjunct of their treatment..they are all seeking treatment and cures from modern medical doctors, and availing themselves of all modern medical technologis, and are requesting prayer to work alongside of that modern medical technology...
So, I would have to say, they also do not read these same Scriptures in the way that you do, believing these Scriptures are forbidding men, to avail themselves of modern medicine...
However, to each his own, and you have chosen to forego modern medical technology, and modern medicine, in favor to alternatives...I just see you as being in the minority here, and that others just dont read and understand these Scriptures in the same way as you do..
However, I am grateful that you have posted the Scriptures that you feel give support to your own beliefs...thanks...