Does God Want You Healed

09-13-12 | Frank Broom

[tired&retired]

Allow me to answer this way. If no other method could stop me from sinning, then yes. However, I use that scripture to emphasize the importance of not sinning. If anything is that important, I’m sure that any human would have the personal will power to stop sinning prior to reaching that ultimate solution.

Thus literal, yes, but only as a last resort if all else fails. After all, That sin will cause the physical death anyway and create much more discomfort in the long run.

In reality, the flesh does not cause us to sin. It is the weakness in our soul that formulates its identity based upon the flesh. Dying daily is the process of losing that identity. Does that mean literally to die? Yes, but not a death of the physical body. It is a death of the false self or association with the flesh.

[D-fendr]

thanks for your reply.

I’d have some quibbles, ‘personal will power’ for example, but I don’t think it worth rehashing to likely end up close to the same place in the end.

[D-fendr]

thanks for your reply.

I’d have some quibbles, ‘personal will power’ for example, but I don’t think it worth rehashing to likely end up close to the same place in the end.

[Revolting cat!]

I know how I’ll be healed, or can be healed, Mr Broom, and it is not by drinking a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc as I did this evening after going on the wagon a few months ago (where I’m staying, by the way, this is just a necessary break), and not by reading the Holy Scripture, or visiting a Christian Church as many well intentioned souls suggest, and not by volunteering to teach reading to children of prisoners as some fools suggest. I know the remedy, it is earthly, and it still ain’t coming.

[tired&retired]

If we are both Bible based, there is a good chance it would just be semantics.