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To: Jim 0216

God is not your personal vending machine. Don’t you understand the damage that is done when folks are told God will take away any bad thing in their life? When the bad thing remains, who do they blame? Who do they get bitter of? Who do they turn away from? God very often doesn’t give us what we demand of Him. Do you think the apostles lived free of illness and poverty?


10 posted on 05/23/2016 4:56:27 PM PDT by Zirondelle ("disce aut discede")
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To: Zirondelle

Scripture, not circumstance, is the basis of doctrine and truth and you fail to glorify God and hinder those who look for God’s blessing if you teach any thing else as the basis of doctrine and truth. If you can’t explain something, fine, but don’t teach others doctrines of your own contrivance.


13 posted on 05/23/2016 5:03:38 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Zirondelle; Jim 0216
God is not your personal vending machine. Don’t you understand the damage that is done when folks are told God will take away any bad thing in their life? When the bad thing remains, who do they blame? Who do they get bitter of? Who do they turn away from? God very often doesn’t give us what we demand of Him. Do you think the apostles lived free of illness and poverty?

Which is exactly correct.

The problem is that the blame is then laid at the feet of the person suffering.

Lack of faith.

Weak faith.

Generational curses.

Sin in their life.

So they're sent on a mission to try to figure out what's *blocking* the healing and all their focus is on everything but Christ.

The damage that can be done with that kind of thinking, that if you don't have the healing you are asking for, it's because you're doing something wrong, is SOOOO destructive.

40 posted on 05/24/2016 4:49:26 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Zirondelle; P-Marlowe
This one short sentence is possibl7y the most devastating refutation to an heretical urging I've ever seen at FR! It is brilliant: "God is not your personal (magic, as P-Marlowe put it) vending machine."
63 posted on 05/24/2016 2:37:49 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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