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• Wacky MSNBC Segment: Lawrence O’Donnell Begs for Viewers While Blasting Beck & Bible

  March 18, 2011 at 3:44pm

  In reply to Gonzo.

  @ABC

  I fear you misunderstand the principles here. Going to a doctor does not exclude the choice of having a child blessed, or for having a prayer for providence to protect him from the illness. In the scriptures, God and Jesus never tell us to sit back and let him do it all. All the way throughout, people have to take the steps as best they can to receive the blessings (or healing, or miracles, or whatever you wish to put there) It’s funny, because even back then, it‘s shown that truly the only ones who see God’s hand in things are those that are willing to look. If you blatantly look past it, you will not see it, just as many that view science as the end all of everything, many say global warming is real. And there are many that don’t as well, but for the sake of the analogy, its the ones that say it’s there that find the reasons (or so they say) for it being real. Again, they say anyone who doesn’t see it is a fool. Now, we say that if you look, you can see God’s hand in all. Again however, unless you look for it, you won’t find it.

  Now, concerning the whole doctor vs. faith thing. If you have a Bible, please go to 2 Kings, 5 and read that chapter. For a little background, there is a Captain for the King of Syria, who was stricken with leprosy, which is a chronic disease from which one in those times could be expected never to recover from. A believer who happens to be a handmaid to the wife of this guy, Naaman (thats the captain), says that its sad that there aren’t any prophets in the land. (Now, a prophet is a servant of God. There’s more to it then that, but using Amos 3:7, lets just call them God’s servants for now) Basically, it comes down to where Naaman goes to the prophet in Israel, and he tells him to go wash. He does this, and is healed, but he throws a fit first, and is basically reminded that if he had been told to do something more then just washing in a river, he would of done it, no sweat. It wasn’t the lack of going and doing stuff, it was the lack of faith there. But eventually he comes to terms with it, washes, and is healed.

  Now, he did the best with what was available, and also, it wasn’t just asking God to be healed, and then being healed. There was action involved. There are instances throughout the Bible where there is healing purely on faith, but for a majority, Jesus and God require us to do, not just ask. Going to the doctor is simply a step that we can take on our own.

  Furthermore, before you go about saying that miracles in the Bible aren’t true, I happen to be a firm believer that God created the rules that govern this world, the physical laws such as physics, chemistry, biology, and so on. I also believe that he works by them, which is why its so hard for people not to see the miracles when they happen to be standing right in front of them. The general thought process is similar to Evolutionary creationism, or Theistic Evolution. I don’t believe in so called evolutionary theory, but there is natural progression in all things as life continues on.

  So please, think before posting a blatantly untrue blanket scenario next time