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Originally Posted by photon
This scripture too:
17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they 2 will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." - Mark 16:17-18
Could be part of it, a pastor of a church I used to go to and were pretty good family friends with when I was a kid died of cancer for this reason.
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Yup, I grew up in a pentocostalish type church and it was amazing how many people were staunch believers in miracle healings, yet never actually experienced or saw one. I remember a time when a woman our church had been diagnosed with a serious form of cancer, prompting weeks and weeks of prayer. The cancer coincidentally went into remission and everyone was claiming God had healed her... Unfortunately, yet predictably, the cancer returned and took her life a couple years later. I don't recall, but Im sure the explanation by the devout was they didn't have enough faith.
I also remember hearing story after story of "signs and wonders" taking place daily in Africa and other 3rd world regions. The church explanation for this was the believers in Africa simply had more faith than NA christians, while it is now painfully obvious to me as an adult that this was all BS. Easy to make claims of miracle healings in a third world region of the globe where there are much much fewer methods of verifying the claims (or verifying that the person was even sick to begin with).