[Faith-talk] Healing, or not being healed

[Jenny Keller]

I didn't take it like that.  I am glad that I was given encouragement and a pat on the back for coming back into the fellowship of the church.

One of the main reasons I left the church was not only because of the healing cock and bull, but also that a preacher said that I was being punished for some sin, that I had no clue what it was, because I asked him why my mother was abusing me, and why GOD allowed it to happen.

I'm sorry I didn't make that more clear in the first post, but that is the other reason I walked away.  It was impossible for me to believe in a GOD that would allow a child to be abused for all of her life for some sin that she knew nothing about, and that a GOD who would punish me like that period, was not a GOD I wanted to believe in in the first place.

I was getting two different messages.  

1.  GOD is a loving merciful GOD who forgives our sins, hence the death on the cross of our savior.

2.  GOD was punishing me for something I didn't even know what I did wrong by letting my mother beat, mentally, and emotionally abuse me.

3.  I didn't have enough faith so I didn't get my sight given to me when I went to various healers or healing services.

those were contradictions that a struggling 16-year-old with a perforated eardrum due to her mother's strike to the side of my head just couldn't handle and wasn't willing to try to understand and believe in.

I'm glad that I am given credit and blessings for coing back into the church.  I'm just sorry it took me so long to get back to the church that I belonged in in the first place.  Too long.

Jenny
On Apr 28, 2012, at 9:25 PM, David Andrews wrote:

> I normally try and stay out of these discussions, as I am not very religious.  But, Tina I have to say I object to what you said to Jenny.  I think she was forced away from her church by the people who were there, they blamed her for her situation not the people who caused it.  You then justify that by praising her for finding her way back and not falling away.  It feels to me like your statement condones the way she was treated.  She should have been invited back, or never driven away in the first place because of something she couldn't control.
> 
> This all touches on the subject of why the list was started and its purpose.  Basically, some people are not treated well by churches because of their blindness, we sinned in another life or whatever.  It was intended as a fafe place where people could help each other and move forward.
> 
> Dave
> 
> .  At 08:09 PM 4/28/2012, you wrote:
>> That's great that you found your way back Jenny. i know too many people who have fallen away and never do come back. Good that that didn't happen to you.
>> Original message:
>>> I left the church because of garbage like that, and the final straw was that I was told that my child abuse was a punishment from GOD because of some sin I had committed and needed to be punished for.
>> 
>>> I now know that's not at all the case, but both things made it difficult to want to go to church and believe in a loving Heavenly Father again.  It took a long time to have a strong relationship with him, and to find the right church, that in my belief, teaches the true gospel of Jesus Christ.  It took me from the age of 16 till I was 35 to find where I truly belonged in his earthly kingdom.
>> 
>>> Healing has nothing to do with how much faith you have folks, and the quicker people stop telling people that, the more people will come to know our Heavenly Father and his glorious Son Jesus Christ, and the peace and beauty that goes with that knowledge of them.
>> 
>>> I know what it was like to have no belief in Heavenly Father at all for a while, and it was the hardest time of my life.  I feel truly and painfully sorry for those who have no faith in Heavenly Father, and his love for them.
>> 
>>> Jenny
>>> On Apr 28, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Sheila Leigland wrote:
>> 
>>>> I agree completely. I personally get tired of the implication that because I haven't been healed of blindness or hearing loss that I don't have enough faith. Those who say this don't know me or my relationship with my Lord.
> 
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