Faith healers, energy medicine, and chiropractors
- Is belief in faith healers, energy healing, acupuncture, or reflexology compatible with faith?
Relayed from the chat: is there a biblical issue with faith healers like Benny Hinn, energy healers, acupuncture, and reflexology? The hosts draw the line at where you put your faith: trusting something other than God for healing is the problem, but believing God designed the body with points that respond to pressure is not inherently ungodly. The talk extends to chiropractors and the 'gray area' of obsessive dependence on treatments, plus a principle against complaining ('do it without complaint').
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Is the devil after you? Oppression versus circumstance
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Asked for context on the docket question, one host describes his and his wife's sense of being attacked from all sides — finances, vehicles, family — while stepping into what they believe is God's path, and asks whether it's the enemy or just life.
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Why people ditch God
- Why do people ditch God?
Reading a Christian Post article by Robin P. Shoemaker, the hosts work through three reasons people leave faith: bad events that wreck a life, bad representatives of the faith, and bad morals that collide with sexual freedom.
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Sidebar: spiritual gifts you would not want
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The second sidebar: which spiritual gifts would you refuse? Tongues and prophecy top the list, with Ezekiel's watchman ('his blood is on you') terrifying one host; Boova says he…
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Deconstruction: Nicodemus, demolition, or examination?
- Is deconstruction like what Jesus did to the Pharisees, or is it more destructive, and why?
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