Quote From: liatsunamiWell let's just say they didn't get better because YOU or anyone else prayed for them. It might be coincidental, it doens't really matter to me. And there may be object ive "truth" but you don't know it, and I don't know it. No one does. And don't try to use the bible or any other religious texts to justify what you say because everything on this earth has been touched by human hands and biases and is therefore imperfect and flawed, and that INCLUDES religious writings.
Now, I am DONE talking religion with people. I don't care what people believe and why. I just want you all to do something USEFUL for people, instead of bantering on and on about who's religion is right and who's is wrong.
If you're so willing to help people than give REAL answers instead of the philisophical and theological discussions. This isn't the place for it. What this forum was for is HELPING people cope with events and feelings that upset them. It's not a place for ANYONE to evenagelize or prosteletize their religious agenda.
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For me religion and the human mind goes hand in hand. I am sure this is true whatever religion you are. I just have told people what has worked for me and if you don't think that is a real answer, than I guess you will just have to do what you will. For me Christianity is the answer, it is the only thing that has helped me many times through my emotional distresses. I just wanted to let people know that there is a way out and it's through the blood of Jesus. I think if I didn't discuss that I wouldn't be giving a person the whole truth about what helped me get through rough patches in life.
I am not a clinical psychologist by any means, but I am not uneducated. I have taken well over 20 hours of college level psychology classes as I was once a psychology major in a liberal arts university. But it didn't really help me. It was missing something, and I found that something quite a few years ago when I gave my life to Christ. I think sometimes we try too hard to find something mentally wrong with a person, and then to find out later that just a little dose of a love that they had never known will cure all things. I don't doubt that there is mental illness out there, but I also don't doubt that some people are just looking for a power greater than themselves. I have read posts on this board that suggested to me that there are quite a few people out there that are looking for that power.
Also I am just defending my maker against anyone that has said he doesn't exist, and if that is evangelizing than so be it. If you are so uncomfortable in reading that, then by all means don't read it.
