George Murphy wrote,
"Whether we believe that miracles happen or not, we have no business
_demanding_ that God heal (or whatever) by miraculous means. It isn't our
place
to tell God how to do God's job. God can perform a miracle if God wants to,
but
both our experience of the world and belief in God's granting of integrity
to
creation should lead us to _expect_ that in the vast majority of cases God's
work of healing will take place through the course of natural processes (in
which I include the technological application of those processes by medical
art
& science). & in fact that is the best way of understanding the traditional
practice of anointing the sick with oil together with prayer for healing:
Olive
oil in biblical times was considered a medicine & today it serves as a
symbol of
all medicines."
I find it interesting that "miraculous healing" appears to occur only in
"internal" parts of the body: a cancer is cured, vision or hearing is
restored, etc. Can anybody cite a case where external body parts were
restored? For example are there cases where a severed limb was regrown?
Not reattached, but regrown? If not, do we apply the term "miraculous
healing" to healing processes that are not understood?
Just wondering,
Chuck Vandergraaf
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