"Vandergraaf, Chuck" wrote:
> 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?
One might look through some of the voluminous (& often credulous) old
"lives of the saints" for such stories. But for a start, note Lk.22:50-51.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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