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Hello fabulous people,

I have recently fallen in love with Georges de La Tours and find so much of his work inspiring. You know how we were discussing whether God inspires artists? She must. I can't think of any other way these works can be done the way they are. The image below tells me how God can heal us. The way I believe god heals us now is a little different than the way I used to believe as a TBM.


St. Sebastian with Lantern by Georges de La Tours

Here we are, with a massive and nasty arrow driven straight through our leg. Pain and blood have mixed and run everywhere. What are we going to do? We cannot imagine how it will get pulled out and we fear to never walk again. The sheer size of it frightens us to shock.

She touches the arrow with her fingers. There is no sense of force or power and you begin to wonder how she will be of any use at all. Then she rests her hand on your knee and whispers a prayer.

I don't know what happens next because well, that is a really scary looking arrow. I imediately thought of god healing us when I saw it. It is not the way I used to think of God's healing powers.

Have a WONDERFUL day!

Zee.

Zee, I think you make excellent points about both how God inspires art and how God is involved in healing. Thankyou for sharing.

I think kudos are in order for the young lady holding the lantern.

She had the presence of mind to wrap her cell-phone in a length of cloth to keep it from being blood-splattered.
I can almost hear the sound of her voice...

"911? Yes, we have a medical emergency... A man has taken an arrow in the leg... No... it's completely through his thigh, just above the knee... Can he walk? No... No I don't think so... please have the EMT's bring a stretcher... Where are we? uh... we are at the Hyatt Hotel, conference room level... if you see the Comicon 2012 signs, you're there."

zeezrom wrote:The way I believe god heals us now is a little different than the way I used to believe as a TBM. . . I imediately thought of god healing us when I saw it. It is not the way I used to think of God's healing powers.

Don't keep us in suspense. How did you believe God heals us when you were a TBM, and how do you believe God heals us now?

Dr. Shades wrote:

zeezrom wrote:The way I believe god heals us now is a little different than the way I used to believe as a TBM. . . I imediately thought of god healing us when I saw it. It is not the way I used to think of God's healing powers.

Don't keep us in suspense. How did you believe God heals us when you were a TBM, and how do you believe God heals us now?

Old Way:

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Prophet Isaiah

New Way:

So-- correct me if I am wrong-- Your religion is Neo-Hellenistic Pagan?

Unique. Socrates would roll over in his grave.

So, what's the difference? Help me out here.

Dr. Shades wrote:So, what's the difference? Help me out here.

I will try. I'm flying by the cuff here. Well, I'm also flying by the seat of my pants, as your aviators might say.

In my mind, I believed Isaiah was healed when the hot coal was touched to his lips. It was necessary for him to be given a punishment that fit the crime of evil speaking. This is how I saw God's healing methods.

I no longer believe that God needs to inflict pain on a person to heal them.