Does that mean that God is unfair?
Who am I to say that God is unjust because He did not give us both medications for free. God can deal any way He wills.
That wasn't the point and I suspect you knew that. The point wasn't that it was unfair (it would have been) the point is that it doesn't make any sense. It's a contrivance at best. And it is this exact ability of yours to rationalize it that proves it was not any sort of divine intervention on your behalf.
Incidentally, your response here directly implies that God acts arbitrarily. Was that your intent?
We did not expect to get our medication for free. That was God's blessing.
I do not deny that it was a blessing to you, what I deny is that it had anything to do with God's direct intervention as a direct result of your faith. In fact, I know for certain that such is not the case. All good things come from God and so it is good to praise Him when good things happen to us but what you're talking about is no different than superstitious belief in magic.
We didn't have $346 a month to spend on her medication. Everything would have to go on a credit card.
We are on a fixed income. We prayed that God would help her get a lower price on her medication. God is solvent. The Bible says,
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:3,4-36
I am not going to question God as to why God can do what He wills. Our lives are in God's hands. God did not have to do anything for us.
You asked.
Was her faith $33 short of what was needed to wipe out the whole amount? God could wipe out the $33 if He wanted to.
God is solvent. It was not His will to wipe out the whole amount or cured the hypothyroidism and ended the need for the medication altogether. I see the problem? God has the answer.
So what's the answer then?
You're talking gibberish. "God is solvent"! That's your answer?! Really?
In what universe does such a comment make any sense whatsoever? God is not rich! He is the Creator of wealth itself. He does not make decisions based on whether He can afford it or whether it even makes financial sense for you.
The $33 a month you're still paying is proof that God didn't have a thing to do with it (directly). Show me the passage where God's intervention was anything short of complete. Show me the biblical precedent depicting God leaving someone on the hook for 9.5% of the debt that He helped them pay. It doesn't exist because that's not how God works.
You said.
This sort of thing is only evidence for faith if you're viewing the "evidence" through faith-tinted glasses.
There are no tinted glasses when we see things God way. God's way is always right. I am a born-again Christian and love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I believe in the God of the Bible, and He is the only true God.
I never suggested otherwise. You retort here has nothing to do with what I said and yes, you do have very darkly faith-tinted glasses on if you think this 90% "miracle" is from God rather than man. In all likelihood, it has to do with you benefiting from governing officials stealing money by means of the tax code from those who produced it so as to give it to people like yourself by way of government medical care so as to make as many people as possible dependant on them rather than God.
Again, that isn't to say that it can't be counted as a blessing. It clearly can be (attitude is everything) and indeed, I'm happy for your good fortune but as Christians we believe in truth not blind belief and superstition.
I am living proof by faith that God is working in me.
As are we all. How would your understanding of the evidence of faith account for the millions of
Christian people who don't get the blessing you got?
In the third grade, I was told by my school teacher, "I will learn anything and never make any of my life." I could not read-write or spell. Why didn't God help me in school? I never learn to read, write and spell until I was almost 13.
That doesn't mean that God didn't have the power to do it. I prayed for it. I have the faith to believe He could.
I believed in the Bible, and there is one God, and this one God is all-powerful.
Again, this has nothing to do with anything I've said and doesn't refute a syllable of it.
In 1963 God came into my life and saved me.
And that is the singular miracle that you have experienced in your life.
I search the Scriptures and study them. I know what faith is. My life is full of evidence of what faith is. In 1993 I graduated from College. I am the author of 7 books. All this is because I believe that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
It's because God enabled you to work hard and to overcome the obstacles between you and your goals, not because of direct, super-natural, miraculous, divine intervention. So long as the goals we have in our lives are righteous, God can and often does work through, around and even in spite of those people and things that get in the way but He does not guarantee the He will do so. The proof of that is manifold throughout the New Testament. Many faithful believers not only sick or injured but violently beaten, enslaved, starved, whipped, exiled, murdered, stoned, hanged and even crucified. My bet is that they all prayed pretty hard for their affliction to be lifted.
God's answer was "My grace is sufficient." (II Corinthians 12:9).
Without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6
You can tell me I do not understand the Bible.
You can tell me I am wrong, but my life tells me I am right.
Experience is NOT the test of truth, God's Word (Logos) is.
If what you believe is unbiblical or irrational (often the same thing) then what you believe is false - period.
Look, I have no desire to make an enemy of you. What I've said has been dispassionate and biblical and you've somehow taken it to mean that I think you're some sort of unbeliever or a fool. Nothing could be further from the truth but that isn't relevant. This website is supposed to be intended to provide a place for people discuss various issues on which they disagree. Some issues are worth fighting over because they cast God as unjust or in some other way insult the righteous character of God. This is not one of those issues and since you clearly didn't bring it up to discuss it with someone who disagrees but instead are simply trying to disseminate your own beliefs, I'll leave you to do so.
Clete
