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The 'Spiritual Tooth Fairy'???
From a comment over at PZ's place, comes this amazing news story of a dental faith healer:
The 50-year-old West Virginia evangelist, who describes himself as "an interdenominational Christian," will pray for the sick and lame, but it's cracked molars, crooked teeth, toothaches and amalgam fillings that he believes are his calling.
Since he began praying for teeth in 1987, the former coal miner and amateur boxer says he has seen crooked teeth straighten in slow motion, cracked teeth heal, and blackened amalgam fillings turn to silver and gold.
Jones' claims have led to him being dubbed the "spiritual tooth fairy" and "God's dental assistant."
Oh, man...just go read the thing. Take a drink along with you. You'll need it.
Jim Downey
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OK, so here goes.
I had silver fillings in my mouth before going to Steve Jones to ask him to ask Jesus to heal my broken tooth. Now I have a mouth full of Gold fillings, and my broken tooth is still broken. Go figure. I still am searching for the answer, but God does things different than we think He should. So be it.
Can you embrace it? an all powerful creator of the universe can do anything he wants to. It seems strange to us because we don't see life like He does. He loves us and cares about our health and our well being. Teeth included. I am thankful to have seen many miracles of healing, physical, spiritual and emotional. We all have hurts and pains, and Jesus wants to heal them all, but we refuse to come to Him and allow Him to do what He does. Its our loss really.
He who believes shall receive, and he who doubts shall go without.
Andrew
Tell that to amputees.
So, you're saying that there are no amputees who are faithful, who believe in God and have asked for Him to regrow their missing limbs? Seems like a funny way to treat believers.
Jim Downey
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I thought that was just a Jello Biafra lyric
"See silver-fillings turn to gold and other dental miracles"
Bring a flashlight and a mirror to observe.
"Healing doesn't always
"Healing doesn't always happen there and then," he said. "It could happen when they're in McDonald's the next day."
LOL!...and of course, they re in McDonald's the next day. I like the picture that people who go to faith healers to fix their teeth are just normal folks. They go to McDonald's too. Just like us.
Too funny...
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