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    I like the way brother Hagin use to put it. "If it's God's will for you to be sick, then you are out of His will by trying to get healed, taking medicine, or going to the doctor. And the same goes for being poor.


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    That's how I always explain it when somebody brings it up. Scales covered his eyes until he was prayed for (and I did read the scales explanation in what VW wrote). It think it was actually real scales due to the same word is used in the Greek in the Septuagint (Greek translation of OT) when talking about fish scales. But again, that's neither here nor there. The simple explanation was it wasn't sickness or disease blindness. It was just the equivalent of somebody covering up ones eyes, but with scales.

    I also have another way of dealing with these issues where people say God made somebody sick. Though this with Paul rarely comes up. It's mostly the man born blind in the NT supposedly to glorify God (that can be explained away with simple translator punctuation in the wrong place, there is no punctuation in the original Greek so it's at the discretion of the translators) and Job. I make this point because many aren't going to accept it wasn't God, although I do try to explain that.

    I just say, ok, let just say God did make them sick (and again I do try to teach them on that). That's not the point. The point is Job was HEALED and got twice as much in the end, and the man born blind was HEALED. You're trying to use these examples of God making someone sick, but they are examples of people who were HEALED. So if you fancy yourself as a 'poor ole Job' or having been born the way you are to glorify God, then you need to start shouting and dancing because your healing is assured, because they were both HEALED. See, nobody that believes God makes people sick ever looks at these example from a healing standpoint which is really the bottom line when all is said and done. They were HEALED. James mentions the END of Job and God's mercy.

    People trying to use these example of God making people sick are no more than annoying gnat to me, easy to brush away. :)
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    God always does what is right. We can't question God's actions on humans and find him faulty. Because he is an all-knowing God. He struck Paul with temporal blindness to discipline him. He did that because he loves Paul and found him worthy of a special assignment for the propagation of the Gospel.

    "For whom the Lord loves he disciplines, and punishes every son he accepts" (Hebrews 12:6).

    Remember, God has also said, He will not let sin go unpublished.

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    I think God temporarily blinded Paul for a few days to further impress upon him his helplessness and need for God. Just for a few days. After the scales dropped, Paul would be doubly grateful to see, and totally a changed man. (Especially since he may have believed he'd be blinded for life)

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