I think I'm a fairly even keeled fellow. I mean, I have always been able to exhibit self-control around most people. If I lose it, my wife is usually the one to put a cap on my steamer. I think my kids would attest to the fact that I very seldom raise my voice or do anything threatening in the least. But it's NOT because I don't get bothered by things.
I've been on Facebook for several months now and I have learned two things. First, posting anything that I feel is of real importance, gets little notice. Second, any attempt at correcting a false notion will go unheeded, for the most part. Now let me get to those pet peeves, though, really, hardly anyone will read them or care if they do, but I guess it's therapy for me.
My first pet peeve, #1 is the constant misuse of Biblical Prophecy by a number of people. These are well meaning Christians I am sure, but they are not well informed! They keep talking about natural disasters as signs of impending doom and they post videos put together by those who seem to want to scare people into religion. In fact, sometimes these postings have no real gospel message to them! I'm all for being zealous for Christ but I'm NOT for twisting Scripture and for pretending to know what they cannot possibly know. False prophets are plentiful and those who follow them are legion. Occasionally I get told how the person feels sorry for me or how they will pray for me BUT I tell them don't pray for me to follow false prophets or to lie to people just to get them to get religion!
For those of us who believe in a Pre-millenial, pre-tribulational return of Christ for His Church, we know there are NO biblical signs about that time when the Church will be translated from earth to glory. There are lots of signs about the 2nd Coming when Christ comes back to earth and defeats his enemies. Now, if these people were simply to say that it SEEMS like things are becoming more and more like those described for the 2nd Coming I could let it slide but when they say thing like "all these events are in perfect alignment with prophetic warnings in the Bible" THAT is NOT true, it is false. All I ask is that the hyper-tension cease. Read your Bible, put the prophecies in context, and stop making all Christians look like they're ready to take their sip of Kool-aid. I am not a novice but I have learned that to respond to these postings is wasting breath (or I should say typing skills).
#2: This one irritates me almost as much and, again, I have learned then when people have been steeped in a particular mindset it is almost impossible to reach them. So, my second pet peeve is the disregard for alternative, or I should say, Natural Health Care. Over the years I have helped people with colds, flu, acne, arthritis, kidney dis-ease, headaches, sunburns, sore throat, stings and bites, and I've even reduced a branchial cleft cyst to where it cannot even be seen, and much more without anything but natural means. As a result there have been "0" side effects and on occasion, no cost. I have learned how to use herbs and trees, etc. for healing. This summer I relieved a sunburn in about 15 minutes using nothing but my own energy. There were lots of witnesses so there is no doubt!
I saw a post yesterday from someone who had cancer and was hoping it would not return. Her doctor had told her that she would always have cancer, never be rid of it, but that she could still live for, perhaps, years. The fact is that we all have cancer cells in our bodies but our immune systems generally handle them. To tell a person they cannot be totally healed is to put a voodoo hex on them.
Doctors are people, human beings, and they don't know everything. Seventy-five percent of the world uses alternative health care but here in the U.S. because of the medical powers and the pharmaceuticals people are convinced their doctor is god. So, you will take that radiation (that causes cancer) and you will take that Chemo (which causes cancer) and you will do so because your god has told you there's no other way. You will buy over the counter drugs because that's all you know. You will take prescribed meds for any and every condition because that's the way you are programmed. But there IS another way! I believe it's God's way and that is to use what our forefathers used, natural medicines. These are the pet peeves that drive me nuts!
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