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   > George,   
   >> You eat liver? That's OFFAL!!!   
   > It has to be fried beef liver with sauteed onions...I will NOT eat it any   
   > other way.   
      
   The nastiest smell on the Earth has got to be that cooking!   
      
   > However, it tends to send the cholesterol and triglycerides through the   
   > roof, so I can't do it that often.   
      
   I prefer beef heart (sliced a 1/4 inch thick, & sauteed in butter with scads   
   of garlic, then removed to a hot plate, & the remainihg butternowmixed with   
   meart  uuices, turned into the tickest richest gravy you ever did taste -- all   
   seved  with mashed taties!   
      
   You can feel your arteries tightening up just thinking of this, eh?   
      
   >> You will know them by their fruits. . .   
   > So many charlatan preachers out there today.   
      
   Yup,. both ordained & non-. . .   
      
   I'll call them on it; I don't care -- I know the Bible & most church   
   formative  tradition forwards & backwards!   
      
   Like the woman who asked me, at a holy roller(generic Pentecostal-based) church   
   , if I'd like her to pray for my paralysis; I was an unbeliever still & thought   
   she was going to kneel before her bed that nighht & say a prayer for me --   
   how  swewet -- so I thanked her & assented. She put her hand on my shoulder &    
   started praying loudly for all to hear for God to heal me.   
      
   Well, God has His own plans & I shjowed up the next week with the same fgriemd,   
   & she marched right up to me & glared, "How DARE ytou come back here with your    
   loack of faith? If you'd trusted in God, you'd be healed right now!"   
      
   My hackles were up from her attitude, so I lit into her, right back, "Pardon    
   me, sister; I'm prettyy sure Jesus said that when you pray, if you pray,    
   believing, it WILL be done.  Sounds to me like YOU lack ythe faith, & now    
   you're trying to tempt others to lose theirs by suggesting God ignores   
   prayers. I felt justified in addressing her at the same volumne she'd   
   unBiblically used  to pray the week before.   
      
   My friend amened a couple of my points & she slunk away, I'm sure to never   
   try  such nonsense again!   
      
   Later, after I'd become a believer, I considered if I'd done her harm, if a    
   better response could've been done, but with what I knew at that time, my    
   response was quite reasonable.  She started it.  I've no doubt that God,   
   using  me, finished it.   
      
   &, on the topic of faith healing -- if we had true Christians, in the Apostolic   
       
   sense, there'd be news of thousands being healed on Cancer & other palliative    
   wards.  The fact it's not so tells us what we need to know about the sincerity    
   & faith of today's believers.  I admit, I lack that kind of fath, but I don't    
   claim it either. . .   
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
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