About five or six years ago, our middle daughter was having stomach problems, so we took her to the doctor. He ordered XRays, two sets of them, and she had a calcified mass in her upper right quadrant, I googled it and for her age, it had to be a neuroblastoma (cancer). The doctor scheduled a CT scan for one week later. We weren't saved yet, but we spent that week praying, and I put prayer requests at every church website I could find, and every Christian message board, and the day after the CT scan the doctor called, and I'll never forget how surprised and puzzled he sounded, he said "it's gone, it just disappeared." We started going to church after that, and got saved several months later.
I googled around and found some of those old prayer requests, they're still out there on some web sites.
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Lying for Jesus, are we!
You became religious because you were faced with REALITY? If you were another country, you'd be thanking the god they believe in, right? You could possibly be worshiping Almighty Allah, correct?
Also, why doesn't this work for the massive amounts of children out there with cancer? Well, I'm sure you death cultists do not care about them anyhows.
This isn't exactly lying for Jesus. They found a mass, he ASSUMED it was cancer, whatever it was disappeared in a week, therefore he thinks cancer was cured.
Also worth noting that it appeared in an X Ray but not in a CT scan.
"Neuroblastoma is one of the rare human malignancies known to demonstrate spontaneous regression from an undifferentiated state to a completely benign cellular appearance."
Erm... ooops?
Hmm... Stomach problems, calicified mass, disappears... That sounds rather like a fucking gallstone.
Someone is lying for Jesus here...
Liar.
Liar.
Liar.
You are a fucking liar.
"He ordered XRays, two sets of them, and she had a calcified mass in her upper right quadrant, I googled it and for her age, it had to be a neuroblastoma (cancer)."
First of all, if it's calcified it's not cancer (as far as I'm aware anyway).
Second, that particular type of cancer is known to go into spontaneous remission.
"[...] the day after the CT scan the doctor called, and I'll never forget how surprised and puzzled he sounded, he said "it's gone, it just disappeared.""
I suspect your doctor was neither surprised nor puzzled as calcium deposits aren't all that uncommon and often are reabsorbed quite readily by the body. I have an aunt who developed just such a thing in her neck because she was taking calcium supplements. She stopped taking the supplements and the calcium was reabsorbed within a month or so.
"We started going to church after that, and got saved several months later."
How nice.
Lying for Jesus.
Also, doctors are notorious for not knowing what they are doing. It probably wasn't what he said it was in the first place. Doctors miss obvious signs of diabetes (just as an example) all the time, even though they are common knowledge and easy to find.
There was something on the X-ray. You have no idea if it was calcified. X-rays just show a mass, could of also been a problem with the machine. That's why the doctor ordered the CT scan, to get a better look at whatever it is.
Sure he's puzzled, I would be too. But it's not a medical miracle.
"Neuroblastoma is one of the rare human malignancies known to demonstrate spontaneous regression from an undifferentiated state to a completely benign cellular appearance."
I remembered something from school and work about this so I looked at Wikipedia. Regardless of what happened I hope her daughter will not suffer from this again and will grow to a ripe old age.
A few years ago I developed some really bad gut problems, so I went to the doctor for help. He advised me to take a daily fiber suppliment. I did as advised, then prayed for 48 hours straight to be delivered of my Demon of Bloating and Gas. Within a day or two my abdominal pains were gone! Praise Jeebus!
Sounds more like a problem with the x-ray machine the first time round.
Also, a calcified mass would more likely be a stone of the kidney, gall or bladder variety. You know, the kind that are made of calcium. It may be that it was fragile enough to break up naturally.
I guarantee that prayer did not cause it to 'go away'.
We are ATHEISTS. We don't believe in any of the 6718 gods that man has invented throughout his history, we don't believe in the equal number of man-made devils, angels, demons, heavens, hells, purgatories, nor any religious publications, but we do respect the beliefs of others.
Whilst living in West Africa (20 years back), my wife had an incurable tumour on her thigh and was given days to live.
Then our cook took her into the jungle to see the local witch doctor who performed her "mumbo-jumbo" and the tumour cleared before our very eyes with only a small scar left.
No web-sites, no prayers.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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