> 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. . .

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