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Second faith-healing sect child dies

Oregon authorities say they're investigating the second recent death in an extended faith-healing family, this one a 16-year-old boy.

Police in Gladstone, Ore., said they were called to a private home Tuesday afternoon shortly after the death of the boy, who had complained of stomach pains and shortness of breath, The (Portland) Oregonian reported.

A police spokeswoman said the family are members of the Followers of Christ Church based in Oregon City, Ore., and did not call doctors because it is against their religious beliefs, adding that homicide and suicide have been ruled out in the case.

The dead boy's 15-month-old cousin, Ava Worthington, died on March 2 of treatable pneumonia. The newspaper said the girl's parents, Carl and Raylene Worthington, are awaiting trial on criminal charges in her death.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International.

This news arrived on: 06/19/2008
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06-21-2008 00:35
Janice Rogers wrote:

Faith Healing

True, God is the Great Physcian, but God never ever said not for we who walk by faith not to go to a Physcian. What happened to that child was not faith! That was foolishness and presumption which proves to be fatal! To those who have faith in God, DO NOT STOP SEEKING MEDIAL HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!



06-20-2008 11:02
billy wrote:

for by faith

faith healing i have faith that my cut will be healed yet the need for stiches is recorded in the old testment! jesus said it is your faith inside that heals you and the whole have no need for a doc. so what to do when cut and bleeding pray or get stiches ? i have faith yet my faith may not be strong enough to stop the bleeding! yet strong enough to stich myself? this is a deep issue with prayer i have over come many things and yes God has answered my prayers! and i still need doc. because of high blood pressure !



06-20-2008 08:54
ylw wrote:



the drs try to kill me and almost have 2 times all they want is money and more money



06-20-2008 00:28
bobbyr54 wrote:

Faith and Doctors

To just pray for healing and not take a sick person to a doctor is morally wrong. God gave us doctors to heal us. Sometimes doctors with all their knowledge and expertise cannot heal us of an
illness, and that is when faith and prayer come in, after the doctor can't do any more, not in place of. After all, one of Christ's followers and a writer of one the gospels, Luke, was a doctor himself.



06-19-2008 18:39
normajun wrote:

faith healing

healing means God is using us to be healed, or be a part of His healing ministry.He uses doctors to use their knowledge and experience in promoting and saving lives, and according to God's will and plan.Faith healing is only the first requirement in being healed.When medical means have been exhausted in healing, then we resort to our faith, to get healed, miraculously.This is faith healing.There was a time when faith healers dominated the very sick-these people pretended to be doing a procedure or surgery, and making the sick feel like they're healed, but they are not!These are dangerous people.We must seek medical assistance when very sick, and pray, we must!So God will guide us to the right doctor and hospital, and God's healing love will come over us, and receive His healing grace and mercy.Prayer is our first step when we are sick, that will decide God's providence, how long or what illness we have.Just like Peter's mother-in-law.She got well instantly, as soon as Jesus touched her forehead!(she was dying)Healing is a manifestation of God's love for us, and believing in the doctor's being an instrument of God, will surely aid in our healing, because God is with us, thru good times and bad times!We pray for this young boy who was left to die without seeking medical assistance, which God provides for us, in our timely need.May he be happy in heaven, and forgive and pray for his parents, to acquire wisdom regarding healing, in Jesus name, Amen.




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