Mack Major #fundie facebook.com

Jesus spent a large portion of His time on Earth casting out demons. There were instances when He would cast a demon out of someone before He could heal them from their sickness or disease.

He even rebuked a fever inside of someone before the person could be healed.

"So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them." Luke 4:39

To rebuke someone means to yell at them to show your disapproval; it means to give a severe reprimand or to scold harshly. You don't rebuke inanimate objects or non-living 'things.' You only rebuke something that is alive like a human - or an animal that has basic intelligence and understanding.

So in order for Jesus to rebuke a fever, the fever would've had to be something that was both alive and intelligent enough to understand and respond to the rebuke.

This is interesting, because it suggests that some illnesses, sicknesses, symptoms, ailments, viruses and diseases are actually intelligent living creatures hiding within a person's body, with the ability to think, act and respond.

Maybe the reason why there seems to be no cure for cancer yet is because we fail to understand the nature of what a cancer actually is. Perhaps instead of poisoning the cancer out of someone's body via chemo, we need to focus first on casting the cancer out of the person via Christ.

In other words: instead of treating cancer like an esoteric *it* - start treating cancer like a living intelligent thing that has the capacity to respond to those who rebuke it with confidence in the authority of Jesus Christ.

After all: if a fever can be *rebuked* out of a person, certainly cancers can too.

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