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I am somewhat disappointed by God's approach to toothache. I am suffering myself at the moment and therefore turned to the Bible for succor:
Proverb:25:19: Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Jer:31:30: But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
They’re not a great deal of help, are they? They just tell me what I know. There is no other mention of toothache in either the OT or NT. There's plenty of gnashing and grinding, and breaking other people's teeth - there are teeth like flocks of sheep even (all woolly and wandering around in your mouth - Song:4:2), but of painful teeth, there is silence.
I did think that there could be demons in my teeth, but I dismissed this as I go to church every day and read the Bible more often than a Catholic priest fiddles with minors.
In all of Judah and Israel, there must have been a few people with toothache at any one time, but if they did, they did not manage to feature in the OT or the NT. Mind you, I can understand this - if you've got toothache, you don't feel much like going out and doing some Godly deed, do you? Well, I don't - I just wonder why there is no clear instruction in the Bible - perhaps there is a lost Gospel?
It would have been very useful to those who preach the Gospel to have Jesus do "The Miracle of the Toothache" - I can see it now:
“And there was, at that time, in Judea, a man who was a rich man and who was seized of toothache with a great ache-ance, and the aching was great. And the man came unto Jesus Who had just finished curing a man with one leg and said, “Lord, Lord, I cry out with pain and woe, there is great pain, even yea as I say these words, and whereas I may be rich, my riches are as nought when set against this pain. It is very much ‘of this world’ as Thou doest say, and yet I would give those riches to be free.”
And then Jesus could poke his finger in his mouth and all his teeth would be as a flock of sheep, and the rich man would give all his treasure to the poor and go to heaven.
It is not at all one of those Miracles that atheists like to say are “impossible”, and think of all the interpretations (i.e. use as a metaphor for pain inflicted on the innocent by a just and loving God) that there could have been. A rich vein to be mined.
Of course, the downside would be that every man and his dog would think that because Jesus said that His disciples could perform miracles, that they could do it themselves, whereas they can’t because they are not True Christians. This could have led to a situation where faith was lost.
Anyway, the earliest booking for The Landover Prayer Warriors I can get is next Friday - in the meantime, your prayers - however amateurish - are appreciated.
Yours in pain and Christ
EB.
Proverb:25:19: Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Jer:31:30: But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
They’re not a great deal of help, are they? They just tell me what I know. There is no other mention of toothache in either the OT or NT. There's plenty of gnashing and grinding, and breaking other people's teeth - there are teeth like flocks of sheep even (all woolly and wandering around in your mouth - Song:4:2), but of painful teeth, there is silence.
I did think that there could be demons in my teeth, but I dismissed this as I go to church every day and read the Bible more often than a Catholic priest fiddles with minors.
In all of Judah and Israel, there must have been a few people with toothache at any one time, but if they did, they did not manage to feature in the OT or the NT. Mind you, I can understand this - if you've got toothache, you don't feel much like going out and doing some Godly deed, do you? Well, I don't - I just wonder why there is no clear instruction in the Bible - perhaps there is a lost Gospel?
It would have been very useful to those who preach the Gospel to have Jesus do "The Miracle of the Toothache" - I can see it now:
“And there was, at that time, in Judea, a man who was a rich man and who was seized of toothache with a great ache-ance, and the aching was great. And the man came unto Jesus Who had just finished curing a man with one leg and said, “Lord, Lord, I cry out with pain and woe, there is great pain, even yea as I say these words, and whereas I may be rich, my riches are as nought when set against this pain. It is very much ‘of this world’ as Thou doest say, and yet I would give those riches to be free.”
And then Jesus could poke his finger in his mouth and all his teeth would be as a flock of sheep, and the rich man would give all his treasure to the poor and go to heaven.
It is not at all one of those Miracles that atheists like to say are “impossible”, and think of all the interpretations (i.e. use as a metaphor for pain inflicted on the innocent by a just and loving God) that there could have been. A rich vein to be mined.
Of course, the downside would be that every man and his dog would think that because Jesus said that His disciples could perform miracles, that they could do it themselves, whereas they can’t because they are not True Christians. This could have led to a situation where faith was lost.
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Anyway, the earliest booking for The Landover Prayer Warriors I can get is next Friday - in the meantime, your prayers - however amateurish - are appreciated.
Yours in pain and Christ
EB.
Himself Who gave you that toothache:
) if you give the bottle a good shake to mix the goodness in and then add some lime juice, it is quite palatable. 
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