Actually, sometimes strangers help more than you realize sometimes.
Yep, and, for the record, I never said they didn't. What I did say is that it is mostly like a conversation with those who know you will help best.
generally I ask everything of my husband if I have questions, but he is famous for non-answers and occasional sarcasm, and I have recently found out taking some of his answers at face value might have been somewhat a confusion for me
Hmmm....
Do you think there could be a correlation between that description and the blasphemy-related illness?
This is a question I needed to ask strangers and I had gotten the answer I needed some time ago.
How long ago?
Your input does give me things to think about and I'm sorry for being short with you earlier.
I have not taken any offense. We're good.
Let me summarize:
As many here have observed, sensing physical discomfort and feeling emotional responses when hearing/reading blasphemy is normal and probably even normal. Both Christ in us and the Holy Spirit at work within us are offended by blasphemy. Blasphemy of the HS is unpardonable. That discomfort, however, is not equivalent to illness (depending on what was intended by using the word "sick"). When physiological sensations rise to the level of inducing nausea that is a problem. I could explain the biochemical responses entailed in nausea and how chronic nausea eats away at the body but it's sufficient simply to note recurring episodes of nausea are harmful. Nausea can be a normal and healthy response of the autonomic nervous system (the way God made us) but, like anything else in creation it can be twisted by sin (ours, the world, Satan). We live in a very corrupt world. It's amazing we all aren't sick and/or insane. Because of the way God saw fit to design the human being, experiences like the one described in the op are typically addressed with/by prayer, prayer and fasting, and examining with others how our own thoughts might precipitate our own illness.
Last thought. There are two other responses that might help. The first (and the one I recommend) is to remember Whose you are. When we remember Whose we are then we are better able to remember who we are and
you, @Hazelponi, are a daughter of The Most High God if, in fact, you lay claim the name of God's resurrected and ascended Son. You are a royal priestess now living as a member of God's holy nation. You have the ability to
overcome blasphemy in all its forms, a mandate to do so, and all the power and authority to do it. The second response is paradoxical:
compassion. People who blaspheme God are all likely destined for destruction and it's not going to be a kind of comfortable destruction. God, in His wisdom, may see fit to save some of them by His grace and we have absolutely no idea who those individuals might be. When led we minister the gospel, and we do so soberly because the exact same Jesus who saves is the exact same Jesus who stands in judgment meting out the just recompense for blasphemy.
That is what Jesus did the first time he came and
that is what we are called to do.
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You have asked questions that made me think about things through a whole other lens, much to my benefit.
