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Jul 20, 1974 · The charges stemmed from the death of 11‐year‐old Wesley Parker last Aug. 22, three days after his daily shots of insulin to counteract the disease had been stopped by his parents. “I'm just...
Oct 10, 1973 · Parents of Wesley Parker, 11-yr-old boy who died when his insulin supply was cut because of his parent's belief in faith healer, on Oct 9 plead not guilty to charges of manslaughter and child...
May 17, 1988 · Three days after Lucky Parker announced in church that her son’s diabetes had been cured by God, 11-year-old Wesley was dead. Because the Parkers threw Wesley’s insulin away, they were...
- What Is Faith?
- Trust and Dependence
- Trust and Surrender
- Using Scripture Correctly
So what is faith? Yes, I know you can recite Hebrews 11:1. But how would you explain the meaning of faith to a child? One word that is foundational to the Christian's experience is dependence. The Christian life is a life of dependence on God. We use three different words to describe that dependent relationship: belief, faith, and trust. These days...
I would like to suggest that wherever in Scripture you find the word belief or faith, you can substitute the word trust and come much closer to grasping the meaning of the passage.The Greek word for faith is pistis, and the verb form is pisteuo. Neither word has to do with grasping and accepting the facts (belief) or how the modern charismatic uses...
Trust is being content to depend on someone else. It involves surrender; for salvation we must surrender our sins and our sin-tainted efforts to achieve what is beyond our capacity to achieve; and in all aspects of life— including sickness—we must surrender all to God. The dependent Christian does not demand healing for himself or for anyone else; ...
To pick a text out of Scripture at random, wrench it out of context, and demand that God honor it by a miracle in your life is not to use Scripture legitimately. This practice is an aspect of modern charismatic religion that has replaced faith-as-trust with positive thinking. It is this audacious positive thinking that makes people believe that wha...
Wesley Parker was an active 11-year-old boy—a diabetic taking regular insulin shots. One day at church, after hearing a Word of Faith message to confess and claim their son’s healing, Larry and Alice Parker intentionally withheld their son’s insulin. As a result, Wesley went into a diabetic coma.
May 19, 1988 · The tale of Larry and Lucky Parker is enough to make the most ... Eleven-year-old Wesley, the darling of his parents and. the hero of his baseball team, fell into a diabetic coma in the summer ...
Mar 9, 2015 · He tells of Wesley Parker, who died at age 11 from type 1 diabetes after his parents withheld insulin and sang hymns instead. He writes about Terrance Cottrell Jr., who suffocated in 2003...
