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1 | Healing | Ps 115:3 | NightJay0044 | 160994 | ||
okay, I understand about God, but you know how in the past the Jesus had his 12 deciples and they all followed Jesus well not Judas. You know how they all had power to heal. Why couldn't we have that same power, if we believe and God and do it for the right reasons, because Jesus is all that is right? Of course, then you think, is healing my grandma for the right reasons? You can always always ask God through Jesus. In Jesus Christ, Jason |
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2 | Healing | Ps 115:3 | Hank | 161025 | ||
Jason - Just one comment, faithful young searcher for the truth, before I retire to bed to rest my tired bones! ..... Far too much emphasis has been placed on physical healing in our time, chiefly by the religious quacks who promote the Word of Faith heresy, and before that, by Mary Baker Eddy and her Christian Science cultism. And if, as I contend, too much emphasis is being placed on physical healing, then it follows in logical sequence that far too little emphasis is being placed on spiritual healing. And it is precisely for the spiritual restoration of fallen man to a right relationship to God that Jesus came to earth and shed His blood on the cross. He died for our sins, not for our physical maladies! As BradK has pointed out, the miracles which, of course, included physical healing, that Jesus performed during His ministry on earth, and those He empowered certain of His followers to perform during theirs, were incidental to His mission, an adjunct, as it were, whose purpose was to authenticate who He was, the Messiah, and who His disciples were, His followers who were chosen by Him and sent out by Him to proclaim the truth of the Good News of the Christ. ...... Jesus' true mission was to give His life as a ransom for many, to seek and save lost souls, not diseased bodies. John 3:16 clearly states Christ's mission. And Matthew 28:19,20 clearly states the church's mission. Neither passage says a word about physical healing. ...... We can pray for the healing of friends and loved ones and even of ourselves. There is nothing unscriptural in praying IN GOD'S WILL for these things. But we must not be so presumptuous and foolish to think we have the power to heal, or so brazenly blasphemous to the Sovereign God to have the stupid audacity to ORDER Him to heal. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Healing | Ps 115:3 | atdcross | 161443 | ||
Hypocrites in the Church do not disprove the enabling power of God to live godly. That history shows dark times when christians persecuted Christians does not disprove the existence of God. In the same way, although there have been or are those who have not presented the doctrine and practice of healing in a positive and Biblical light, that does not mean that healing (as Jesus and the apostles practiced it) is not for today. Allow me to respectfully submit that I do not see where the Bible portrays Jesus' power to heal as "incidental to his mission." Healing was essential in identifying Messiah. When asked if he were the Messiah, Jesus told them to look at his credentials. What were his credentials? Healings (Luke 7:22)! Jesus quoted from Isaiah 35:5 and 61:1, which gave the description of Messiah; this was how the Jews would be able to identify the true Messiah, by these "signs and wonders" performed. If Hank's assertion is true (and I believe it is) that the healings were in order to "authenticate who He was, the Messiah," how could they be "incidental"? To answer Jason's questions: 1. We don't have the same power because we do not believe that God desires to heal. Where there is doubt of God's will, faith is uncertain. 2. As a consequence of unbelief, we do not ask for healing: "you do not have because you do not ask" (James 4:2). 3. On the whole, the teaching about healing is misunderstood, many times taught with an apparent erroneous emphasis, and poorly put into practice. 4. Concerning your grandmother, my question is, when is it ever wrong to pray for God to heal the sick? |
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