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1 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | retxar | 67657 | ||
Thanks Steve, Isa 53 in the Septuagint, which Matthew probably had access to, reads much like Matthew has quoted here of Jesus taking our infirmities and bearing our sicknesses. In context, Matthew is no doubt referring to spiritual as well as physical healing, but mostly physical. Since the bible does not contradict itself, we have to conclude that Isaiah 61 refers to physical as well as spiritual healing. 1 Peter, as you have correctly said, in context, is mostly referring to spiritual healing. However, if we take what it says and what it does not say, we cannot rule out the fact that Jesus’s suffering provided physical healing. By the same token, we cannot take James 5 and rule out the fact that sometimes God does not heal, (for what ever reason that He knows and we do not) even tho James 5 plainly says the prayer of faith WILL heal the sick, with no option of God ever not healing. Other scripture, as you and others have provided, will bear this out. We must balance scripture with scripture and interpret scripture in context of not only the passage we are studying, but also the whole bible. retxar |
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2 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | srbaegon | 67658 | ||
Hello retxar I agree that the LXX is the version Matthew is quoting from. And yes, there is the application of physical healing. See my last post to you. But even in Is 53:4 the the construction of the verse makes a distinction between the two halves of the verse. Isaiah 53:4 (ESV) Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. Even though He took upon Himself our infirmities (physical healing), 53:4b-5 moves on to spiritual healing. Jesus' suffering is not related to physical healing. 1. What in Is 61 requires a physical aspect? 2. 1 Peter 2:24 is not speaking MOSTLY of spiritual healing, but ENTIRELY. Steve |
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3 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | Hank | 67660 | ||
Steve: I hold that Mary Baker Eddy was not Jesus and that Jesus was not Mary Baker Eddy. Therefore, those who follow the physical healing teachings of Mary Baker Eddy are called Christian Scientists; and that those who follow the spiritual healing teachings of the Savior are called merely Christians. In my estimation, Steve, you are on the right track and are placing the emphasis of healing exactly where the New Testament places it: upon spiritual healing, upon justification, upon freedom from man's spiritual sickness that, by the grace of God, Christ made possible by his redemptive work on the cross. Those whom Jesus healed in New Testament times all eventually died. Even Lazarus whom He brought forth from death, even he died. Jesus never offered a potion, lotion or balm or any other kind of physical healing that was anything but temporal. But, as the hymn goes, "There is a Balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul." The Lord Jesus Christ IS that Balm. It is, I surely do believe, this living water, this bread of life, this balm, which Christ gives that should be prized above all things. As surely as night follows day, this leads us to embrace the conclusion that it is not physical but spiritual healing that the Bible emphasizes, and in like manner so should we. --Hank | ||||||