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161 | How many Healed | Mark 5:29 | stjohn | 219600 | ||
YenIsaRap, in the case of the woman and the leper, Jesus' statement was made after they were healed physically, so we should perhaps surmise that being made whole by faith, has not so much to do with the healing of the body, but the spirit. When it comes to studying the Scriptures for all they are worth, we sometimes find apples and oranges in the same basket. John |
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162 | How many Healed | Mark 5:29 | stjohn | 219587 | ||
Yen, the obvious danger in putting too much emphasis on our faith to heal is, that it really doesn't depend on our faith at all whether or not God will, by His power, and His power alone, heal those who He desires to heal. In Mat 14:34-39 Jesus condescended to their request, but it was His power to heal, not their faith that did the healing. From such emphasis on faith to heal, many false charlatan healers have come to the front of cult belief in healing by faith, and that we somehow won't receive such healing for lack of faith. Many babes in Christ have had their faith shipwrecked by these charlatans. We must remember that most of those who Jesus healed were not born again believers, or believers at all. All they knew was that He could do it because they saw the evidence of His many miracles. Also when He healed, it was not just symptoms like what we see today, it was genuine organic diseases like, blindness, lameness, leprosy and palsy, not to mention demon possession, and even death itself. There is not a single doubt whatsoever that God has the power to heal anyone He choses at any time He choses, but, it is His power, not our faith that does the healing. John From gotquestions.org: Question: "What does the Bible say about healing?" Answer: Isaiah 53:5, which is then quoted in 1 Peter 2:24, is a key verse on healing, but it is often misunderstood and misapplied. “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” The word translated “healed” can mean either spiritual or physical healing. However, the contexts of Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter 2 make it clear that it is speaking of spiritual healing. “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24). The verse is talking about sin and righteousness, not sickness and disease. Therefore, being “healed” in both these verses is speaking of being forgiven and saved, not physically healed. The Bible does not specifically link physical healing with spiritual healing. Sometimes people are physically healed when they place their faith in Christ, but this is not always the case. Sometimes it is God’s will to heal, but sometimes it is not. The apostle John gives us the proper perspective: “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him” (1 John 5:14-15). God still performs miracles. God still heals people. Sickness, disease, pain, and death are still realities in this world. Unless the Lord returns, everyone who is alive today will die, and the vast majority of them (Christians included) will die as the result of a physical problem (disease, sickness, injury). It is not always God’s will to heal us physically. Ultimately, our full physical healing awaits us in heaven. In heaven, there will be no more pain, sickness, disease, suffering, or death (Revelation 21). We all need to be less preoccupied with our physical condition in this world and a lot more concerned with our spiritual condition (Romans 12:1-2). Then we can focus our hearts on heaven where we will no longer have to deal with physical problems. Revelation 21:4 describes the true healing we should all be longing for: “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” |
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163 | Satan's flood. Want some info. | Rev 12:15 | stjohn | 219586 | ||
Dear Justme, I must confess, I read that post in haste and completely glossed over that grievous error! Good work! Thank you for your astute diligence in keeping SBF free from heterodoxical teaching. John |
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164 | Greek of Luke 1.36: hosei/about | Luke 1:56 | stjohn | 219577 | ||
Brother, Doc, the content of this thread has just reminded me of something our dear departed brother Hank wrote. And I'm glad I asked him if I could quote him on it before he went home to be with the Lord. I think it fits very well hear and now, that, this thread is getting a bit off corse when it comes to studying the Scriptures for all their worth! This is an edited version because the autograph was about a particular part of the holy writ, so I've taken the liberty to amend it to fit a wider field. I hope brother Hank doesn't mind too much, and I hope that it's taken in the spirit that it's intended and not offend anyone. :-) John “I lay no claim whatever to any expertise on matters involving High Theology or anything of the kind, so I'm fairly well limited when it comes to trying to connect the dots. And that is good! It forces me to attempt to speak only where the Bible speaks and to keep my mouth shut where the Bible is silent. I have enough trouble learning and digesting what the Bible clearly reveals, and so it leaves me no time to speculate and ruminate on the things which our loving and all-wise Father chose not to elaborate. God's eternal and unchanging word will be around long after I'm gone. Few indeed are they who care about my opinions now, and fewer still will remember them after I've gone. So my candid view about questions such as call for speculations is this: If God did not choose to reveal details, is it our business to worry very much about them? I really don't believe that God expects us to fill in the blanks ourselves nor needs man to take over where He left off, do you? Just how important is it to know about such things? The narrative has endured and imparted the message it was intended to impart for centuries as it is, without being gussied up with all these minute frills and details. Let's be content to learn from it all that it clearly reveals without tarnishing the sacred record by adding our worthless speculation and groundless guesses.” –Hank |
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165 | How many Healed | Mark 5:29 | stjohn | 219561 | ||
None can be supernaturally healed save by the power of God. Though the woman perceiving herself healed after touching the garment, she was healed by the power of God not by the touching of the garment. So the answer is, none. | ||||||
166 | sacrafice to the Lord? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 219539 | ||
Hi Peace, Welcome to the forum! Thats a pretty tall order, and a question that takes quite a bit of study to truly understand. Reading the Bible through will just begin to shed light on the subject and years of study are needed to really get a good grasp on it. At least it was that way for me, but I'm a little more obtuse then the average Bear. :-) I'll just defer your question to Easton's Bible Dictionary, I believe they give a very good cursory answer and will give you a good base to start from. May God bless you in your pursuit of understanding His holy Word! --"The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by guilty man. The language and the idea of sacrifice pervade the whole Bible. Sacrifices were offered in the ante-diluvian age. The Lord clothed Adam and Eve with the skins of animals, which in all probability had been offered in sacrifice (Genesis 3:21). Abel offered a sacrifice "of the firstlings of his flock" (4:4; Hebrews 11:4). A distinction also was made between clean and unclean animals, which there is every reason to believe had reference to the offering up of sacrifices (Genesis 7:2, 8), because animals were not given to man as food till after the Flood. The same practice is continued down through the patriarchal age (Genesis 8:20; 12:7; 13:4, 18; 15:9-11; 22:1-18, etc.). In the Mosaic period of Old Testament history definite laws were prescribed by God regarding the different kinds of sacrifices that were to be offered and the manner in which the offering was to be made. The offering of stated sacrifices became indeed a prominent and distinctive feature of the whole period (Exodus 12:3-27; Leviticus 23:5-8; Numbers 9:2-14). (See ALTAR.) We learn from the Epistle to the Hebrews that sacrifices had in themselves no value or efficacy. They were only the "shadow of good things to come," and pointed the worshippers forward to the coming of the great High Priest, who, in the fullness of the time, "was offered once for all to bear the sin of many." Sacrifices belonged to a temporary economy, to a system of types and emblems which served their purposes and have now passed away. The "one sacrifice for sins" hath "perfected for ever them that are sanctified." Sacrifices were of two kinds: 1. Unbloody, such as (1) first-fruits and tithes; (2) meat and drink-offerings; and (3) incense. 2. Bloody, such as (1) burnt-offerings; (2) peace-offerings; and (3) sin and trespass offerings."-- Easton's Bible Dictionary-- http://www.christstudy.net/dic/easton/index. John |
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167 | How often is God's name omited? | Ps 83:18 | stjohn | 219534 | ||
Welcome to the forum, twlavista! Actually, the answer: "Of course I am a witness for Jehovah" is about as close to an honest straightforward answer we've seen hear at SBF from a Russelite, or anywhere else for that mater! And we do see a lot of them don't we! Not bad getting that much out of one of them, really, but I thought I'd try again, just for kicks. :-) Thanks for the encouragement! John |
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168 | How often is God's name omited? | Ps 83:18 | stjohn | 219525 | ||
That doesn't exactly answer it. Are you a JW? Yes or no? As far as your first question goes: though your post was technically about the Bible, you stated that the holy writ is -as it has been given to us by God in His inspired word- "negligent" and that decisions of what is in it's sacred content are "arbitrary", thus, trifleing with it's inspired, sacred content. That, my dear, jolo, is unacceptable, according not only to the TOU but the word of God itself, as it also warns us very sternly about such practices. Please familiarize yourself with the Terms Of Use, (TOU) we all agreed to when we reregistered to this forum. And I repeat once again so you don't forget and attempt to deflect to another subject once again with, yet another question: Are you or are you not, a JW-?? John |
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169 | How often is God's name omited? | Ps 83:18 | stjohn | 219523 | ||
You have answered my question twice now with a question. Please answer my question, are you a JW? | ||||||
170 | How often is God's name omited? | Ps 83:18 | stjohn | 219519 | ||
How about answering my question? Are you a JW? | ||||||
171 | How often is God's name omited? | Ps 83:18 | stjohn | 219516 | ||
Dear jolo, I fail to see what any of that has to do with Bible study. My friend this is a sola Scriptura Bible study and if the holy writ isn't good enough for you, as is, then you are in the wrong place. Apparently you have come here with some sort of agenda or ax to grind. Are you a JW? John |
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172 | Who are "the least of these?" | Matt 25:40 | stjohn | 219443 | ||
Frankly Dhaniei, I'm more then a little confused by yours and Yen's logic. Others and I asked what I thought and still think are fair questions. And I don't happen to think that any of the questions asked or admonishments given in this thread are offensive in any way. Why are you guys so sensitive about this stuff? You know from here it looks like you are the ones that are making the big deal about it. I really don't understand how or why someone who claims to be a disciple of Jesus Christ would not want to go by His namesake, Christian. If you don't mind I'll ask you again, because I'm quite perplexed by this, so perhaps you could please explain to me why you would not want to go by the name Christian? Candidly my dear, It looks very much to me that you even have some some distain for the term. Dhaniei, my friend, if you don't like the name Christian, or Christians... what on God's green Earth are you doing here at a Christian website? | ||||||
173 | Who are "the least of these?" | Matt 25:40 | stjohn | 219441 | ||
So let me get this straight. According to your logic, it would be perfectly alright for a converted Aleut to call themselves a... Messianic Eskimo? | ||||||
174 | Who are "the least of these?" | Matt 25:40 | stjohn | 219423 | ||
Dear Dhaniei, Unfortunately, the fatness of the joy of seeing folks loving God's word and loving one another in it's study is far too lean these days. That was a prime example of the kind of attitude we love to see gracing our pages here at SBF. If I haven't taken the time to welcome you to the forum yet, I'd like to take this opportunity to do so. A warm welcome to the forum, Dhaniei! I have a question that has been troubling me though, Dhaniei, something I couldn't help reading in your profile that kinda bothers me, and if you don't mind my asking: why, pray tell, do you not call yourself a Christian? Few it is that I have met that have been saved by His amazing grace and oh so wonderfully abundant mercy, that would put their heritage above being called by His namesake... Christian. Thank you. John |
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175 | Faith a gift? | Eph 2:8 | stjohn | 219420 | ||
Amen! And what a wonderful gift it is! | ||||||
176 | Who are "the least of these?" | Matt 25:40 | stjohn | 219392 | ||
Dear Dhaniei, Can you please explain what you mean by your statement? --"I believe that all of Abraham's descendants, then and now, Jewish and Christian, fall under that promise, whether they receive Jesus or not,"-- John |
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177 | Who are "the least of these?" | Matt 25:40 | stjohn | 219389 | ||
Will you please post the scriptures that refer to this promise that, all descendants of Abraham fall under, whether or not they are Christians? It seems quite fundamentally flawed that, the children of the devil will receive the same blessings of the promise of those who believe and receive Jesus Christ will. What you are espousing sounds very much like universalism, which of course is a patently ludicrous heterodoxy. Sorry my friend I mean no ill, but you'll have a pretty hard time passing that doctrine around here. John |
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178 | All Don't Have The Same Ministry In Lord | 1 Cor 12:5 | stjohn | 219359 | ||
Dear Justme, Though I may not be quite as upset as you are, I do tend to agree with you. At the very least, someone speaking about themselves in the third person (quite fondly by the way) may reveal a disturbing personality disorder not associated with the Christian walk. Known in psychology as, NPD or, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, it reveals an unnatural unhealthy focus on ones self with undue praise and adoration. Very, very unlike what should be expected and indeed expressed by a humble Christian, walking after the image of our master Jesus Christ. John |
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179 | All Don't Have The Same Ministry In Lord | 1 Cor 12:5 | stjohn | 219356 | ||
Hi Justme, Thanks for your thoughts and concerns, it is much appreciated. I am cognizant of Mr. Martell's teaching, I've visited the website in question and read all that was available there. Everything has been taken into consideration, Justme. Thanks for your concern for proper orthodoxy and adherence to the TOU gracing our pages. John |
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180 | All Don't Have The Same Ministry In Lord | 1 Cor 12:5 | stjohn | 219348 | ||
Thanks for the clarification, Peter. So if you believe what you say then why the big enfaces on tongues? And how, pray tell, can it be a gift, if you teach it? That seems very much to me that you would be taking it and picking it for yourself. What do you tell those who just don't learn it? Are they half-baked Christians if they don't get the gift? Did they learn it on the first Pentecost when it first came to be? Or did the Holy Spirit just give it to them? John |
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