Subject: Divine Healing? |
Bible Note: EdB, Exodus 4:11 doesn't convince me. It says that He made the mute, it doesn't say that He made the mute be mute. It definately says that He created the individual which is mute but I don't see much more than that. What does God have to gain from a mute or deaf disciple? What other reason does the world have to get saved than because they want what we have? They want to feel loved, we have the love of God living in us. They want to go to Heaven when they die, we're already going. They want to be healed, we were healed at Calvary. They want to be deaf...wait a minute...who wants to be deaf? What other attraction to the Christian life than it's better than living in the world? Also, I agree it's far better to see a man come to Jesus than to see a man walk for the first time in years. However, if God healing that man can increase his zeal for God and help him to lead others to Christ then I'm all for it. I don't know one person who was saved because they got up and said, "Praise God i'm blind!" But I do know that my own mother was healed supernaturaly and that played an intrical part in eventually leading my father, brother, and I to Christ. This is not just my experience it happened in the Bible too. Look at Acts 3 and 4. In these chapters, God heals a lame man through Peter and John. Then the lame man walks into the temple and Peter and John explain what happened, preach Christ, and though they are arrested, look at chapter 4 verse 4. Many believed. Now if you lead a man to salvation that saves him and maybe his family. If a man gets healed, it is a testimony of God's love and power that also has the abuility to reach many more. I am not saying that a man being healed is greater than a man being saved, but I think in an effort to prove your point that you minimized the effectiveness of divine healing. Jesified |