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NASB | Matthew 8:5 ¶ And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 8:5 ¶ As Jesus went into Capernaum, a centurion came up to Him, begging Him [for help], [Luke 7:1-10] |
Subject: A FALSE TEACHING? Yes / No |
Bible Note: Graceful If your alive you received that life and your breath long before you had any faith. "Lepers were not allowed to go into the city, much less the temple. Jesus said...Go show yourselves to the priests. Ed, would it not take faith to do that? " It would not require faith if they were cleansed, they would not be lepers. We also don't know if they went in or not, we do know only one returned in "faith" to say thank you. The Pslams tells us our works including faith died with us when we die. Lazarus I'm sure had no faith that Jesus would bring him back. However your right I can't prove that, but I think to say he had faith is grasping for straws. Moses did react in faith, but God gave him something before he had faith in it, and that was the point I was making. "You gave examples where the statement of the presence of faith is not stated. You have not disproved that we receive nothing from God except by faith in His Word." Graceful forget all my examples except one. Life itself both physical and spiritual God gave it to us before we had any faith. God gave us breath and God gave us His Son both were given to us outside our faith. God gave us health, He gave us prosperity (the poorest among us is richer that the richest in many countries), in many cases God gave us praying grandparents, parents, aunt and uncles, brothers and sisters that prayed for our salvation. God has given us a great nation, freedom, liberty and the right to preach His gospel. God has given us the sun to norish our planet, the moon to light our evenings, the stars to make us look skyward and wonder. God gave me two wonderful daughters when I was still without faith, from those daughters came 6 beautiful grandchildren. All that I have God has given me and much of it I recieved before I knew Him. Faith is important and I'm not downplaying faith at all. However faith has nothing if God does not allow it. Faith in God not faith in faith. EdB |