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NASB | John 7:17 "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 7:17 "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority. |
Subject: What is preaching Christ? |
Bible Note: Hi Mitch, Ephesians 2 tells us that saving faith is a gift from God. So He is not dependant on our having saving faith, because He gives us saving faith. But I would like to stay focused on this topic of sickness if we could. Whether a person went to hell or not could be a matter of faith, but it could also be a matter of choice. This is an entirely different subject, maybe we could save it for next. So we agree then that suffering from whatever source God takes responsibility for in allowing it into our lives? (Speaking of the redeemed) Of the "blessings and cursings", does what you wrote mean that you do not acknowledge a fundamental difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, in that the Old is directed at the external, the phyisical, while the New is directed at the internal, the spiritual? Do you believe that we should be living in Israel, for instance? Now, regarding Job, you say that God "had to allow" Satan to have his way with Job. What is your specific Scriptural foundation for this claim? If God had to allow Satan access to Job, why would God have been allowed to hedge Job about in the first place? Why would not Satan have been able to march up to God previously, demanding his right to torment Job? This doesn't make sense to me. My point for the passage in James is this. If we are to be disease free, and can be if we have faith, then to have a disease would be sin. Being diseased would not be of faith, which is defined as sin. To have to go to the elders for prayer would be to acknowledge living in a sinfull condition, living outside of faith. Yet the passages reads in such a way that sin is not assumed, but recognizes that sin may or may not be present. So this person, who is unable to free themself of their disease by their faith, is not assumed by James to be in sin. So why should I assume that this person is in sin, even though that are not able to be healed by their own faith? Thank you for clarifying a few points for me. So let me ask you this: Do you believe that God allows suffering in our lives because suffering is part of our sanctification? Love in Christ, Mark |