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NASB | James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? He must call for the elders (spiritual leaders) of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; |
Subject: Healing through prayer? |
Bible Note: Your Note iktoose I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned faith. I think there are three kinds. One that believes they have a headache and aspirin will help. Another that believes they have a headache and God through Doctors and researchers have given a cure it is aspirin. The third that believes God will heal their headache when asked. Is there anything wrong with this picture? No I think it is amounts to faith and in what you put your faith. In one their faith in aspirin, in the next it is in God first and aspirin as God's tool. The last is God exclusively. The only problem would be the person that says God has to heal me when I ask. That to me is presumption and is making man sovereign rather than God. There is also those that believe if they don’t confess a headache they don’t have a headache. Or of the confess they feel fine they will be fine. That is steeped in metaphysicalism and borders on lying to oneself and to others when asked how they feel. They are the ones that want to believe reality is not reality but rather an illusion that Satan generates. There simply isn’t any scriptural support for that position. EdB |