Comments on: WWJD?—No, seriously.

By: shine.is.dead

shine.is.dead — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:22:00 +0000

Actually, the “it” I’m refering to is the Canon of Scripture, however that was a bit fragmentary. Shame upon me.

By: code

code — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:25:00 +0000

"5. Healing was used as a sign of authority by early believers before the completion of the Canon. It is now the sign of our authority."

5. Healing was used as a sign of authority by early believers before the completion of the Canon. It is NOT the sign of our authority.

I think you meant "not" rather than "now". Maybe I'm wrong.

And healed has one 'e'.

That said - interesting rebuttal.

By: shine.is.dead

shine.is.dead — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:45:00 +0000

If I can follow your argument, which I believe I can, you're trying to argue that we as believers should heal every sickness that we come across.

Now let me make this clear: I believe that God heals today. I also believe that the power to heal is God's and not ours.

With that being said, you're overlooking a few things here:

1. Not everyone in the Bible is heealed from illness. (Notably Paul and Timothy)

2. God never promises to heal everyone (in this life anyway).

3. At times God uses illness to strengthen people. (Job for example)

4. It is up to God who he decides to heal, not us.

5. Healing was used as a sign of authority by early believers before the completion of the Canon. It is now the sign of our authority.

6. Many people persistently pray for healing and have faith that God will heal them, but he doesn't. How would you explain that?

I don't question the passages that you have given here, and again, let me stress that I believe God heals today. I just think that it's a bit presumptuous and dangerous to believe and preach that God will heal eveyone. He clearly doesn't.