Absolutely said:
When did they lay hands on you,as is the pattern in the bible and in our modern day as is the testimony of thousands baptized in The Holy Spirit authenticated by the word.
...or are you re establishing what Jesus does with your "understanding"
According to the pattern/parable or the substance. The heavenly things themselves?
I would say that the word of God defines the patterns he uses in a parables. And the laying on of hands a ceremonial law is not exempt. Searching for the hidden understanding is how the Holy Spirit worked in men as the power of the gospel . They knew of the suffering of Christ beforehand and the glory that followed. It was the purpose of using patterns as parables, preach the suffering of Christ beforehand the gospel
God strengthened their faith by looking ahead by faith as he strengthens as the same mutual faith of Christ that works in us to look back to the demonstration.
Receiving
the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.Of which
salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:Searching what, or what
manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did
signify, when
it testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.1 Peter 1:9-11
Many today say men did not have the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. If not I would wonder just what did strengthen their faith or did they have no faith?
Leviticus 16:20-22 King James Version (KJV) And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: And Aaron shall
lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:And
the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Now of course ceremonial laws are empty shadows as signs that again pointed ahead to Jesus our scapegoat.
literally putting a hand on someone's head might move their head to investigate who touched me? . But like water it can only get a person wet and will dry up.
A person would need to seek the 20 /20 prescription (2 Corinthians 4:18) in order the receive the unseen eternal understanding.
The foundation for the laying on of hands doctrine is established as a ceremonial law not subject to change by a oral tradition of men.
As always the old testament sets the standard preparing for the greater brighter light the last days through a demonstrations with His Son.
In the new testament God has spoken through His Son giving us demonstrations to help us understand the use of the words . Hand, it represent the unseen will of God . Head as the mind of God. Mind and will both working together to do will and perform his good pleasure . (imputed righteousness). I would think not a touchy feely pleasure that we could have thinking God is served by human hands and does need the clay to help him form Christ in us.
Jesus our scape goat. When establishing the new manner of priesthood of believers as our high priest coming from the tribe of Judah was baptized by the last Levite John to be become a member of the new priesthood as our high priest after the order of Melchezedek . On His first mission he was to be sent out into the wilderness as our scapegoat. The father laid his will according to his good purpose laying words in on the heart of Jesus of the Son of man .He said again, again as it is written, Not after a shadow as a ceremonial law. Walk by the unseen eternal not after what they eyes see the temporal .
Good lesson on that in Acts 14 the apostles laying hands and those who have no faith made them into the likeness of gods many .they would have nothing to do with laying of hands the work accredited to the corrupted hands of men
No such thing a "sign gift" .Sign as a cerinimoinal laws yes. (tongues, baptisms, circumcisions , laying on of hands , some today to add to the list of fll yer up ...fall back slain? What's next? Holy laughter? .
Sign are as a curse directed at those who have no faith... that exclusively work of God comes as prophecy as it is written, yes .
The thing is.... yet for all of those warning they still refuse to believe all things written in the law and the prophets and hold tightly to their oral traditions of those who do seek after signs and wonder before they will believe. something.
John 6:3 They said therefore unto him, What
sign shewest thou then,
that we may see, and
believe thee? what dost thou work?
John 4:48Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see
signs and wonders, ye will
not believe.