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Ariel82
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Seriously G777? None of your words address the fact that God doesn't promise to physically heal everyone and you ignore key scriptures.
Seriously G777? None of your words address the fact that God doesn't promise to physically heal everyone and you ignore key scriptures.
Seriously G777? None of your words address the fact that God doesn't promise to physically heal everyone and you ignore key scriptures.
Notice they praised Jesus in the beginning and then after Jesus told them not everyone gets healed,they were filled with wrath.
Many word of Faith people are the same way,when Jesus tells them He isn't going to heal their physical afflictions because he would rather heal their spiritual sickness and mend their relationship with God.
Luke 4
. 21And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” 23And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’” 24And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27And there were many lepersa in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 28When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
That's not what that is saying . The Jews were mad because Jesus was saying the gentiles were getting things before they were. All these people were Gentiles and not pure Jews that Jesus mentioned.
Jesus is speaking about their "unbelief" here.
Remember that Paul says the gentiles provoke the Jews to wrath and envy.
What weakness did Paul suffer from and why did God allow it?
2 Corinthians 12
7So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,a a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
What weakness did Paul suffer from and why did God allow it?
2 Corinthians 12
7So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,a a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I hold this verse close to my heart because my back with many prayers is still a problem. But what i have learned from pain has brought closer to God than any time in my life.
No it's talking about God's election to only heal certain people and not the whole countryside. God is not obligated to heal everyone...
Jesus only healed one man at the pool and there were many sitting there.
Jesus did not heal everyone He came in contact with. Only those whom God sent Him to heal for His purpose.
I hold this verse close to my heart because my back with many prayers is still a problem. But what i have learned from pain has brought closer to God than any time in my life.
Saul of Tartus was struck blind for 3 days.
Timothy had a stomach ailment that Paul said to drink a little wine to settle.
God doesn't give His children diseases because of the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. We would people in jail if they did that to their children.
The words "infirmity" and "weakness" are the same Greek words. Notice that in the context, it is not sickness which is being referred to.
2 Corinthians 11:29–30 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation? If I must boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
Some significant points regarding this passage:
- The phrase messenger of Satan doesn't refer to a disease or trials. The word messenger always refers to a living being, either human or angelic. This messenger of Satan is likely the Judaizers who are the ones who stirred up the dissension among the Jews which resulted in Paul being stoned in Acts 14:19
- Paul's trial seems to be a consequence of his revelation. His revelation is what gave him the confidence and courage to preach the gospel even when facing extreme persecution.
- This passage doesn't say Paul got his infirmity as a consequence of his revelation. There are no examples in the Bible of a person who God gave a disease as a consequence of a special revelation except maybe Jacob. However there are plenty of examples of people who had to face persecution as a consequence of revelation God had given them.
- Paul uses the phrase exalted above measure twice. From the wording it sounds like Paul believes God gave him these trials and tribulations on purpose to help keep his mind fixed on him. I don't believe God does this, but Paul may have mistakenly believed it.
Here is the link to the article that talks more about this.
Paul's Thorn in the Flesh — North Forest