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It is Gods heart to heal.
It really seems like you choose to remove any notion of healing.
Like healing just doesn't suit you or something. Therefore you work to make verses say something else.
As I have stated earlier, they will interpret all these verses as "spiritual healing" from sins. That is a common interpretation from Christians who have already decided in their hearts that physical healing is not for us today. :)

And likewise, people who don't believe in financial prosperity would interpret 2 Cor 8:9 as Jesus being "spiritually poor at the cross", even though the context the entire chapter is about finances.
 
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No answer to the questiones i ask you.
To live in health and wealth is today no indicator for to live a God pleasant life.
And again, if you could show me where the writer of the NT teaches your doctrine, i would believedoctr
But there is not such a teaching. And the reality shows that this teaching is wrong.
I don't get you, if you don't want to believe healing is for you today, that is a choice you make. Deuteronomy 30:19

Why are you so eager to show that it is wrong for others for choosing to believe otherwise? Does it make you feel happier, vindicated about your own choice?
 

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I don't get you, if you don't want to believe healing is for you today, that is a choice you make. Deuteronomy 30:19

Why are you so eager to show that it is wrong for others for choosing to believe otherwise? Does it make you feel happier, vindicated about your own choice?
Where i said healing is not for today? This I never have said in my Posts.
I said, I cant find your teaching taught in the NT to the believers of the churches.
Of course you can believe what you want, but dont deceive others with a teaching the writers of the NT did not taught.
Your claim to be in the will of God with this teaching. Did we then not expect to find this teaching in the scripture for the Church?
 
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Where i said healing is not for today? This I never have said in my Posts.
I said, I cant find your teaching taught in the NT to the believers of the churches.
Of course you can believe what you want, but dont deceive others with a teaching the writers of the NT did not taught.
Your claim to be in the will of God with this teaching. Did we then not expect to find this teaching in the scripture for the Church?
As Deut 30:19 goes, God placed life and death, blessings and curses in front of each of us. Some of us want to choose life, choose blessings.

Why do you consider that as deceiving others? You are free to choose otherwise. :)
 

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As Deut 30:19 goes, God placed life and death, blessings and curses in front of each of us. Some of us want to choose life, choose blessings.

Why do you consider that as deceiving others? You are free to choose otherwise. :)
So you know to whom Deut. 30,19 ja written? If you claim it for you, then you should move to Israel. Then if you choose life and obidience to the law then your blessings is to live in the Land which God has promissed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deut 30,20
 

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That 2 gospel mess is heresy.
In acts 15 it goes into detail that the apostles and Paul were on the same page.
What is the Gospel to you? Maybe we need to read the whole Acts, better yet all the word of God. And we should also be grateful for Jesus' sacrifice, praising and worshipping Him instead of raising our own beliefs.
 

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If you want a discussion about the Gospel of the Kingdom vs Grace, start a new thread with your views and I will join in :)
Discussions or arguments about the word of God is actually like an insult to Him. I have great respect and Honor to my Creator and I love Him with all my heart and soul and mind and strength. I should spend all my time with Him and to people who have ears to listen. Thanks for reminding me.
 
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So you know to whom Deut. 30,19 ja written? If you claim it for you, then you should move to Israel. Then if you choose life and obidience to the law then your blessings is to live in the Land which God has promissed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deut 30,20
Galatians 3:14 said that Jesus has fulfilled the entire law on our behalf so that the blessings of Abraham, that was originally for the Jews only, now comes to us Gentiles, by faith in his finished work. :)

You think healing is not part of that finished work, that is fine. I choose to believe otherwise
 
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Discussions or arguments about the word of God is actually like an insult to Him. I have great respect and Honor to my Creator and I love Him with all my heart and soul and mind and strength. I should spend all my time with Him and to people who have ears to listen. Thanks for reminding me.
For my experience, one good thing about engaging with strangers over the Internet is this, you get to interact with people with very different views of life. Often the friends you meet in your daily life either think very much the same as you, for example church friends, or are unwilling to engage you in any deep intellectual topics. Furthermore, because you know one another in real life, the conversation is often very polite and you won’t really know what the other person really thinks.

But on the Internet, you solve both problems. First, you get to engage with people who think very differently from you. Second, because you will not meet each other in real life, you often get very frank opinions being shared.

There is a flip side to that second point of course, when you know for sure you will never meet them in real life, its much easier for some of them to start insulting you and making other personal remarks while debating, that is unfortunate but is something that is beyond your control.

But the good thing of course, is that only with debating others, that you have an incentive to understand more the other party’s view of the issue, and whether or not you agree with them in the end, your knowledge base expands.
 

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Galatians 3:14 said that Jesus has fulfilled the entire law on our behalf so that the blessings of Abraham, that was originally for the Jews only, now comes to us Gentiles, by faith in his finished work. :)

You think healing is not part of that finished work, that is fine. I choose to believe otherwise
Yes, but you claime what is spoken to the folk of Israel.In the past. And not to us. If you consider deut 30, 19 then yoz have also to consider vers 20 and the verses before 19. But this is when the bible is used as a wish book. Take what you want, doesnt matter irs correct ore not so long it fit in my thinking.
This is a result of takeing verses out of the context.
 
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Yes, but you claime what is spoken to the folk of Israel.In the past. And not to us. If you consider deut 30, 19 then yoz have also to consider vers 20 and the verses before 19. But this is when the bible is used as a wish book. Take what you want, doesnt matter irs correct ore not so long it fit in my thinking.
This is a result of takeing verses out of the context.
You will make more sense if you examine what Gal 3:14 is saying instead.
 

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For my experience, one good thing about engaging with strangers over the Internet is this, you get to interact with people with very different views of life. Often the friends you meet in your daily life either think very much the same as you, for example church friends, or are unwilling to engage you in any deep intellectual topics. Furthermore, because you know one another in real life, the conversation is often very polite and you won’t really know what the other person really thinks.

But on the Internet, you solve both problems. First, you get to engage with people who think very differently from you. Second, because you will not meet each other in real life, you often get very frank opinions being shared.

There is a flip side to that second point of course, when you know for sure you will never meet them in real life, its much easier for some of them to start insulting you and making other personal remarks while debating, that is unfortunate but is something that is beyond your control.

But the good thing of course, is that only with debating others, that you have an incentive to understand more the other party’s view of the issue, and whether or not you agree with them in the end, your knowledge base expands.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind everyone about these things, and command them in God's presence to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.

Psalm 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in people.

Matthew 4:7
Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also say, 'You must not test the LORD your God.'"

Matthew 13:9-16
9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes,hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
 

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You will make more sense if you examine what Gal 3:14 is saying instead.
I live under the NT and not umder the OT.
Well, if you examine Gal.3, 14 why you then claim deut. 30, 19? You are mixing Gods word and create from this an doctrine. Thats doing cults like JW also.
 
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I live under the NT and not umder the OT.
Well, if you examine Gal.3, 14 why you then claim deut. 30, 19? You are mixing Gods word and create from this an doctrine. Thats doing cults like JW also.
You must be hopelessly confused. Are you not aware Galatians is in the NT and is written to the Gentile Church? What does 3:14 says to you?
 

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As I have stated earlier, they will interpret all these verses as "spiritual healing" from sins. That is a common interpretation from Christians who have already decided in their hearts that physical healing is not for us today. :)

And likewise, people who don't believe in financial prosperity would interpret 2 Cor 8:9 as Jesus being "spiritually poor at the cross", even though the context the entire chapter is about finances.

Luke 9:58 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
58 He answered, “The foxes have holes to live in. The birds have nests. But the Son of Man has no place where he can rest his head.”
 

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Yes, but you claime what is spoken to the folk of Israel.In the past. And not to us. If you consider deut 30, 19 then yoz have also to consider vers 20 and the verses before 19. But this is when the bible is used as a wish book. Take what you want, doesnt matter irs correct ore not so long it fit in my thinking.
This is a result of takeing verses out of the context.
Deuteronomy 30 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
The Israelites Will Return to Their Land
30 “Everything that I have mentioned will happen to you—both the blessings and the curses. And you will remember these words when the Lord your God sends you away to other nations. 2 Then you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord your God. You will follow him with all your heart and completely obey all his commands that I have given you today. 3 Then the Lord your God will be kind to you. The Lord your God will make you free again! He will bring you back from the nations where he sent you. 4 Even if you were sent to the farthest parts of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you from there and bring you back. 5 The Lord your God will bring you into the land your ancestors had, and the land will become yours. He will do good to you, and you will have more than your ancestors had. You will have more people in your nation than they ever had. 6 The Lord your God will make you and your descendants want to obey him.[a] Then you will love the Lord your God with all your heart. And you will live!

7 “Then the Lord your God will make all these bad things happen to your enemies, who hate you and cause you trouble. 8 And you will again obey the Lord. You will obey all his commands that I give you today. 9 The Lord your God will make you successful in everything you do. He will bless you with many children. He will bless your cows—they will have many calves. He will bless your fields—they will grow many good crops. He will be good to you. The Lord will again enjoy doing good for you, the same as he enjoyed doing good for your ancestors. 10 But you must do what the Lord your God tells you to do. You must obey his commands and follow the rules that are written in this Book of Teachings. You must obey the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Then these good things will happen to you.

Life or Death
11 “This command that I give you today is not too hard for you. It is not a secret hidden in some far away land. 12 This command is not in heaven so that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it to us, so that we can hear and do it?’ 13 This command is not on the other side of the sea so that you should say, ‘Who will go across the sea for us and bring it to us, so that we can hear it and do it?’ 14 No, the word is very near to you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. So you can obey it.

15 “Today I have given you a choice between life and death, success and disaster. 16 I command you today to love the Lord your God. I command you to follow him and to obey his commands, laws, and rules. Then you will live, and your nation will grow larger. And the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take for your own. 17 But if you turn away from your God and refuse to listen, if you are led away to worship and serve other gods, 18 you will be destroyed. I am warning you today, if you turn away from God, you will not live long in that land across the Jordan River that you are ready to enter and take for your own.

19 “Today I am giving you a choice of two ways. And I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses of your choice. You can choose life or death. The first choice will bring a blessing. The other choice will bring a curse. So choose life! Then you and your children will live. 20 You must love the Lord your God and obey him. Never leave him, because he is your life. And he will give you a long life in the land that he, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
 

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You will make more sense if you examine what Gal 3:14 is saying instead.
Galatians 3 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
God’s Blessing Comes Through Faith
3 You people in Galatia are so foolish! Why do I say this? Because I told you very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But now it seems as though you have let someone use their magical powers to make you forget. 2 Tell me this one thing: How did you receive the Spirit? Did you receive the Spirit by following the law? No, you received the Spirit because you heard the message about Jesus and believed it. 3 You began your life in Christ with the Spirit. Now do you try to complete it by your own power? That is foolish. 4 You have experienced many things. Were all those experiences wasted? I hope they were not wasted! 5 Does God give you the Spirit because you follow the law? Does God work miracles among you because you follow the law? No, God gives you his Spirit and works miracles among you because you heard the message about Jesus and believed it.

6 The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham. “Abraham believed God, and because of this faith he was accepted as one who is right with God.”[a] 7 So you should know that the true children of Abraham are those who have faith. 8 The Scriptures told what would happen in the future. These writings said that God would make the non-Jewish people right through their faith. God told this Good News to Abraham before it happened. God said to Abraham, “I will use you to bless all the people on earth.” 9 Abraham believed this, and because he believed, he was blessed. All people who believe are blessed the same as Abraham was.

10 But people who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse. As the Scriptures say, “They must do everything that is written in the law. If they do not always obey, they are under a curse.”[c] 11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by the law. The Scriptures say, “The one who is right with God by faith will live forever.”[d]

12 The law does not depend on faith. No, it says that the only way a person will find life by the law is to obey its commands.[e] 13 The law says we are under a curse for not always obeying it. But Christ took away that curse. He changed places with us and put himself under that curse. The Scriptures say, “Anyone who is hung on a tree[f] is under a curse.”[g] 14 Because of what Jesus Christ did, the blessing God promised to Abraham was given to all people. Christ died so that by believing in him we could have the Spirit that God promised.

The Law and the Promise
15 Brothers and sisters, let me give you an example from everyday life: Think about an agreement that one person makes with another. After that agreement is made official, no one can stop it or add anything to it, and no one can ignore it. 16 God made promises to Abraham and his Descendant.[h] The Scripture does not say, “and to your descendants.” That would mean many people. But it says, “and to your Descendant.” That means only one, and that one is Christ. 17 This is what I mean: The agreement that God gave to Abraham was made official long before the law came. The law came 430 years later. So the law could not take away the agreement and change God’s promise.

18 Can following the law give us the blessing God promised? If we could receive it by following the law, then it would not be God’s promise that brings it to us. But God freely gave his blessings to Abraham through the promise God made.

19 So what was the law for? The law was given to show the wrong things people do. The law would continue until the special Descendant of Abraham came. This is the Descendant mentioned in the promise, which came directly from God. But the law was given through angels, and the angels used Moses as a mediator to give the law to the people. 20 But when God gave the promise, there was no mediator, because a mediator is not needed when there is only one side, and God is one.

The Purpose of the Law of Moses
21 Does this mean that the law works against God’s promises? Of course not. The law was never God’s way of giving new life to people. If it were, then we could be made right with God by following the law. 22 But this is not possible. The Scriptures put the whole world in prison under the control of sin, so that the only way for people to get what God promised would be through faith in[j] Jesus Christ. It is given to those who believe in him.

23 Before this faith came, the law held us as prisoners. We had no freedom until God showed us the way of faith that was coming. 24 I mean the law was the guardian in charge of us until Christ came. After he came, we could be made right with God through faith. 25 Now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law to be our guardian.

26-27 You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This shows that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 28 Now, in Christ, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or free, male or female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus. 29 You belong to Christ, so you are Abraham’s descendants. You get all of God’s blessings because of the promise that God made to Abraham.
 

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2 Timothy 2:14
Remind everyone about these things, and command them in God's presence to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.

Psalm 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in people.

Matthew 4:7
Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also say, 'You must not test the LORD your God.'"

Matthew 13:9-16
9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes,hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
2 Timothy 2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
A Loyal Soldier of Christ Jesus
2 Timothy, you are a son to me. Be strong in the grace that we have because we belong to Christ Jesus. 2 What you have heard me teach publicly you should teach to others. Share these teachings with people you can trust. Then they will be able to teach others these same things. 3 As a good soldier of Christ Jesus, accept your share of the troubles we have. 4 A soldier wants to please his commanding officer, so he does not spend any time on activities that are not a part of his duty. 5 Athletes in a race must obey all the rules to win. 6 The farmer who works hard deserves the first part of the harvest. 7 Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you understand it all.

8 Remember Jesus Christ. He is from the family of David. After Jesus died, he was raised from death. This is the Good News that I tell people. 9 And because I tell that message, I am suffering. I am even bound with chains like someone who has really done wrong. But God’s message is not bound. 10 So I patiently accept all these troubles. I do this to help the people God has chosen so that they can have the salvation that is in Christ Jesus. With this salvation comes glory that never ends.

11 Here is a true statement:

If we died with him,
we will also live with him.
12 If we remain faithful even in suffering,
we will also rule with him.
If we refuse to say we know him,
he will refuse to say he knows us.
13 If we are not faithful,
he will still be faithful,
because he cannot be false to himself.

A Worker Who Pleases God
14 Keep on telling everyone these truths. And warn them before God not to argue about words. Such arguments don’t help anyone, and they ruin those who listen to them. 15 Do your best to be the kind of person God will accept, and give yourself to him. Be a worker who has no reason to be ashamed of his work, one who applies the true teaching in the right way.

16 Stay away from people who talk about useless things that are not from God. That kind of talk will lead a person more and more against God. 17 Their evil teaching will spread like a sickness inside the body. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men like that. 18 They have left the true teaching. They say that the day when people will be raised from death has already come and gone. And they are destroying the faith of some people.

19 But God’s strong foundation never moves, and these words are written on it: “The Lord knows those who belong to him.”[a] Also, these words are written there: “Everyone who says they believe in the Lord must stop doing wrong.”

20 In a large house there are things made of gold and silver. But there are also things made of wood and clay. Some of these are used for special purposes, others for ordinary jobs. 21 The Lord wants to use you for special purposes, so make yourself clean from all evil. Then you will be holy, and the Master can use you. You will be ready for any good work.

22 Stay away from the evil things a young person like you typically wants to do. Do your best to live right and to have faith, love, and peace, together with others who trust in the Lord with pure hearts. 23 Stay away from foolish and stupid arguments. You know that these arguments grow into bigger arguments. 24 As a servant of the Lord, you must not argue. You must be kind to everyone. You must be a good teacher, and you must be patient. 25 You must gently teach those who don’t agree with you. Maybe God will let them change their hearts so that they can accept the truth. 26 The devil has trapped them and now makes them do what he wants. But maybe they can wake up to see what is happening and free themselves from the devil’s trap.