Why Covid 19 When We Have Healing Power

I have heard WOF use that line that it is God's will to heal everyone.

Paul had the thorn in the flesh problem that history tells us was his eyes.

1 Timothy 5:23
Do not drink water only, but take a little wine to help your digestion, since you are sick so often.


There is some evidence in Scripture that Paul had an eye problem. He spoke of the large letters he used in writing to the Galatians (Galatians 6:11). He also declared that the Galatians would have plucked out their own eyes and given them to him (Galatians 4:13-15). Some have suggested that this may have been a chronic eye disease or an injury suffered when he was stoned in Lystra (Acts 14:19,20).

Any church that teaches one must speak in tongues is against the Bible Doctrines.

You are mind reader now? puzzled

I once challenged a person WOF to ask God to heal his sight. He stop wearing glasses and got into car wrecks. He kept telling the police God healed his eyesight. Too bad the eye doctor disagreed --- they took his drivers license away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faith_Healers
https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Healers-James-Randi/dp/0879755350

Context???

Your proof is? what? thanks

It is His will, several times in scripture it states Jesus healed them all, no one since has had the same perfect results. some have gotten close. The problem is never on His end, it is always down here.

Mark 6
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples
Then Jesus went to the villages around there, teaching the people. 7 He called the twelve disciples together and sent them out two by two. He gave them authority over the evil spirits 8 and ordered them, “Don't take anything with you on the trip except a walking stick—no bread, no beggar's bag, no money in your pockets. 9 Wear sandals, but don't carry an extra shirt.” 10 He also told them, “Wherever you are welcomed, stay in the same house until you leave that place. 11 If you come to a town where people do not welcome you or will not listen to you, leave it and shake the dust off your feet. That will be a warning to them!”

12 So they went out and preached that people should turn away from their sins. 13 They drove out many demons, and rubbed olive oil on many sick people and healed them.

In context, Jesus was speaking only to his Apostles who were called disciples at that time. The text in context does not refer to all Christians of all time.

Context still matters.

"hands of the apostles " their authority from Jesus, not yours.

Absolutely- I don't think he grasps the "authority" part, among other issues and only desires to argue.
best wishes

Ah, Philip the Apostle was one of the 12 main disciples of Jesus Christ.

Philip had that authority as an Apostle.

Again, you are NOT JESUS You do not have an Messianic Ministry of Jesus.

The Authority of an Apostle is not what we everyday Christians have.

Acts 1
21-22 “So then, someone must join us as a witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He must be one of the men who were in our group during the whole time that the Lord Jesus traveled about with us, beginning from the time John preached his message of baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us to heaven.”

23 So they proposed two men: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas (also known as Justus), and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed, “Lord, you know the thoughts of everyone, so show us which of these two you have chosen 25 to serve as an apostle in the place of Judas, who left to go to the place where he belongs.” 26 Then they drew lots to choose between the two men, and the one chosen was Matthias, who was added to the group of eleven apostles.

Romans 1:1
From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostle chosen and called by God to preach his Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:1-2
Rights and Duties of an Apostle
Am I not a free man? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus our Lord? And aren't you the result of my work for the Lord?
Even if others do not accept me as an apostle, surely you do! Because of your life in union with the Lord you yourselves are proof of the fact that I am an apostle.

1 Corinthians 12:29
They are not all apostles or prophets or teachers. Not everyone has the power to work miracles

2 Corinthians 1:1
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and from our brother Timothy— To the church of God in Corinth, and to all God's people throughout Achaia:

Galatians 1:1
From Paul, whose call to be an apostle did not come from human beings or by human means, but from Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from death.

Ephesians 4:11
It was he who “gave gifts to people”; he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers.

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God bless you all

When I was first converted in the AOG, I never knew what the righteousness of Christ was all about. It seemed to imply that the righteousness of Christ with some kind of conformity to the righteousness that Jesus had. I think the implication might have come from the Methodist Holiness movement, from where traditional Pentecostalism grew out from. That movement stressed personal holiness almost to the point of legalism.

It was not until I started studying Puritan writers that it dawned on me that the righteousness of Christ was given to us as the gift of God and was not related to our good works or personal holiness at all. And if we link that with the Scripture that tells us that the gifts and calling of God are without repentance, and that God's throne of grace is always open to us for us to find mercy and grace to help in our time of need, then it shows that a genuine believer cannot backslide into sin without the Holy Spirit within in loudly protesting against it.

That is my experience anyway. During my storm and stress years where in some ways I did fall off the wagon of grace, the Holy Spirit within me kept on at me repeatedly saying, "This is not you!" And when I came to to the point where I acknowledged that what I was doing was not what God intended for me, He said, "Don't stop talking to me about it, and we can work through this." And so we did, and my life was turned back around and I was back on the path of sanctification.

We are always going to have struggles with the flesh. It will always be a thorn in our sides to trip us up, and when it does, the devil is always there to drop condemnation bombs on us.

The AOG never taught me that Paul's experience in Romans 7 was his present experience as a Christian believer. I think they interpret it as what he experienced as a Pharisee before he got converted. But that interpretation doesn't agree with his description of himself as being "blameless in respect of the Law". This shows that he didn't have any conflict with his flesh before conversion, because his life was totally in the flesh, and the flesh doesn't have conflict with itself.

The Apostle John is correct when he says that those who are born of God cannot sin - because they don't want to, and sin is their enemy. They hate sin and fight against it any way they can.

I think also, that the AOG accept "easy believerism" that through a simple "sinner's prayer" a person can be totally converted to Christ. This is not correct. Genuine conversion must be earnestly sought for and it is a transformation work within the person through the baptism with the Spirit. This should happen at the first instance when a person embraces Christ, but because of the "easy believerism" without a true transformation, the AOG adds that transformation as their form of the baptism with the Spirit as a second blessing.

In fact, it is the first blessing of true conversion and total transformation of the heart. Now, I am not saying that a person is not saved when he comes to Christ praying the sinner's prayer. That saves him, but the baptism with the Spirit transforms him and causes him to be born again. That's why I believe that a person should not consider himself truly converted to Christ until he (or she) is baptised with the Spirit.

Now, the gifts are the Holy Spirit's tools of trade. A person can be baptised with the Spirit without immediately using any of the gifts, including tongues. Saying that tongues is the evidence of the baptism with the Spirit is incorrect. Faith, along with the total transformation of the heart and spirit is the initial evidence. The gifts appear later. An engineer has to go to university and be fully qualified before he starts on the job using engineering tools.

That is correct!

Thank you for that input!

Any medical validation of your claim?

I once had a tooth pulled by Jesus and He replaced it with a solid gold one, all in one night!

Why not Ask me if I can validate that claim with medical proof????

You do realize that your posts are embarrassing you....right?

You NEVER use any Scripture to support your claims. Your OPINIONS are always focused more on a personal level that a doctrinal position.

Act 6
8 Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

Stephen wasn't apostle and perform sign and wonder