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now im giving you an example of dissecting a post so much it becomes buried in meaningless ambiguity of many points and many words all blurring out the straight forward truth of a matter .
which can amount to a form of lying .. asking questions which flod the heart with doubt and uncertaintly -ie .. Did god reeeally say ...?
But I am asking "Did God really say?" and make no pretense of doing anything else. The question here is effectively "did God really say healing is guaranteed?".
There's no blurring of the straightforward truth, if anything it's about trying to find the truth by studying and reasoning rather than addressing questions with little more than vague comments about faith and carnal reasoning. I'm assuming God gave me a mind for a reason, and I can't "love the Lord with all of my mind" or "study to show (myself) approved" without using this particular tool that God gave me.
are there other kinds of doctors other then human ?
Now who is picking with silly arguments? I'm talking about going to a human doctor instead of assuming that the divine doctor in heaven will heal us. I'm sure you knew that.
- did anyone actually say outright that going to a doctor shows a lack of faith in God i recall i said it displays whom we have the most faith in ..as it depends upon whom we call on ..man or god to save us .
OK, let me reword it. Does going to work display where our faith is? If you disapprove of going to the doctor then logically you must also disapprove of going to work. It's not a huge leap to argue that you must also disapprove of looking before you cross the road, thereby trusting in your own understanding rather than in God's power to protect you from the trucks.
are you saying that having faith in God above all else is absurd ? thats absurd
Having faith in God is a good thing. Having faith in a promise God never made is not a good thing. Hence the whole point of the discussion, to determine whether God actually promised we would always be healed. But I still see a remarkable lack of Scripture and a remarkable abundance of rhetoric and vagueness to try and counter my questions.
do we need to counter the word of God who promises answer to all who ask him "believing "?
If you read my posts you'd see that I was expecting a discussion as to the apparent contradiction between the passage in James that suggests "they will be healed" and the passage in 1 Timothy that makes it clear Timothy wasn't healed. I had hoped for a rational discussion looking to see how to resolve the apparent contradiction but it appears I'm not going to be getting one any time soon.
But anyways, I'll ask again, if you believe that God will always heal how do you explain the fact that people around us demonstrably aren't healed, or indeed the fact that not only was Timothy not healed but Paul told him to "take a little wine" rather than "present yourself to the elders for prayer". If God would always heal we might ask why Paul didn't think of that, no?
sounds like you are .
Care to elaborate?
in what context ,, ? if we test the lords word to see if he is faithful and true to it .. we will be healed -is he Not faithful and true to His word ?
You're back to restating the original premise as an answer to the question about the validity of the original premise.
If I say "the sky is green" and you ask me why I say that, and I respond by saying "because the sky is green" I haven't added anything of value to the discussion. Repeating the original premise doesn't work. If we will be healed we might also ask why those who preach their messages of sickness having no place on earth end up sick themselves. I wonder why the churches that preach this stuff don't put the medical industry out of business overnight by offering healing to anyone who needs it. I must admit given the choice between thousands of dollars in medical bills or medical insurance, or a $100 donation to a church that saw me healed overnight thanks to prayer, I know which one I'd take.
if we have simply read the words .. and then we beleive ..how is that faith "blind " ..is there another kind of faith your on about ?
Blind faith insofar as it reads words and ignores context. It's the kind of blind faith that reads Job 22:28 and believes on the back of that one verse we can speak things into being. Hint: God didn't speak the words in Job 22:28, and the person who did, Eliphaz the Temanite, had a few choice words from God in Job 42:7.
are you saying that if we read the words of the bible as inspired by the holy Spirit and believe them.. that we are being deceived in doing so .. but if we trust in mans words over Gods words we do well? ? ?
Not at all, I'm saying if we pluck verses out of context we can be deceived. I'm sure you remember that when the devil tempted Jesus he presented him with words from Scripture. The devil quoted Scripture word for word, he just took it out of context and misapplied it. We do the same when we pluck a verse or two out of context and try to stand on a promise that isn't there.
So I'll ask again, if you want to claim that healing is guaranteed how do you explain Timothy's situation?
the truth is the lord JEsus said .. what ever you ask in my name according to my will i will do it - so the questions is not ..is he wrong .. but where are we wrong if it seems we do not get what we ask for ? James says it is because we ask amiss .. he also says if we ask wavering in unbelief that we must not think we will receive anything .. and so we don't .
OK, so now we need to ask what it means to "ask in Jesus' name". If I ask for a Lamborghini Aventador and add "in Jesus name" before the Amen am I guaranteed to receive one? One might think so if we look at the promise at face value, but if we think about it more in terms of asking for the things Jesus would have asked for had he been standing in our place it seems more likely we won't receive the supercar. When the one man who had the right to demand the kings of the earth lie down in his path so he could walk on their backs chose instead to ride into Jerusalem on a donkey that wasn't even his own, if we are to be asking in his name it seems far more likely that a modest vehicle that does the job is what he would go for. In other words asking for the Lamborghini is "asking amiss" regardless of what fancy words we put in our prayer.
If it is not God's will to do something then if we ask for it "in Jesus' name" then if anything we are taking Jesus' name in vain. We are pretending to be asking on his behalf when actually we are doing nothing of the sort. If we ask for healing and do not receive it, perhaps it isn't God's will to heal in that particular situation.