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The elephant in the room which many don't see is the lack of clear New Testament references that directly promises guaranteed healing for Christian believers. The Old Testament Scriptures that promise healing were directed to the Israelites coming out of Egypt and during their time in the...

The reference says that the viper fastened itself on to Paul's hand. The only way a snake can do that is with its fangs. The observers saw it and knew that he had actually been bitten. They fully expected him to swell up with the poison and fall down dead, thinking it happened to him because...

I think that the conflict is between theory and reality. I am certain that the Bible promises healing for those who ask God for it. There are too many clear promises in Scripture to deny it. These promises are what I define as "theory". Those who believe and teach that God always heals those...

That is a dangerous teaching. Many have died needlessly because they were prayed for and then told they were healed. So they stopped taking their medication and did not return to the doctor. As a result, what was a treatable condition caused their deaths. When Jesus or Paul prayed for a sick...

If you are teaching that Christian believers should automatically be instantly healed as the result of prayer or laying on of hands, how come it doesn't happen to you when you get a cold, a headache, or pull a muscle while digging the garden? Paul said in Romans 3, "If you are teaching others...

This seems to me to be a realistic way of looking at it.

But my question is, are your automatically healed through prayer when you get sick? If not, then where is your faith? Aren't you judging someone's faith, when your faith is at the same level?

But I don't see anything in the New Testament that guarantees automatic healing for Christian believers. So how does it "line up with the Word of God"?

That was said to the Israelites who came out of Egypt. It doesn't seem to work with modern believers somehow. I wonder if the Scripture doesn't directly apply to us in terms of automatic guaranteed healing?

Paul said something interesting in the first part of Romans. He asks, "What right do you have to judge others when you do the same things yourself?" In saying this, Paul shows the hypocrisy of those who judge others when they are in the same boat as them. The context is that there are those...

There were a lot of pages in the thread and it would have taken me all of today and the rest of the week to read them. So I read just a few. This is my position on divine healing: All the examples of miraculous healing attached to Paul's ministry were part of his preaching of the Gospel to...

What we fail to appreciate is that miraculous signs and wonders accompanying the preaching of the Gospel were common-place in the first century. In fact, preaching the Gospel was not genuine unless the signs and wonders were present. That is why Paul had limited results in Athens, because he...

This suggests that God is like a vending machine who automatically answers people's prayer the way they want. But God isn't like that. He receives our requests but doesn't guarantee specific answers to them. Instead, He gives each person who makes a request His peace that passes all...

I know what that feels like. I attended many teachers' meetings during my teaching career and many of them were yawners. We also had some boring preachers at church and I would position myself behind a large person so I could shut my eyes without the preacher seeing me!

The original meaning of the word "ἀπόστολος" is "messenger" or "sent one". it comes from the Septuagint word "apostolein" meaning "one who is sent". When we consider this meaning of the word, the term certainly fits anyone who is sent to be a missionary to preach the gospel and to plant...

My point wasn't about the modern occurrence of apostles and prophets. I don't think those ministries are possible today because for them to work there has to be a totally unified Christian church, which there isn't. The ministries are for the whole body of Christ, not just for a particular...

Although I have doubts as to modern apostles and prophets, one cannot change the meaning of verses of Scripture to support a particular theology. To make Ephesians 2:20 mean that the apostles and prophets were involved in the initial founding of the church and once the church was established...

Here is an analysis of the verse: Cessationists use Ephesians 2:20 to show that the work of Apostles and Prophets were just for the initial founding of the church, and once the church was established and the canon of Scripture was revealed, the work of Apostles and Prophets, along with the...

A comment I want to make concerning the Charismatic movement. When I came into the Pentecostal movement in 1966, most of the teaching was Scripture-based. We had a good AOG pastor to did a complete exposition of the book of Galatians. At the same time I encountered the early Charismatics who...

They were brave men who fought for what they believed in. They are a part of history although some would like to erase them from history and rewrite it to make out that these men were evil slave supporters, when in fact all they were, were soldiers loyal to the South and fought for its...