Sunday, February 18, 2007

You presume too much


The You Tube (pulled by site) title reads:

Robert Tilton failed faith healing

The secondary title reads:

A man is seen grimacing in pain after being "healed" of a broken collar bone.

According to the New Testament record Jesus, the Apostles and certain disciples empowered by God performed some supernatural healings. For example in John, Chapter 11, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. In Acts, Chapter 8, Simon the Sorcerer observed signs and great miracles taking place through Philip. The Biblical concept seems to be that God can empower someone to perform a healing, but so often I think certain people want to make supernatural things happen and for this reason scepticism is healthy in regard to healing and miracles. It seems apparent that the man in the clip was not healed as the preacher avoided the situation and moved on.

1 John 5: 14-15 from the New American Standard Bible mentions that if persons ask things according to God's will, God will hear these prayers that become requests.

And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him.


From these verses I take the idea that by being within God's will requests will be heard. This concept would not guarantee supernatural healing in a given situation but would make it from a Biblical perspective, possible.

According to Millard J. Erickson as Hebrews 9: 27 explains each person is to die and be judged, obviously persons are not intended to live forever in the present earthly body. Erickson (1994: 841). Therefore, all human beings shall eventually die and divine healing is not guaranteed in this life and should not be presumed unless a person is overwhelmingly lead by the Holy Spirit to heal someone. If this is the case a true healing should result, and not a phony one.

ERICKSON, Millard. (1994) Christian Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.

8 comments:

  1. http://thekingpin68.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

    The above link from my philosophical theology blog bundles by links my previous articles on this blog concerning televangelists. The articles can of course be found within this blog's archives

    Cheers:)

    Russ

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  2. I'm wondering if this preacher knows if he is actually healing everyone he touches and prays for. People seemingly come to him to be genuinely healed. This minister should be more responsible in following up on his actions in other people's lives. He has a responsibility to be accountable in this area. Before people come to this person to be healed they should know if he is legitimate or not. My opinion and from observation of televangelists is that they are fraudulent and phony!" Take heed people and beware of these swindlers and conartists who try to take your money!
    -Bluff off phony Healer!-

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  4. Jesus saves. He inspired George Washington Carver to invent peanut butter. And peanut butter has saved me.

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  5. Those just kill me-- Benny Hinn, he's another one. They truly give new meaning to, "knocking the hell outta someone."

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  6. http://satireandtheology.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post.html

    Please check it out. It's Benny.

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