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Key
Statement/Teaching |
Paragraph |
God
has healed in different degrees for different purposes.
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2 |
God
not healing today in same manner as New Testament times.
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5 |
Most biblical instances are physically oriented on the
human body.
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7 |
Healing is an act of God's divine grace.
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14 |
God
healed for different reasons in different circumstances.
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19 |
Despite the great powers bestowed and miracles performed
through God's spirit, Elisha himself was not healed of
some sort of sickness but actually died from it.
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20 |
God
does desire to heal our diseases, to eliminate our
afflictions, and to bring us out of distress. But what
He will actually do in any given situation remains
unknowably beyond our limited understanding.
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21 |
Paul writes that Epaphroditus was very ill, almost to
the point of death (Phil. 2:25-27). But God had mercy on
him. Healing was here given as an example of mercy, not
of faith or obligation (or at least not of these alone).
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22 |
God's earnest desire is for all human beings to live an
abundant life in perfect health.
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35 |
God
has designed the human body to function in good health
for the full span of one's allotted years.
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37 |
The
biblical record makes plain that God can intervene on
behalf of the sick and heal them according to faith
and/or other factors.
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41 |
Healing is a "special benefit" which God has made
available to His Church.
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41 |
At
all times, whether sin is involved or not, healing is a
manifestation of God's mercy and an exemplification of
God's love.
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50 |
Speaking to the decline of miracle healings in the 1st
century: it was not part of God's plan for His Church to
grow very large - that was not His purpose in that age - so
God apparently withdrew His tremendous power to perform
spectacular public healings.
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82 |
God
has set up physical life to be temporal. We all die.
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87 |
God
has healed; He does heal; He will continue to heal as
long as there is physical life extant. But the reasons
for doing so are always temporal.
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87 |
Healing is an example of God's mercy, a product of God's
wisdom.
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89 |
God
sometimes heals the new convert and the spiritually
immature, while he may withhold it from the mature
Christian.
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89 |
God
may heal to show mercy (Luke 17:13), to express love, to
encourage the spiritually weak, to reinforce faith, as a
witness of the gospel.
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91 |
The
object of God's purpose may not always be the sick
person himself:
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91 |
God
is intensely concerned with an individual's mind and
heart.
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92 |
In
the matter of healing, it may be one's attitude as much
as one's faith that may influence what God will do.
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92 |
Healing is not a part of God's spiritual-moral law, and
as such is neither commanded nor required by God.
Healing is a special benefit from God.
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98 |
Faith is total belief. However, there is also the will
and purpose of God and anything held in faithful belief
will not come about if it is contrary to God's will in
the specific situation.
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101 |
God
will not honor a request contrary to His will,
regardless the level of faith the person has.
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101 |
A
person can have "absolute faith" when he asks for
healing and still be denied it, because God in His
wisdom may think it is better for that person not to be
healed.
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102 |
Healing is an extension of God's mercy; it is not an
absolute promise according to one's faith.
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102 |
God
will not heal a person because that person thinks he has
faith if he in reality does not. (God may heal him in
spite of that fact.)
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111 |
Healing and faith are totally private matters between a
person and God.
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112 |
It
is possible that that the person not being healed is the
stronger Christian spiritually.
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115 |
God
has healed; God does heal, God shall heal. There are no
limitations on God's ability to heal any and all
sickness and bodily defects - supernaturally,
miraculously, completely.
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118 |
Faith says that God can heal; it is not a guarantee that
God shall heal in every individual situation.
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125 |