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Healing Doctrine -
Survey of the Doctrine Sub-subject index to doctrine arranged by subject. Printer-friendly Page 04 Instructions: This page takes all the sub-subjects and key statements from the main Survey of the Doctrine page and lists them in doctrine order by subject. Click on the paragraph number to go back to the Survey of the Doctrine page to read the doctrine. |
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Effect of healings |
Built faith into those witnessing them. |
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Effect of Healings |
The healing miracles of Jesus stimulated His disciples' own human faith. |
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Faith |
Divine healing is according to faith, as well as other factors. |
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Faith |
Faith of the sinner and the mercy of God are intrinsic to the forgiveness of sin. |
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Faith |
Jesus often responded positively through people's faith in Him. |
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Faith |
Jesus healed according to an individual's faith. |
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Faith |
Faith is essential to the cleansing of sin at conversion and the transformation of our bodies at the resurrection. |
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Faith |
Regardless of the number and types of healings today, we can know for sure is the awesome spiritual meaning that Jesus' healings have for us today-the confidence that they generate, the faith that they give us. |
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Faith |
We can know for sure that the same Personality who healed the sick, cleansed the lepers and raised the dead has promised, and has the power to forgive our sins, cleanse our bodies and spirits, and eventually resurrect us from the dead. This, in reality, is the ultimate miracle, and this, indeed, is the ultimate faith. |
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Faith |
It is through our faith in the reality of Jesus' healings that we can be assured that, through this same power, God has promised to forgive us of our sins, cleanse our minds and, ultimately, to resurrect our bodies from the dead. |
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Faith |
Faith is not the sole criterion for determining whether a person shall be healed. |
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Faith |
The Bible shows that there are different "kinds" of faith, or at least different levels of faith. There is a faith which all Christians are required to have for salvation, but this is not necessarily the same kind of faith needed for healing. |
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Faith |
It is impossible to "work up" faith. Only God can supply this faith. |
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Faith |
Faith is the belief that God shall heal. |
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The lack of faith is not sin, nor is the lack of healing a sin. |
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Faith |
We all, in some manner, lack faith. This is no more an indictment than to say that we are all human. |
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Faith |
If seeking external help in any way indicates a "lack of faith," then such lack of faith is in no way a sin, because it is God's responsibility to give us this special faith, though we certainly have our part in it. |
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Faith |
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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Faith |
Healing is an extension of God's mercy; it is not an absolute promise according to one's faith. |