|
Healing Doctrine -
Survey of the Doctrine Sub-subject index to doctrine arranged by subject. Printer-friendly Page 12 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. |
|
Member responsibility |
Member should have a regular program of routine physical examinations by a qualified doctor is also important in recognizing and solving any potential problems before they become serious. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
Individuals must care for their bodies physically, just as they must care for their minds mentally and spiritually. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
God expects us to take care of our bodies. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
God expects us to make good use of available knowledge about the human body, its functions and processes. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
The ill individual should look to man for whatever physical help he can receive but should also look to God to do what man cannot do-supernaturally intervene and divinely remove the illness, sickness or disease. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
The sick person should call for the elders of the Church who will lay hands upon his head, pray over him and anoint him with oil. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
It is not wise to become sidetracked by undue concern over whether certain detrimental physical practices under consideration are, or are not, sin. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
If the physical practice under consideration is indeed detrimental-as determined by biblical revelation or scientific fact-It should be stopped, as even common sense would dictate. |
|
|
Member Responsibility |
Understanding the significance of all these healings is essential to salvation since they are a direct verification that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ. |
|
|
Member Responsibility |
Examine yourself before taking the bread and wine. You are examining yourself to answer one question: "Am I in the faith"...the Salvation Process? Be definition, if one is in the process, he or she is rightly discerning the body and blood of Christ as it relates to healing and salvation. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
A Christian must discern the body of the Lord which was wounded so that we could be healed. We must also identify with the sufferings and sacrifice of Jesus Christ which are vital elements in the healing Process. |
|
|
Member Responsibility |
Anyone who seeks to be healed to show others his righteousness or favor with God, or who desires vindication of his position, or who craves recognition of his spirituality will be sadly and sorrowful, disappointed. |
|
|
Member Responsibility |
God is looking for he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at His word (Isaiah 66:2). |
|
|
Member responsibility |
The relationship between healing and faith is complex, necessitating an understanding of the whole Bible and current, practical experience. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
An actual healing or the lack of such a healing must never be viewed as a straightforward indication of an individual's righteousness, spirituality or favor with God. |
|
|
Member responsibility |
It is our responsibility to yield to God and His Spirit so that we may grow in this God-given faith. We should beseech God to do what the apostles asked of Jesus in Luke 17:5, "Increase our faith." |
|
|
Member responsibility |
We must understand there are factors in our own lives that can sometimes work against our faith and that sometimes it may not be there. |