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Originally Posted by anapko
Sounds too Catholic to me! The early church didn't need "points of contacts" for faith...they just demonstrated it!
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Well, I think you are wrong. Just my opinion. The church certainly did use anointing oil,
James 5:14-15 says to for the elders of the church and let them "anoint" with oil. The point that you question is the oil being a "point of contact." I think so. What other purpose does the anointing with oil serve? Surely, you do not think that there are healing qualities in the oil itself?
Second, what about the prayer clothes that were taken from the body of Paul (actually handkerchiefs and aprons) and given to the sick and demon possessed. Did the clothes somehow retain an anointing from being on the body of Paul, or were they a "point of contact"? I think possibly both, they had a lingering healing anointing from being in contact with the apostle and they were a "point of contact."