the danger of Reckhart's assumptions

[CAD/JPY]

Timmy,
Without a doubt the Bible teaches divine healing. Your example in reference to my winner's bias, well, I just don't see the application...

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by CAD/JPY

Timmy,
Without a doubt the Bible teaches divine healing. Your example in reference to my winner's bias, well, I just don't see the application...

OK, let me break it down for you. Some people believe in magic hair. And they point to healings etc. as evidence that this teaching is true. It doesn't always work, but they ignore or downplay or explain away the times it doesn't work, and show off the times it (ostensibly) did work, and call it proof.

Some people believe, as you do, and I agree, that the Bible teaches divine healing. Maybe not in James (though I think most see it the way I do), but in several other places. And they point to healings that they have seen or experienced as evidence that this teaching is true. It doesn't always work, but they ignore or downplay or explain away the times it doesn't work, and show off the times it (ostensibly) did work, and call it proof.

See the application?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by CAD/JPY

Let me point something out here, and if you read Reckhart's letter, you will see a clear example of it. It is the danger of only picking the winners!

To bring up examples of how women with uncut hair were used mightily of God, or were able to lay their uncut hair across a child and saw them healed... the problem is that the BIAS is towards winners.

How about all the other women who did the exact same thing, but their child wasn't healed? Or their required miracle didn't happen? What about them?

I am in no way making fun of anyone here, anything but that! However God chooses to intervene and why, I will leave that up to HIM. I can't photocopy somebody else's experience and try to imitate it as gospel.

Bro. Reckhart, If we were to take this same BIAS, and apply it as a principle. What about all the healings and miracles that take place under Trinitarian ministeries? How do you valid that? Or what about the Preacher who has sin in his life, say he is having an affair... but he prays for people in his church and they are healed? Is that a sign of God's approval of the individual?? Of course not! God in his infallible wisdom has simply chosen to intervene.... for whatever reason that may be.

It is a gross error to simply pick the winners and try to use those examples as doctrinal truth. We must stay firm on principles that can be equally applied in all situations!!

As I pointed out in another thread, this is putting faith in the Serpant Moses made and not in the God that told him to make it. God is not getting the glory...her hair is the glory. Faith in HIM gives Him the glory

[Sister Alvear]

I love Jesus with all my heart and I would never want to do anything that would hurt someone that gave His all for me.
I have a hard time understanding why we all (myself included) can sometimes say such hateful things about each other...but it happens...we are all guilty...Please forgive me for every time I may have been right but my spirit was wrong and forgive for the times I have been wrong...
Dear ones...we are all travellers...do you remember that little saying?



To live above with saints we love
O! That will be glory!

But to live below with saints we know.
Well, that's another story . .



guess that is the way it goes...