Died of cancer in 2002. This was a few months after a preacher gave me a word from the Lord that he would be healed.
I'm simply stunned at the direction this thread has taken and find myself wondering this: that preacher told you your brother would be healed. I think, at first, we have a tendency to believe the literal aspect of healing, that he would have gotten to live much longer. But, your brother's healing came in the form of passing from this earth and entering into a Heavenly healing, which involved leaving you and the friends and family he had known before. Did what the preacher tell you set a bad taste of believing anyone when they tell you someone is going to be healed in the physical sense?
Uh huh. And where does your faith come from? Not your own effort, of course. It comes from God. The author and finisher.
God gave everyone faith. We just have to decide to use it or not.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Died of cancer in 2002. This was a few months after a preacher gave me a word from the Lord that he would be healed.
Sad to hear. Extremely sad.
But, aside from that, do we put faith in preachers who say things that God may or may not have said, or in God?
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
But, aside from that, do we put faith in preachers who say things that God may or may not have said, or in God?
What has God said? You have to have faith in men, to think you can answer that question: the ones (certain ones, that is) who wrote the Bible, and the (certain) ones who decided which books belong in the Bible.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
What has God said? You have to have faith in men, to think you can answer that question: the ones (certain ones, that is) who wrote the Bible, and the (certain) ones who decided which books belong in the Bible.
There is more to it than that. If there is a God, and we both agree there is, and He inspired men to write His will for what He wanted men to know, then we have to realize He had His hand on whatever He inspired to be written. It's more than just asking who determined what should be canon. God is a factor in this. And what is most logical?: -- 1) That God inspired men to write, and then abandoned his concern for us to read those words from that point onward, and left it to chance to determine what books we would have today to read, or (2) that He had His hand on the issue and motivated men to make popular what he wanted us to readily have available at our hands?
__________________ ...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
There is more to it than that. If there is a God, and we both agree there is, and He inspired men to write His will for what He wanted men to know, then we have to realize He had His hand on whatever He inspired to be written. It's more than just asking who determined what should be canon. God is a factor in this. And what is most logical?: -- 1) That God inspired men to write, and then abandoned his concern for us to read those words from that point onward, and left it to chance to determine what books we would have today to read, or (2) that He had His hand on the issue and motivated men to make popular what he wanted us to readily have available at our hands?
Of those two options (there are others!), the second one is more reasonable, sure. But, if God had his hand on the process, one must wonder why he failed to produce, through the process, one universally accepted canon.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
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