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Originally Posted by Bro. Robbins
Unless the Word says it... you cannot make a doctrine out of it... that's simple exegesis and proper use of the Word. One cannot bring forth a teaching (doctrine) just because it sounds reasonable, logical or makes sense to them. But if you want to use reason and logic, I can go completely the opposite way as well and make a point. Do you not think that building faith is important to God? And don't you think He would include in His Word all the ways to build it and increase it and see it grow? And not just one, and make you guess the subtle inferences of the others? If God took time to tell us one way to grow it, He's tell us them all.
See how ludicrous it is to build a teaching off some kind of "doesn't it just make sense?" The Word is spiritual, not carnal... cannot be understood carnally or logically.
Lastly, the woman with the issue of blood would not be a good example, as she received the "word" from Jesus that she would be healed.... so faith did come by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God... in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and was with God..... He declared to her that she was healed... it wasn't some prophet or teacher doing it... therefore, that's not a good example to prove your concept.
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Actually the account of the woman who was healed is an excellent example. It's also a good example of why there are multiple Gospels to compare. In Luke's account, it's the woman who declares to Jesus that she was healed by touching His garment, not the other way around. She knew she was healed because she stopped bleeding. Mark confirms this by recording that she knew what was done in her before she spoke with Jesus.
Luke 8:46-47
46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she was healed immediately.
Mark 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
However, what is really exciting about this is Matthew's account (
Matthew 9:20-22), which by all indications lacks the detail of Mark and Luke's recording, but includes a very notable event based on the woman touching the hem of His garment:
Matthew 14:35-36
35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Jesus' fame spread, but it wasn't the pure, written Word; it was only tales and accounts. Based on these tales and account alone, the men of Gannesaret believed that Jesus could do for them (chapter 14) what He did for the woman back in chapter 9; by touching the hem of His garment, they were made perfectly whole.
I guess that would be a third way to increase faith - increasing faith based on someone's testimony - as we can see very clearly from the account of the woman with the issue of blood.
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