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Originally Posted by Esther
No. Look as an example at the four gospels. They all tell some of the same stories, yet some give more details than others. And although they may have all been at a reported incident not all reported on all the same incidents.
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And I have no problem with that. But that isn't what happened in this example. We have a direct quotation of Jesus. James may have noticed that it doesn't work as Jesus said it would. He may be among the first to "add to the word of God" to try to make it "true". Oddly enough, in the very next chapter, James also makes a pretty bold promise, which also doesn't work.
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
If the prayer doesn't work, well then, it was obviously not a prayer "of faith". Always plenty of blame to hand out. Even for the parents of a dead child, who claimed this and other healing scriptures, rather than take their child to a doctor. Tell them to their faces that they didn't have faith. Or tell them this isn't a promise that all sickness would be healed, even though it says
any sick among you. Or tell them God has healed their child in Heaven. That
always works. It also makes this "promise" utterly pointless.
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