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Key
Statement/Teaching |
Paragraph |
Some people's requests for anointing border on
superstition. To anoint for every sniffle or mild ache
makes a mockery of divine healing and Christ's
suffering.
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112 |
It
is both offensive and inaccurate to say that one who is
not supernaturally healed (or who seeks medical aid) is
a "Weak" Christian.
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115 |
To
ask God to supernaturally do for us what we can
naturally do for ourselves may begin to undermine the
vital representational analogy between healing and the
forgiveness of sin, conversion and the resurrection from
the dead (since no human being can ever do any part of
the latter).
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121 |
It
is possible to have no faith in God and an almost
superstitious faith in man's scientific knowledge.
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123 |
It
would be wrong to seek obscure second-class treatment
when competent first-class health care is readily
available.
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125 |
Far
worse than any personal spiritual slips or lapses in
faith is the commonplace gossip of judging fellow
members of the congregation.
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140 |