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Healing Doctrine -
Survey of the Doctrine Sub-subject index to doctrine arranged by subject. Printer-friendly Page 02 Instructions: This page takes all the sub-subjects and key statements from the main Survey of the Doctrine page and lists them in doctrine order by subject. Click on the paragraph number to go back to the Survey of the Doctrine page to read the doctrine. |
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Jeremiah 30:13, 51:8 and Ezekiel 30-21: The metaphors involved here allude to medicines but are nowhere condemned. |
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Ezekiel 47:12: Shows positive use of medicines. |
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Revelation 22:2: Healing preparations shall still be used after new heaven and new earth. |
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3 John 2: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." This verse shows God's overall desire for mankind. |
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The Bible gives basic principles of health which, counted with common sense, experience and modern knowledge, would prevent many of the health problems plaguing modern man. |
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Healing is not part of His spiritual, moral law, as it were; and not being healed, therefore, is not a sin. |
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Anointing for the sick - James 5:14: The oil is a symbol of God's Holy Spirit (cf. Ex. 30:23-25; Matthew 25:lff; etc.); the act of one having hands laid upon him shows the person's desire to be set apart by God through His Spirit for the special miracle of the divine healing of his body. |
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James 5:14: If sin is involved in sickness, the sin shall be forgiven and the person healed. |
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John 9: Jesus confirms that physical debilities are not necessarily caused by sin. |
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Luke 13:1-5: Not all sickness is the result of sin |
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The Bible nowhere speaks of "physical sin." |
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Luke 5:24: Jesus has the authority on earth to forgive sins. |
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Luke 5:20: The power to forgive sin is proved by the healing. |
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Luke 5:20: The healing is differentiated from the forgiveness of sin. They were two separate acts, with the former being used to prove Jesus' power over the latter. |
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John 11:25: Jesus is the resurrection and the life. |
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1 Peter 2:24: Healing can take various forms including spiritual, mental, physical and even environmental. |
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1 Cor 11:27-30: Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. |
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1 Cor. 11:30: Physical ills do result from spiritual problems. |