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Healing Doctrine -
Survey of the Doctrine Sub-subject index to doctrine arranged by subject. Printer-friendly Page 07 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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Godly Purpose |
Speaking to the decline of miracle healings in the 1st century: it was not part of God's plan for His Church to grow very large-that was not His purpose in that age-so God apparently withdrew His tremendous power to perform spectacular public healings. |
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God has set up physical life to be temporal. We all die. |
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God has healed; He does heal; He will continue to heal as long as there is physical life extant. But the reasons for doing so are always temporal. |
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Healing is an example of God's mercy, a product of God's wisdom. |
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God sometimes heals the new convert and the spiritually immature, while he may withhold it from the mature Christian. |
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God may heal to show mercy (Luke 17:13), to express love, to encourage the spiritually weak, to reinforce faith, as a witness of the gospel. |
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The object of God's purpose may not always be the sick person himself: |
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God is intensely concerned with an individual's mind and heart. |
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In the matter of healing, it may be one's attitude as much as one's faith that may influence what God will do. |
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Healing is not a part of God's spiritual-moral law, and as such is neither commanded nor required by God. Healing is a special benefit from God. |
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Faith is total belief. However, there is also the will and purpose of God and anything held in faithful belief will not come about if it is contrary to God's will in the specific situation. |
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God will not honor a request contrary to His will, regardless the level of faith the person has. |
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A person can have "absolute faith" when he asks for healing and still be denied it, because God in His wisdom may think it is better for that person not to be healed. |
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Healing is an extension of God's mercy; it is not an absolute promise according to one's faith. |
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God will not heal a person because that person thinks he has faith if he in reality does not. (God may heal him in spite of that fact.) |
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Healing and faith are totally private matters between a person and God. |
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It is possible that that the person not being healed is the stronger Christian spiritually. |
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God has healed; God does heal, God shall heal. There are no limitations on God's ability to heal any and all sickness and bodily defects-supernaturally, miraculously, completely. |
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Faith says that God can heal; it is not a guarantee that God shall heal in every individual situation. |
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God has healed in different degrees for different purposes. |