In the bible, the writings of acts and the latter are filled with accounts of miracles and healings. Do you believe that God does this still today? If not why don't you believe this and is there any bible verses to back you up.
2006-12-13 09:10:52 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Farien 3, you would need verses to back up having no miracles for today because it says God is the same yesterday today and forever. Sorry my occasional mis spelling offends you.
2006-12-13 09:18:41 · update #1
Yes I do, I Have witnessed hundreds of healings through out 25 years and many miracles within my own family, church and friends.
Oh yes one more thing, I belive it is always God's will for someone to be healed.
http://www.awmi.net
Dare I add, I have a friend whos son was raised from the dead.
PTL!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-13 09:17:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.christian-faith.com/miracles.html
Should it surprise a true believer in God that God is working miracles today? According to the Bible, "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). If Jesus was ever a miracle worker, He is today. Did He ever tell you He had stopped doing miracles? To deny miracles is to mock prayer today, since even the slightest true answer to prayer involves a measure of divine intervention. God can do whatever He wants at any time. He has not gone on an extended vacation. While there is order in the Universe, there is also plenty of scope for the direct involvement of God's Spirit.
Jesus is the truth, the way and the life!
"Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One"
(Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad)
2006-12-13 17:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in the same quantity as they were back in the days of Jesus. Jesus performed all of those miracles and such to prove that He was God. God was changing the whole way He dealt with humanity, and therefore to let humanity know that He was comin' down to the earth, miracles and healings followed Him.
Of course miracles and healings are -possible-, but not exactly necessary. I believe that God still does this today, in fact my friend who got in a skateboarding accident a few months ago, the doctors said that he wouldn't live. He was still kickin' after a week and the doctors we're blown away at his persistence.
2006-12-13 17:15:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They can and do happen, but they are not observed to happen as frequently as in certain periods of Bible history.
I noticed that at the beginning of the presentation of Moses' law there were a lot of supernatural phenomena. Then again when the prophets began their ministry there were lots of miracles. And when Jesus began his ministry, and when the apostles began. Toward the end of the Book of Acts, these phenomena don't disappear but become much less frequent.
God is not in the business of providing miracles and healings on command. He has a purpose for them. But He is always able.
2006-12-13 17:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, these things are still relevant today. One reason these things don't happen more often is that there is not expectation. We don't Expect anything. Jesus said "you shall do these things and greater" He also said "these things shall follow them that believe" Do we believe? If so, in what? Do we expect Our Father to be there for us? If not, then our faith that we say we have is not faith. Jesus often said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it will be opened" Now knowing that God can not lie, then the problem must not be resting on Gods' part, but with us. If the bible says that without Faith it is impossible to please God, and also That You must first believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that deligently seek Him. There is another thing we have to figure out. Am I diligently seeking Him, or am I a hit and miss kind of person? In numbers it says, That God is not a man that He should Lie, Neither the son of man that He should repent, Has he said it, he'll bring it to pass...
The problem lies with us as the reason these things don't happen more often. We put our focus on the wrong things, we are preached all to often with the emphasis on the wrong thing.
2006-12-13 17:31:11 · answer #5 · answered by Fugitive Peices 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some religions encourage the sick to pray to be healed now, pointing to the miraculous cures that Jesus and his apostles performed. But such miracles were done for a special purpose. They served to prove that Jesus Christ was the true Messiah and to show that God's favor had been transferred from the Jewish nation to the young Christian congregation. Back then, miraculous gifts were needed to strengthen the faith of the newly established Christian congregation. When the infant congregation got on its feet, as it were, and became mature, the miraculous gifts were "done away with."—1 Corinthians 13:8, 11.
At this crucial time, Jehovah God is directing his worshipers in the more important work of spiritual healing. While they yet have time, people desperately need to respond to this appeal: "Search for Jehovah, you people, while he may be found. Call to him while he proves to be near. Let the wicked man leave his way, and the harmful man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, who will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will forgive in a large way."—Isaiah 55:6, 7.
This spiritual healing of repentant sinners is being accomplished through the preaching of the good news of God's Kingdom. (Matthew 24:14) By empowering his servants to carry out this lifesaving work, Jehovah God is helping millions of people from all nations to repent of their sins and come into a favorable relationship with him before the end of this wicked system. All who sincerely pray for such spiritual healing and all who pray for help to perform this healing work are indeed having their prayers answered.
2006-12-13 17:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by pachequito 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No miracles and healings are not for today. We live in the age of faith during this period in history (Dispensation). Faith is believing without seeing. Christ expressly said "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for signa, and NO SIGNS WILL BE GIVEN except the sign of Jonah" . The sign of Jonah was the ressurection of Christ after three days in the grave. Signs and mracles were given at the beginning of this age by those who had personally known Christ to verify the messages since the New Testament of the Bible had not yet been written. Hebrews 2:3 "...at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will."
I think if anyone wanted to verify that it was still around it would be easy to do, just do it. But it just isn't happening.
2006-12-13 17:23:10 · answer #7 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe that it is possible today. Jesus did tell His desciples that they could perform miracles in His name. He also said with the faith of a mustard seed we can move mountains. However I have also heard that He was also only talking about His disciples, the apostles, not those of us after. He also said "this generation" would ask for a sign and none would be given them. But it is possible. "I can do all this through Christ who strengthens me." I don't remember the address right now.
2006-12-13 17:22:21 · answer #8 · answered by jakethekarr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes indeed. HE heals and does many miracles each and every day.
but
NOT THE HOLLYWOOD TRASH that we see people like Benny or Henry Hinn doing on TV to make big Dollars.
2006-12-13 17:15:25 · answer #9 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe that miracles and healings occur everyday through the power of God. However, I do think that a lot of televangelists "cure" people for profit, which is a no-no.
2006-12-13 17:13:58 · answer #10 · answered by kenrayf 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋