please help with this religion question?

Question

my sacrament is anointing of the sick....the question is how do you see the sacrament connected to Jesus and his mission? how does it help continue his mission today?

Answer 1

It's not a sacrament. It's just something you like doing that you think you're good at. You can ascribe that to anything you wish, and you probably do. However, that doesn't really mean it is related to any religious superstition.

BTW, you don't really know anything about Jesus' mission or if he really even had one. All the stuff written about Jesus was written decades after he died, if he existed at all. You don't have any contemporary information about him.

Answer 2

James 5:15
14 Sickness is another circumstance where prayer is needed, and concerning such prayer James gives detailed instructions. The sick person "should call for the elders of the church" (cf. Tit 1:5, 7; Ac 20:17, 28). In Ac 20:28 the elders are instructed to shepherd the church of God, i.e., to do the work of a pastor (cf. also 1Pe 5:1-4). Thus, the sick person is to call the pastors of the church "to pray over him and anoint him with oil." Prayer is the more significant of the two ministries performed by the elders, for the overall emphasis of the paragraph belongs on prayer. There are a number of reasons for understanding the application of oil as medicinal rather than sacramental. The word "anoint" (GK G230) is not the usual word for sacramental or ritualistic anointing. Furthermore, it is a well-documented fact that oil was one of the most common medicines of biblical times (see Isa 1:6; Lk 10:34). Josephus reports that during his last illness Herod the Great was given a bath in oil in hopes of effecting a cure. It is evident, then, that James is prescribing prayer and medicine.

15 The assurance is given that prayer "will make the sick person well." In the final analysis, this is what effects the healing. In answer to "the prayer offered in faith," God uses the medicine to cure the malady. The statement "the Lord will raise him up" means that the sick man will be enabled to get up from his sick bed. If it was sin that occasioned his sickness, "he will be forgiven." This suggests the possibility that, because of persistence in sin, God sent sickness as a disciplinary agent (cf. 1Co 11:30). The conditional "if he has sinned," however, makes it clear that not all sickness is the result of sin.

16 From the promise of v. 15 James draws an inference. Since confession of sin and the prayer of faith bring healing, Christians should confess their "sins to each other and pray for each other." It is not merely the elders who are told to pray here, but Christians in general. If a person has sinned against a fellow-Christian, he or she should confess the sin to that person. This will no doubt result in mutual confession--"to each other." Then the two believers should "pray for each other." If the sin has caused sickness, healing will follow confession and prayer. James proceeds to add the assurance that prayer "is powerful and effective." The "righteous man" here referred to is the one whose sins have been confessed and forgiven. His prayer is fully able to secure results, such as healing of the sick.

Answer 3

Nix...I am guessing you go to a Catholic school and are working on a homework assignment. Not everyone knows the sacraments of the Catholic church and as Fireball said, different churches practice them differently. Most Protestant churches only have holy communion and baptism as sacraments, so not everyone will understand.

Regardless, unless one of our Catholic people come on, I would not consider this a reliable source of information about how sacraments connect to Jesus.

The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 4

The Church is the body of Christ on earth that has been empowered by the Holy Spirit to continue the ministry of Jesus Christ in his physical absence.As when Jesus was here on the earth he prayed for the sick the church his body continues the same practice today.

Answer 5

The definition of a sacrament is a religious rite that grants/strengthens saving Grace. Two of such are Baptism and Communion.

If you are speaking about a gift of ministering to sick, or even a very rare gift of healing, then that is different than a sacrament.

How is it connected? God gives us all gifts. If we use them to our fullest ability, then we are honoring God. If we ignore them or abuse them, then we are sinning because we are not using them as God would have us.

Answer 6

Sacramentum is to "make sacred". I'm not sure what the difference is between this and sacrifice, which is made up of sacre and facere - to make.

Sorry, but I think the whole thing is just awful. You're supposed to heal the sick. Jesus had spikenard ointment put on him, but that wasn't because he was sick. It was because he was the cure.

The hierachy (rule by priests), if they get too carried away with themselves, are just people with OCD-like interests in tapping on furniture (which is how they tend to view people as well) a certain number of times before making another decision. It reminds me of a joke where the priest does something superficial for the parishioner and then asks for a donation into the collection box. Paddy (it's an Irish joke) complains, thinks and then rubs his money on the box, before pocketing it again. People with OCDs also have an obsessive interest in the relationship of body fluids (because they are morally ambiguous?) to health, both their own and others. In practice, people tend to shift around a bit between OCD-like tendencies and passive-aggressivism, where they hypotise over seeming obstacles such as sharing of guilt.

Sorry, but it makes me so mad that somebody would see it as an outward sign of inward purity to dab some oil on a sick person as if God just ordained their health to be like that.

Psalm 109:18 says:
He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

Answer 7

Instituted by Christ: found in all the many cures enacted by Christ in the Gospels. Laying on of hands, or some other touch was common in healing/miracle stories. The apostolic recommendation is most clearly found in the Letter of James [James 5: 13-15.]

Cheers :-)

Answer 8

i see it connected to Jesus and His mission because Jesus healed sick people. i dont understand the question....

Answer 9

Your sacrament? are you Catholic? any minister can do that and in most churches its just prayer & not a sacrament..

Answer 10

Are you a medical doctor?