Why didn't God heal any one that was sick in the OT, yet in the NT heal dozens as Jesus?

Question

Infact if I remember correcting from reading that novel, God gave permission to kill, and even killed thousands of people.


2nd Question
(since I have no more questions today)

If God told you to kill all non-believers would you?

Example...


And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

Matthew 4:23-24 And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people. 24 And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them.

Answer 1

God did heal in the old testament. First of all he promised the Isrealites that if they kept his covenant he would take sickness from the midst of them. Second, many Prophets were also healers. Consider the story of Naaman the Syrian. The king which he served was told that there was a Prophet in Isreal who could heal him. he went to see him and was healed. This also means that the prophet healed many others in order for his reputation as a healer to have reached the King of Syria.

Answer 2

1. Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)): "He is Allâh (SWT), (the) One. The Self-Sufficient Master, (Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks) He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him. (Quran Chapter 112)
2. He is the Merciful and the Compassionate, the Guardian and the True Guide, the Just and the Supreme Lord, the Creator and the Watchful, the First and the Last, the Knowing and the Wise, the Hearing, and the Aware, the Witness and the Glorious, the Able and ' the Powerful. (Holy Quran).
3. He is the Loving and the Provider, the Generous and the Benevolent, the Rich and the Independent, the Forgiving and the Clement, the Patient and the Appreciative, the Unique and the Protector, the Judge and the Peace. (Holy Quran example). The question of Allah's (SWT) 'God' existence has preoccupied men's minds for many centuries. Those who believe in Allah (SWT) 'God' seem to agree that the limited finite human intelligence cannot prove the existence of the infinite boundless of Allah (SWT) 'God'. It can only illustrate or demonstrate his existence to the satisfaction of the curious human mind.
Those who deny Allah's (SWT) 'God' claim to rely on science, philosophy, or special theories of knowledge. Their arguments are sometimes inapplicable, sometimes irrelevant, always complex, and often incomprehensible. However, the developed mind will find its way to Allah (SWT) 'God'. Failure to find the way does not mean that there is no way. Denial of reality does not make it unreal.

Answer 3

In 2nd Kings Chapter 5, there was a commander named Naaman who had a skin disease.
14 So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the command of the man of God. Then his skin was restored [and became] like the skin of a small boy, and he was clean.

15 Then Naaman and his whole company went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, "I know there's no God in the whole world except in Israel. Therefore, please accept a gift from your servant."
( 2 Kings 5:14-15)

Ussually , I have no propblen answering Hypotheticals, but how could I kill ALL non-believers? Moses, Joshua, and other leaders of the Isrealites had different responsibilties. They had to protect their people whom they had delivered from slavery. They had many enemies.
The non-believers of those days were not harmless. They were doing wicked things which the Lord despised and that is why He called for their deaths.

Jesus gave a new command to love our enemies because He was ushering in the age of grace. It would be a different age than that of Isreal under the law. That is why it was news to the jews of Jesus' day , that He was offering salvation to gentiles too. There is a lot I can say about the dispensations and how they changed from the Old Tesament to the New. I won't ramble on about it except to say that many have written about dispensationalism.

Answer 4

You Wrong.
Elisha rewarded the fine hospitality of a certain Shunammite woman by causing her to have a son, and his seventh miracle was the raising of that son from the dead. (2 Ki. 4..

No I would Question that " Request to Kill someone" Given that The Bible says that " Vengeance is his.. (Rom 12: 17-)
Plus Murderers will not inherit God's Kingdom (Rev 22:15)

Answer 5

Go back and reread the novel. There were plenty of healings in the Hebrew Bible. All of them were cited by the New Testament writers (or Jesus himself) as foreshadowing aspects of Christ's ministry: Moses lifting the serpent, Elisha healing Naaman, etc.

As far as the killings, they're there too. No doubt about it.

Peace to you.

Answer 6

at the old testament no need for healing because God used a prophet to deliver his message.in new testament he used jesus christ to heal people to prove that he was the messiah the one sent by God..if he didnt used the power to heal how can people know if his the messiah..

Answer 7

The Bible reveals two separate sides of God. The OT is His righteous and just side and the NT is His merciful and graceful side. Neither testament is complete without the other.

Answer 8

Different writers different fables. why doesn't he raise my dead brother from the grave .? He was most regretably christian .And why do politicians give out false promises every election year. Jesus your exemplar was a carpentar so do you think I should saw through it .

Answer 9

Jesus came to change things. Jesus said to love you not kill you.

Answer 10

Wow!, were you there to witness it all.

And just who are all the non-believers?
Atheists must be the non-believers?