Thanks for answering all my other questions. I was healed miracleously in January by Jesus. My JW friend said that they believe that healing is of satan. Also, Jesus told his disciples that they had the authority to heal and cast out demons. What do you say? God Bless You all that answer and have a great day!
2007-10-07 07:51:59 · 14 answers · asked by godlovesjacob 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that I heard this also. Do they beleive it was just for the apostles?
2007-10-07 08:01:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
1 Corinthians 11:12 to 15 warns about the devil and his followers.
Many people who are healed in the name of Jesus often find the results temporary at best. Your cure could be from other reasons such as treatments you have had starting to work or some times just believing you can beat an illness gives your body strenght to over come a problem.
If religion can really cure people then I am sure there would be no need for doctors and every one would be christian to be sure of a cure.
1 Corinthians 13:8 to 11 says that the gifts would end .
2007-10-09 08:13:43 · answer #2 · answered by pestie58 the spider hunter 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I believe you were healed by a doctor or by your body, not by Jesus or Satan.
2007-10-07 14:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
No, Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe or teach that healings are from Satan. Jehovah God created humans with amazing regenerative abilities, and so to Him belong the ultimate credit for the body's ability to recover (and credit to Him also for the mind's ability allowing medical professionals to derive treatments).
(Psalm 139:13-14) For you yourself [Jehovah God] produced my kidneys; You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother. I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful
(Psalm 100:3) Know that Jehovah is God. It is he that has made us, and not we ourselves.
The bible does speak of miraculous healings, which always had a specific purpose. In the first century (during the lifetimes of Jesus' apostles), these miracles helped to prove God's blessing upon the work of those performing the miracles.
The apostle Paul explained that the written Scriptures were an important source of credibility for true worship. But Paul also explained that the miracles of Jesus and the apostles proved God's involvement in this new form of worship, which was especially loving since some things contradicted the replaced Mosaic Law.
(Hebrews 2:2-4) The word spoken through angels [or "the Mosaic Law"] proved to be firm... [Christian salvation] began to be spoken through our Lord and was verified for us by those who heard him [especially the apostles], while God joined in bearing witness with signs as well as portents and various powerful works and with distributions of holy spirit according to his will
Paul referred to the miracles as "gifts" given to the early congregation, and connected them with the "partial knowledge" of the incomplete Christian Scriptures (the so-called "New Testament"). Still future was the time when the Christian Scriptures would take primacy over the existing Hebrew Scriptures (the so-called "Old Testament"), once their writing was completed. At that yet-future point (Paul wrote) the miracles would cease except for gifts of the holy spirit which Christians continue to enjoy.
(1 Corinthians 13:8-13) But whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is [miraculous] knowledge, it will be done away with. For we have partial knowledge [which relies on miracles for credibility] and we prophesy partially; but when that which is complete arrives [that is, the complete bible], that which is partial will be done away with. ...At present I know partially, but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known. Now, however, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
(Galatians 5:22-23) The fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/19950301/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020501/article_02.htm
2007-10-08 13:13:31 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't believe in faith healings, or that Jesus is currently healing those on Earth today.
2007-10-07 16:10:01 · answer #5 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard or seen Jesus or his Father healing anyone in this era.
2007-10-08 01:20:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
healed miraculously ,this is called the placebo effect
people can heal there self's just by believing something is healing them
doctors get the same effect with sugar pills
2007-10-07 15:01:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
A genuine healing is not of Satan.
2007-10-07 14:58:47 · answer #8 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Be careful JW is a cult! I would be very cautious in listening to what any JW says even if the person is your friend. You are very right in your question though, Jesus did tell his disciples that they had the authority to heal and cast out demons. And I am glad to hear that you received a healing from Jesus, and no healing does not come from satan. I would ask God to direct you in helping your friend see the real truth about Jesus.
2007-10-07 15:38:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 10⤋
Praise Jah you people!
edit: Ditto ~~achtung_heiss
2007-10-09 01:53:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋