Re: Who 'does' miracles & healings?

ixthuscom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I may seem very humble to say that the healer is Jesus or that 'I do
the praying and God does the healing' but is that what scripture says?

Mar 16:17 And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my
name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new
languages;
Mar 16:18 They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their
drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who
are ill, and they will get well.

Also Mat 10:8 Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make
lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to
you, freely give.

No suggestion here of praying that God would heal or raise them, rather
a command to go and do because authority has been given. Of course the
power to do comes from God but then so does everything. The crop that
the farmer 'grows' is properly the work of God through the DNA in the
seed and the children we 'make' also happen because of the way God has
made us.

I may even be a lack of faith to say 'its not me doing the healing but
God'. What do you think?

Chris

Mark 16:17-18 (which is more sweeping than passages like Matthew 10:8;
which are specific commands to specific people in a specific situation,
not
general predictions) is part of Mark 16:9-20 which is probably not part
of the
original text of Mark.

Andrew Criddle
.

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