Posted on 01/23/2011 10:37:12 PM PST by Dscott_FR
You are right, nobody has the power to raise the dead, Jesus does though, any christian can perform miracles in his name. I don’t know about the authenticity of this story, but don’t doubt the power of Jesus.
Every Christian is a saint according the bible, the apostles were just as human as you and me, you obviously don’t know the bible as well as you say you do. This story nonwithstanding, in Jesus name, anything is possible, you need to have faith.
No one on earth, no, but God Almighty can do whatever He wants to do. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, blaspheme the Holy Spirit by saying miracles can’t be performed.
It says in Matthew 28:16 that Jesus was talking to the eleven disciples. And yes, I'm aware of other passages in the letters of Paul that talk about sharing your faith, so you don't have to quote them for me. But, in this passage, Jesus is speaking specifically to his eleven disciples.
Wrong. The same spirit poured out on the Apostles on Pentecost is the same spirit inside every believer today — God has not changed. Lack of faith is what the Apostles did not have.
“Who would want to leave Heaven to come back to Earth?”
They weren’t in Heaven.
I have personally seen healing from AIDS, Kidney Cancer, and food barely sufficient for 80 children feed 275 abundantly. You are sounding like the Pharisees that deny God in good works and hint of evil in miracles. Are there charlatans out there? You betcha. But God’s power remains unchanging.
“. They are focused on the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. A wise theologian once posed this statement and question to me: “Your focus must always be Christ-centered.”
Christ is in Heaven seated at the right hand of Father. The Holy Spirit is here on earth. Which one would it be, then, doing God’s work on earth?
Must’ve been some email that was read to them . . . I wonder if it was one of those “immediately send this to seven people you know” ones.
“They weren’t in Heaven.
Where were they?
According to them, “in a dark place”.
Mark ch 13 21“And then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or, ‘there he is,’ don’t pay any attention. 22For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform miraculous signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. 23Watch out! I have warned you!
So far no names just an internet account. I believe in miracles but I believe in reasonable caution and verification as well. Christ after healing told ones to show themselves to the Priest.
One fairly well known account I have heard of was a preacher who was killed in a car wreck and a fellow preacher who saw the aftermath of the wreck knew him & prayed over him for about 90 minutes after he was pronounced dead. He was pronounced dead, documented as such by professionals, and through a miracle from GOD came back. I believe he wrote a book called 90 minutes in heaven.
Perhaps. Keep an eye on this.
You’re welcome. Unfortunately (from my perspective and experience), your gospel does not include divine healing and/or raising from the dead (not resurrection, which all shall experience, some to salvation and others to damnation), while mine does.
On a practical note, the good news of salvation is more readily and broadly received in those places where it is accompanied by signs and wonders according to the biblical example and teaching.
Case in point being just one (there are many) Pentecostal fellowship which has grown from the mere hundreds that formed it less than a hundred years ago to over 60 million today.
But I understand you must operate according to the faith you have been given — or that which you have chosen to embrace.
I’m just asking rhetorically. Though I admit to recalling Todd Bentley from a few years ago who made claims about raising the dead. Here is a ministry group that actually has a mortuary ministry where they attempt to raise the dead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPTjKr0KriM
The HOLY Spirit is NOT dead. Do you think that it is only by human agency such miracles happen?
Or is that what you are saying, hmmm? Are you implying that The HOLY SPIRIT is DEAD?
Where is that in the NT?
Yes, I do speak Portuguese, I am Brazilian. And I am denouncing the FORGERY THAT WAS SET UP IN THIS.
Does raising from the dead ever happen many years after a person’s death? It seems like most of these accounts involve people dead for only a short time.
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