“For the sin-sick depraved hopeless original-sin-tainted human, The Father’s Gracious Unmerited Salvation does it all, to heal the believer and reborn child for ever from death.”
Quite true, Imardmd1. You get no argument from me on that point, but that was not the intent of my post and I think you surely misunderstood it. Nonetheless, I can appreciate your view and I appreciate the time it took to prepare your response.
The problem referred to is the word of faith movement in which God will give you what you want: cars, healing, money, etc. I don’t find that to be the truth anymore than I find it that God will heal every sickness and disease brought before Him in prayer by His own children. I pray for many every day for healing, but it’s His decision whether or not to do so.
I stand by my point, Imardmd1, that this position is harmful to newcomers to Christianity in that when God doesn’t help them in a matter, they struggle with faith because they’ve been told God WILL do this and WILL do that or that they already “own” it and just need to claim it. Blab it and grab it, in other words.
It’s damaging to the Body of Christ and is an insult to faithful Christians who struggle with health problems on a daily basis. Their faith is no less than that of the person God chose for His own purposes to heal. I would go further to state that, in fact, their faith may be stronger for not being healed and continuing in their faith with illness day-to-day.
I have enjoyed many of Frank Broom’s posts on FR, but that doesn’t mean that I must agree with every point of view. If another believer has a different point to be made and it is not a salvific issue, there should no insult be taken.
Again, Imardmd1, thank you for your response.
And no doubt they've prayed MORE than three times for the thorn in the flesh to be removed.
I found Frank’s post to be beneficial to be honest.
We don’t have to agree 100% on everything. He wrapped it up very nicely with Romans 10:9-10.