YES!! Whatever obstacle in my way is a mountain.
The point of Jesus’ remarks was that men don’t have that important ingredient in their hearts...faith.
If that's the way you interpret it, perhaps God is showing 'you' something?
Jesus didn’t say the reason they couldn’t cast the demon out was because they didn’t have any faith. They did have faith. That’s why they were confused and asked this question. They had cast demons out before (Luke 9:1-6) and expected positive results this time, but they didn’t get them.
It is possible to have faith but not see that faith produce the desired result because UNBELIEF negates or counteracts faith.
God NEVER says anything that cannot be done. "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me". If one doesn't believe it, the problem rests with them and NOT God's Word - EVER.
Faith grows as we use it - much like a muscle.
No, sir, you have not moved a mountain. You may think you have solved problems, or resolved conflicts, or dealt with some other difficult matters and doing so constitutes "moving mountains", but you have never moved a mountain. When you have done so, get back to us.
"God NEVER says anything that cannot be done. "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me". If one doesn't believe it, the problem rests with them and NOT God's Word - EVER."
And, if you think that Paul meant "all things" as in lift the Empire State building, then you have demonstrated a complete disregard for the context of these writings. You are dangerous.
Your fanciful hermeneutic allows for the Bible to be teaching most anything. It does not. However, those for whom its message is hidden will claim all sort of kooky understandings. Your work is in that category. I suggest you take a long course in good biblical interpretation. However, God may not permit you to see any clearer than you do now.
Sorry, pnsn, I am sick and tired of being told that I’m not healed because I don’t have enough faith.
That is a very destructive theology to the faith of a person struggling with some physical issue who hasn’t seen the manifestation of their healing.
It’s very condemning and judgmental. No one can say why another person has not been healed, as healing is God’s responsibility, but to claim that anyone knows why that healing hasn’t occurred, especially with something like an accusation of lack of faith, is reprehensible.
Jesus never failed to heal, nor did HE ever tell someone that they weren’t healed because of their lack of faith.
Faith grows as we use it - much like a muscle.
Baloney. That is not a Scriptural teaching as all.
Jesus told us that all we needed was faith the size of a mustard seed to move mountains.
Both are unscriptural teachings. If we have faith, we don't have unbelief. That's just stupid to claim that we can have both.
It's not the faith that heals us anyway, it's God. That's what makes the faith effective. It's not the size of our faith, it's the size of the God we have the faith in, which is why mustard seed sized faith can work, because we have a creator and sustainer of the universe sized God.
The whole emphasis on in the name it and claim it theology is in the wrong thing. Name it and claim it types put their faith in their faith. The rest of us put our faith in God.