Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Certain Charismatic ministers and their followers are teaching that God literally “cannot” heal unless we believe fully that He's going to do it, or even that He already has healed us. They say that to consider whether or not God wants to heal us is to ensure that the healing will not happen. I here lay out a selection of Scriptural evidence that this is a false teaching, and therefore that the proponents of this idea are either false teachers or should not be trusted to teach.
Why Israel? Why should a tiny nation with so much hostility towards it be the center of Biblical attention? The answer is that God chose the nation to provide the human half of the genealogical line to the Messiah. He chose the land as His own and put the two together.
The danger of leaning on grace and liberty is in thinking that how I live doesn't matter.
Perhaps the most complex and even unfathomable part of the universe is the human mind. It's my observation that the human mind-and I include my own in this indictment-is susceptible to delusion and illness in multiple forms. Our thinking can become warped or may have always been warped depending on our background and our influences.
Feelings are not faith, and as Paul declared, "Everything that does not come from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). That's not to say that all feelings are sinful, but depending on them is. Feelings can be sensual, physical, temporal and fallible. They can be useful and wonderful tools and a great blessing, but they can also regularly get us into trouble. The antidote to this uncertainty is the Word of God.
