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figmentPez -> RE: Word of Faith / Prosperity - One Stop Thread (12/23/2010 3:37:15 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LifeLoveSong
We come from two different view points. I am basing my argument on Jesus and you are basing yours on Paul. Now I greatly admire Paul, but it's called Christianity for a reason. And do remember that Jesus walked and ministered as a man. Paul was good but Romans and Corinthians details his shortcomings. Being stoned and beaten is not sickness. Jesus was never sick while on earth. He never missed a meal. He never spent a sleepless night in the cold.
Yes we will suffer for the sake of the Gospel, but Gods provision will always be there. The same Jesus that always healed people has not changed.
My logic doesn't line up with yours because it is based on Jesus not Paul. Paul would agree with me, don't you think?.
No, Paul would not agree with you. Paul would agree with me, because he was the one who boasted of his weakness for the sake of CHRIST. This was not shortcoming on his part. He was obedient, he had faith. In fact read Hebrews 11, so many had faith but "did not receive what was promised, because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect."
Being stoned, being hungry, going sleepless, being poor, all are because of this fallen world, as is sickness. There is no difference between God's promises for health and God's promises for protection from our enemies. There is no difference between God's promises of food and God's promises of healing. You are trying to put up a division where scripture makes none.
Your sick and twisted WOF teachings mocks the faith of Paul, and Abel, and Noah, and Abraham, and Sarah, and Isaac, and Moses and so many others named and unnamed. They had faith while awaiting God's promises, so that others would come to the LORD. God had them do without, so that you would know His greatness. Yet now WOF teachers act like whiny little children screaming "now, now, now" unable to see past their wants for the greater good. Unable to see God's work in the lives of others, only concerned about what they can get now, and not what someone else can have if they have the faith to wait.
You also lie about Jesus Christ. He did go without meals, and he did spend nights out in the cold.
Matthew 12:1
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.
The edges of the fields were left for the poor to eat from. Jesus and his disciples were poor. They weren't snacking, they were eating from the fields because they didn't have any other food.
Luke 9:58
And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."
If you say that Jesus Christ always spent the night in a house, then you deny that He completed prophecy. Jesus spent his time wandering, without a home, spending nights in the cold. Probably long sleepless nights at points.
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