Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Wacky Wednesday--It’s A Sin To Be Sick


Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~Would there be illness if there was not sin? Then at the deepest level, we recognize that sin and sickness are tied together.
~Is medicine a gift from God? Why? Because we believe that God is a God who heals, right.
~The difference between a sick person and a healthy person is the degree of their faith in Christ.
~Righteousness is to believe on him whom the Father sent.
~By His stripes were you healed.
~Is it God’s Will that everyone who loves Him would be healed? Do you believe in God’s Will.
~Jesus came to set the captives free.
~Are you telling me that Jesus healed masses of strangers but wouldn’t heal His own beloved disciples?
~If you have faith like a grain of a mustard seed, you can move mountains. If you don’t even have that much, how can you even be saved?
~Faith comes by hearing the word of God, and we know it’s a sin to not study the Word faithfully.
~Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.
~Seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things shall be given unto you.
~You have not because you ask not.
~They that believe must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
~Jesus came to give life and abundantly more life. How is this compatible with being ill?
~If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
~When was Jesus sick? Aren’t we supposed to be like Him?
~The great commission tells us to lay hands on the sick and make them recover.
~If we’re sick, we should ask the elders to anoint us with oil. Why, except to get healed?
~The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
~Therefore I say unto you, what things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

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