by Aware! 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
In pp. 12-15 there is an auto-biography about a former Pentecostal evangelist who said she had the power to heal. I've never understood this. Are healing powers real? Why do JWs have a lot of stories about people studying and then losing their "gifts"?
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Powers to heal came from Demunz!
Well, except when Jezus did it.
You know there are some pretty interesting studies being done on the power of the mind to cause or bring about self healing.
Here is just the first link I picked up on Google
http://healing.about.com/od/visualization/a/powerofmind.htm
"Through the wormhole" with Morgan Freeman has also discussed this subject, in one of the shows.
just something to consider??
Sorry guys I just don't know, I still believe in the supernatural because I can't explain things—a lot of things. If demons are real then there must be a God. At this point I'm not agnostic but deist. I'm young and have yet to finish reading the Bible, but it seems to be taking forever because I'm doing it slowly. I have to give it a chance and hear what it has to say. I don't expext to understand it after reading it one time. Thousands of years have passed and I don't think anyone understands it completely.
Well, they don't recommend "healing powers"....
"Soon thereafter, I used this power to heal a
child who was very sick with a high fever.
When I offered a prayer, the child immediately
began to perspire and the fever disappeared.
At last, I felt that I could fulfillmy
promise to God. Strangely, though, I felt a
void. Deep inside, I believed that there is
only one God, but I did not really know who
he is. And I had nagging doubts about many
of the doctrines of the church............................
..............................................................................
I mustered up the
courage to go home to burn all the things I
had used inmy former work as a pastor. After
doing so, I realized that any special powers
previously given to me were gone. In the
past, when I slept, I felt that something was
constantly pressing down on me. That feeling
was gone too. The shadows I used to see
at the window of my room never appeared
again. My study of the Bible had taught me
that any so-called gifts today, like the power
to heal, are not from God but from wicked
spirits. I am so happy that I broke free from
their influence, just as the servant girl did
whom Paul freed from “a demon of divination"
So they don't deny the power of these things but attribute it to the demons..They would avoid it like the plague !
Placebo effect...
Read up on it!!
Keep your chin up, go slow, remember its just a theocratic game ....so play it wisely until you finish education.
Powers to heal came from Demunz!
Well, except when Jezus did it.
Also from LOLCats.
Dang, wish I had a healing LOLZ cat.
Why choose the Bible?
What would you have chosen if your Mom wore a burkha?
"Why do JWs have a lot of stories about people studying and then losing their "gifts"? "
That's easy. Rather than show these are false/fake claims, it suits the WT better to infer they really happen. Then they use it as proof there really are demons and that their religion alone has God's protection from them.
