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Q: You write of 1 Pe. 2:24 “…by whose stripes ye were healed” to mean physical healing, whereas I have always understood it as symbolic of Christ healing our wounded souls. After all, it’s a quote from Isaiah 53 which speaks allegorically of the lost as sheep gone astray. Am I missing something?
A: Lovely question! There will be joy in your heart when you discover the answer.
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Q: Is there a difference between believing on, and believing IN Him?
A: The phrase; believing ON, is primarily used in reference to sinners repenting of unbelief and believing on The LORD Jesus Christ.
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The Holy Spirit relates this incident three times in the Gospels because it teaches us so much about salvation. Please read it in Mtt. 19:16-30, Mk. 10:17-27, and Lk. 18:18-30 asking the LORD to open your eyes.
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Q: What’s the difference between faith and repentance?
A: That’s a very perceptive question!
In practical, and scriptural, terms there’s little difference, because bible faith is an action, not mere mental assent, and repentance without a corresponding change in action constitutes hypocrisy.
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There’s a depth of prayer far beyond normal intercession, where the believer travails in the spirit of prayer, with deep compassion, and ultimately brings forth that which Father has placed on your heart.
It may take minutes or hours of such travail, perhaps as in Abram’s case, even decades of believing prayer.
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There is a way to keep smiling in victory through whatever crisis you have to deal with.
How to please God; find happiness, be fulfilled, healthy, and at peace at all times.
Some people are satisfied with existence, coping with each day that comes.
Based upon Receive Miracle Healing by T.L. Osborn
© 89 OMI Used with the Author’s permission
If you have accepted Christ as your personal Saviour, you have become a child of God, and He is your Father. You are not a beggar.
Your new Father wants you to come to Him with confidence as a child comes to its loving parents.
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Q: I belong to a church that believes that if you have been baptised and you have not changed, then you must be baptised again. The Bishop himself was baptised seven times because he did not change after the first six times.
As a result of their belief, I was baptised twice. The first time was before I joined this church, but because I heard the message of keep baptising until you’ve changed, I got baptised again with them.
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Q: I’ve read your pages on Christian Baptism where you insist on dunking the person. My church prefers sprinkling or pouring water on people. Are you saying that is not proper baptism?
A: Sprinkling, pouring, dabbing, and splashing are not biblical baptism in water.
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Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Holy Bible Mtt. 28:19 KJV
In the Bible, believers were baptised in water as soon as they believed the Gospel.
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Q: There’s a girl who says she went to heaven, met Jesus, and has painted his picture that many rave over. What do you make of this?
A: I know of the story, and have seen the image you refer to.
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Q: The news media are saying that scientists have created synthetic life for the first time. Is it true?
A: You refer to the work published in the May 2010 Science journal by the J. Craig Venter Institute entitled, Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesised Genome, Gibson et al.
I have carefully studied the original scientific paper in full.
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Q: What’s the Christian view of gene therapy of disease, and the use of stem-cells to treat genetic disorders?
A: This topic arises when people depart from the LORD’s will for us, either through rejection of the Gospel of Christ, or a shallow understanding of redemption by faith in Him.
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Q: In the bible book of Jonah there’s no mention of a whale, only a fish, yet in Matthew, Jesus calls it a whale, so which is right?
Collage of various types of fish via Wikimedia Commons. These images belong to their respective owners.
A: Well spotted, this finding prompts unbelievers to claim it’s a contradiction, because whales are now classified as Mammals, in a unique zoological order (Cetaceans), separate from the creatures we call fish.
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Q: What are we to make of the Tree of Life in the Bible, it sounds more symbolic than real, especially when mentioned at the end of the Bible, and does it have any similarity to the Tree of Life we are taught in Biology class at school?
A: The Tree of Life first mentioned in Genesis 2:9 KJV., is both real and symbolic.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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Q: Is smoking cigarettes a sin that will send me to Hell?
A: No, you’re on your way to Hell for rejecting Christ as LORD and Saviour. Jn. 3:18.
Smoking is sinful, but when you are saved, He will set you free from all sins and compulsions, including smoking. Jn. 8:36, Col. 1:13.
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Q: What’s the worst sin of all?
A: Thank you for your question.
Ask sober sinners, and they generally list such sins as; murder, paedophilia, homosexuality, incest, rape, adultery, fornication, and stealing.
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Q: Should Christians be taking a daily Aspirin to prevent cancer, heart attacks, and strokes?
A: I assume you ask because of the recent news about the anti-cancer properties of a daily dose of 75 mg. of Aspirin (Salicylic acid).
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This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Holy Bible 1 Jn. 1:5-7 KJV
The Word of God became Flesh and Blood and taught His followers how to live in the Secret Place of the Almighty, in harmony with Him, cleansed of every sin.
