One does not have to watch a video to know a grift. Faith healing was preformed for one reason during the time the infant church was establishing doctrine, and that purpose was to confirm new revelation from God....what new revelation does this supposed faith healer present and if there is a new communication presented to mankind through proxy of the Holy Spirit of Truth why is this new revelation not recorded as are the other scriptures derived through divine inspiration?
The scriptures are vividly clear, the gift of supernatural healing along with the other gifts were only temporary and were going to end. Yet some people want to pretend they have some kind of supernatural power when its a most simple thing to compare these supposed miracles with the miracles preformed in the New Testament, I have yet to see the blind from birth to see, or the dead to live, what we do see is a suggestion that these miracles somehow depend upon the faith of the one being healed when there is example after example of Jesus healing people not because of the people that were there believed but because UNBELIEVERS were in their midst and He used this instance to glorify God even in the presence of the unbelievers (Mark 3:1-5), Jesus never blamed a sick person for a lack of faith, he simply healed them. In fact it was the faith of the healer not the healee that was important (Matthew 17:14-21).
True, some of the people had faith already, but some did not have any faith but were begging asking for money (Acts 3:1-6).
The Scriptures are clear. These miraculous power that were evident in the 1st century were given through Holy Spirit Baptism and by the Apostles laying on of hands to pass these gifts on to certain other people in order to help establish the infant church. (Acts 2:14) Has Jesus promised anyone today they would be endowed with power from on high, the way Jesus promised the Apostles (Acts 1:8)? (Acts 8:14-18).
But now, today there is but ONE BAPTISM, and that is water baptism (Eph. 4:5), which men can preform (Matt. 29:19). Those who claim to have these supernatural gifts today never claim all of them, there is a list of 9 such gifts of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:1-10), but they just claim some...the ones that are untestable....why? If one gift exists today....all of them do, if not, why not...where are the dead and the evidence of them arising from the grave? Where are blinded from birth that now see? If there are such prophets still on earth, each revelation they utter should be added to scripture...for that was the purpose of the miraculous, SIGNS and WONDERS to confirm the word of God. Examples ( 2 Cor. 12:12), but that revelation has already been confirmed ( Heb. 2:3,4). There is no purpose for SIGNS and WONDERS today.
The scriptures tell us that these Signs and Wonders would cease when that "which is perfect (made whole, complete in the original Greek) comes". -- 1 Cor. 13:10. That which was perfect has come....THE PERFECT (the same Greek word used in Cor.) LAW OF LIBERTY as it was made complete with the New Testament revelations of God (James 1:25).
The miracles performed in the 1st century were carried out by godly men who never begged for so much as a dime for any miracle. Indeed what a contrast to the Fake Healers and TV Evangelists of today, who openly declare "God loves you....but, SEND YOUR MONEY TO MY ADDRESS."
Jesus nor His Apostles had to debate anyone over their ability to work miracles, for even their enemies could testify to what they had witnessed (Acts 4:16). They were more than willing to be placed to the test. Jesus commended the church at Ephesus for testing those who claimed to be be apostles but were lying (Rev. 2:2).
I am of the same opinion, "WHOSO BOASTETH HIMSELF A FALSE GIFT IS LIKE CLOUDS AND WIND WITHOUT RAIN." -- Prov. 25:14
