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   From: novalidemail@ymail.com   
      
   On 7/30/2023 3:01 PM, James wrote:   
   >   Religious healing tents: From God?   
   >   
   > Absolutely we should go to them if they are God backed. How can we   
   > know?   
   >   
   > There are a few things to consider. Scammers are all over the place.   
   > So we must be cautious.   
   >   
   > Miraculous powers.   
   >   
   > " Additionally, to fortify their testimony, the apostles continued to   
   > exercise the miraculous powers previously granted them by Jesus, and   
   > also other gifts of the spirit received from Pentecost forward. (Ac   
   > 5:12; 9:36-40; ) While others, too, received such miraculous gifts of   
   > the spirit, the account shows that such was the case only when one or   
   > more of the apostles were present, or by the laying on of the hands of   
   > the apostles. Paul, though not one of the 12, also served in this way   
   > as an apostle personally appointed by Jesus Christ. (Ac 2:1, 4, 14;   
   > 8:14-18; 10:44; 19:6) Thus the power to transmit such gifts was unique   
   > with these apostles. Such miraculous gifts would therefore pass away   
   > with the passing away of these apostles and of those who had received   
   > these gifts through the apostles (1Co 13:2, 8-11), and thus we read   
   > that these powers were "missing in the 2nd-century church, the writers   
   > of those days speaking of them as a thing in the past-in the apostolic   
   > age, in fact."   
   > (The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, edited by J. D. Douglas, 1980, Vol.   
   > 1, p. 79.)   
   >   
   > Sincerely James   
   > Diseases. What   
   > should be done.   
   > 7/30/23   
   > Go to jw.org   
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      Yes, I suspected as much, but do some still receive them?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)