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Originally Posted by TheLegalist
simple question .... doesn't prayer bring about miracles? What about prophecy etc... Is that not a miraculous work of God in your life? THough the text is clearly linked to authority in it's context and not "dunamis" in the sense of miracles. The text though is linked to authority and standing before God for his power to move upon petition and through revelation by prophecy. Quite a bit different than they teach but it does still have a reality in those areas.
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It seems to me some want to read more into the text than what is actually there.
I totally believe in the power of prayer and have many testimonies in my own life of how God answered prayer.
To link the miraculous to uncut hair is reading something into scripture that does not exist- and that is what me and Pressing are talking about.
But to get the desired result, (being that our hair possess certain miraculous power when we pray), we change the word 'power' in 1Cor11:10
to mean dunamis.
Dunamis:
strength power, ability
inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth
power for performing miracles
moral power and excellence of soul
the power and influence which belong to riches and wealth
power and resources arising from numbers
power consisting in or resting upon armies, forces, hosts
But the word is NOT Dunamis it is Exousia translated to authority-
Exousia means:
power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
leave or permission
physical and mental power
the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises
the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)
the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)
universally
authority over mankind
specifically
the power of judicial decisions
of authority to manage domestic affairs
metonymically
a thing subject to authority or rule 4c
jurisdiction
one who possesses authority 4c
a ruler, a human magistrate 4c
the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates
a sign of the husband's authority over his wife
the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself
the sign of regal authority, a crown
a sign of the husband's authority over his wife matches the text in which the word exousia is used.
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