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Old 08-28-2012, 05:15 PM
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Can a person receive a miracle or healing without possessing faith in God? Please give scriptural "proof" of your answer.
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Old 08-28-2012, 05:48 PM
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Can a person receive a miracle or healing without possessing faith in God? Please give scriptural "proof" of your answer.
The son of the nobleman in John 4:46-53 was healed because of the father's faith. The daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman was delivered because of her mother's faith (Matthew 15:21-28). Lazarus was raised from the dead without his confessing or exercising faith.
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Old 08-28-2012, 08:06 PM
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In 1980, the US Olympic Hockey team beat Russia. But I don't know the percentage of believers on the team, so maybe it was over half. Is that a quorum?
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Old 08-28-2012, 09:21 PM
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Can a person receive a miracle or healing without possessing faith in God? Please give scriptural "proof" of your answer.
Why might one be looking for a miracle? Know that miracles are for lost people, and a believer should not be looking for miracles. For a similar reason, do not expect a prayer for healing if you are manifesting death unawares.
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Old 08-29-2012, 09:27 AM
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Why might one be looking for a miracle? Know that miracles are for lost people, and a believer should not be looking for miracles. For a similar reason, do not expect a prayer for healing if you are manifesting death unawares.
Yeah. Manifesting death unawares is dumb.
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:09 AM
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Can a person receive a miracle or healing without possessing faith in God? Please give scriptural "proof" of your answer.
Could you unpack that a little brother? Do you mean without possessing any faith whatsoever in God in general? Or without possessing faith in God for that specific need?
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Old 08-29-2012, 11:25 AM
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Re: Without Faith?

When Jesus told Peter to throw the nets out again, it's fairly apparent in scripture that Peter did not have faith that they would catch anything.........but, they caught so much that the ship nearly sank. Does that apply?

Also, the Bible says that "If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful".....

And, yet in another place it says "Without faith, it is impossible to please God".

This is a great question, because there seems to be contradicting scripture....
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Can a person receive a miracle or healing without possessing faith in God? Please give scriptural "proof" of your answer.
Absolutely. The requirement of faith is on the one who prays for the healing, not the one receiving the healing.

Acts 28:1-9 Gives the account of Paul being shipwrecked on the island of Melita. Publius' father was sick, Paul laid his hands on him, and he was healed. After that, many on the island, which included barbarians, brought their sick to be healed.

Likewise, Matthew 8:5-13 records the account of the Roman centurion asking Jesus to heal his servant. His servant received his miraculous healing.
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Pharoah got a miracle,
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