Miracles Essays

Miracles Essays Miracles Essay Miracles Essay Essay Topic: The Healers a.1) Christians believe that a miracle is an event that apparently transcends human power and the laws of nature. That is attributed to a special divine intervention or to supernatural forces. However there is room for argument. some choose to believe that a babies first smile is a miracle, this of course dose not transcend human powers or the laws of nature, also some people think that all miracles are legends. Or stories but this does not come into the Christian faith.a.2) Jesus was presented as a miracle worker in many ways; he performed healing miracles (LK 18:35-43) Jesus healed a blind beggar, Jesus said to the beggar your faith has healed you this quote is teaching of devotion to God, the beggar devoted his life to God and truly believed that he would be healed, another example of Christians being healed by there faith is (LK5:17-26) Jesus healed a paralytic, some men lowered the paralytic man from the roof in front of Jesus, Jesus saw their faith and s aid friends, your sins are forgiven. Then he told the paralytic to get and walk and the paralytic did so. This teaching shows that Jesus had the authority to forgive sins and had the power to perform remarkable things.Jesus also performed Exorcisms such as, (LK4:31-39) Jesus removed a demand (illness) from a man, with the power of God, Jesus had great influence over the demand and cast it away, this is evidence to support the quote is Jesus the son of God, teaching us that Jesus has authority and we should live our lives as he commands, furthermore Jesus performs another exorcism in (LK8:26-39) Jesus removed many demons from a man who called himself Legion because there were so many demons in him, the demands begged for Jesus not to order them to go to the abyss, so Jesus let them go into some pigs, when this happened the pigs ran into a lake and drowned. This phenomenal event showed that Jesus really does love every one even demons, for he took pity on them because they did not wan t to go to the immeasurable depths of hell. How ever the pigs died anyway but theres nothing to prove that Jesus intended for this to happen this also again shows Jesus power and authority over the demons.Jesus performed natural miracles like the one in (LK5:1-11) it is said that man can not rule over mother nature but Jesus did, with his assume ability to perform miracles, where there had been no fish all night Jesus said let down your nets for a catch and Simon did so to find so many fish that his nets began to break. This teaches us just how much power Jesus held within his human body give a man a fish and you can let him live for a day, give a man a thousand fish and his whole village can live for another day. Another natural miracle Jesus performed is in (LK9:10-17) with only 5 loves of bread and 2 fish Jesus fed 5000 men, taking the five loves and two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. This is truly an amazing thing to be done and teaches us that we should be thankful for the food that God has blesses us with and we should give thanks as Jesus did when we eat.Lastly Jesus performed raisings, such as (LK7:11-17) Jesus raised a widows son, when he saw the widow his heart went out to her and he touched the coffin and the young man was returned to his mother. This heart touching occurrence teaches us to love and have feeling for those that we dont know (the Good Samaritan), as Jesus did for all those who he healed.All of these extraordinary stories are based on Jesus love for others he is presented as a worker of miracles thorough love and affection for others and unquiet ability to forgive every. He even forgave those who hammered him to the cross he is a symbol of admirable and distinguished love and authority.b.) For Christians today the healing miracles are phenomenal events that we cannot explain scientifically, (all though some people choose to believe a miracle is just a story or legend). To a Christian a miracle that involv es healing means that God is still at work today helping those who have faith and bring the light of the holy spirit to those who have been deprived of Gods love in their lives.The miracles Jesus performed in (LK4:38-40) where he healed many of their sicknesses, shows that his love was so strong he was willing to put his own life in danger to help others, he may have caught a life threatening illness from someone healed. These kind of events still happen today with people like mother Teresa, she was a Christian who took care of ill people and risked her own life in the process. With her strong Christian faith and infinite love for those around her, she would unquestionably help an ill person to their feet and take care of them.Although physical and mental healing takes place today, It is not always in the same way as in Jesus day. Today people are most likely to be physically healed by medicine and mentally healed by councillors and psychologists. Although there are stories of peopl e whose faith has healed them today, Jesus said many times your faith has healed you, this phrase goes for what happened to a girl called Amanda Manifold.Amanda was born into a spirit filled family, in 1968 when she was 8 years old she her self received the Holy Spirit with the bible evidence of speaking in tongue and was baptised by full immersion. That same year she became very ill, and was diagnosed as having a rare and sinister form of leukaemia (Acute Myeloid Leukaemia) the treatment for this was experimental and the doctors gave Amanda a 20% chance of survival to her 10th birthday. She under went many courses of chemotherapy and finally went into remission. Unfortunately, ten months later she had a relapse and was gravely ill. No one in that hospital with A.M.L had ever serviced a relapse, however the doctors tried their best to save Amandas life. They attempted an autologous bone marrow transplant, which was unsuccessful. Chemotherapy was not an option as her immune system wa s far too weak. There were many complications and Amanda spent over two months in intensive care, fighting for her life. On the 17th of January 1989, the specialists said they could not give her any more treatment and sadly told Amadas parents that she would not see another summer. We have done all we can, they told them, we cant perform miracles.Amanda and her parents knew God could perform miracles. They trusted fully in gods healing promises and never doubted that Amandas health would be restored. Three weeks later she returned to school, strong healthy and full of the joy of the lord. Since 1989 she has had no further treatment. This amazing turn-around had confounded the specialists and they call her the miracle girl. Amanda praises God for her life and His unfailing promises. This story shows that today like in Jesus day your faith can heal you and others.However some scientists believe in mind over matter, and have and have done experiments with hypnoses, a hypnotised man was told hot metal was touching his skin when really it was cold, his skin blistered anyway showing that his body reacted violently to what his mind believed. Therefore if someone really believed they were ill then their body might react to this and vice versa, if they believed they would be healed then they would become healthy again.With the help of science we know today that illnesses are not caused by demands but by diseases and viruses etc. although some may question why good faithful Christians who have devoted their lives to God should become ill, is this maybe the work of the devil? Health has very little to with being ill (dr.Drew of Weston), this statement to me means that to be mentally ill is the same as being physically ill, if you had a fever you would stay in bed feeling unhappy and unsociable and if your illness was really bad you might lose hope and die, this can be closely associated with what might happens if you are mentally ill, you would stay in bed not wanting to talk and become very unhappy causing you to lose hope of life and lead you to suicide. To a Christian death is not seen as the end but as a new beginning with God in heaven, this is not a good reason to kill you self though, Christians believe that God gave you life and he chooses when to take it away.c.) Do healing miracles happen today? this statement can be seen in two different lights, in one light (the dark one) it is seen that healing miracles do not happen today, only a very limited amount of so-called healers will admit that they do not have any powers the apostles had. They do not dare attempt even the healing miracles that the apostles did. Jesus said heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Theses present day supposed healers will attempt only certain cases and will reject anyone who has anything seriously wrong with them.But in the other light (the bright one) there is a man called David Hathaway, who is a healer who has tremendous powers to heal, on the 13th march 1999 he healed a man called Peter who was blinded by a fishing rod. David loves to see young people like this healed, when doctors can do nothing. However, seeing Peters lack in faith, David made him sit down and watch with his one good eye others being healed, David wanted Peters faith to be lifted by what he saw. When Peters turn came David took authority of Jesus name and immediately Peter began to see colour, it became clearer and clearer until God gad completed a miracle.