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From: vm0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Paul Mulhern)
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Subject: Re: Two kinds of faith
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Date: 14 Dec 90 08:46:38 GMT
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   >    3.  When did Jesus ever allow or condone sickness?
>>
> 
>With regard to question 3, see John 9:1- :
(blind man, and later, Lazarus being raised...)  "The glory of God may
be manifest."

     Both of these incidences were followed by the guy being healed. 
How can we say that these events demonstrate that Jesus approved of the
sickness?  As soon as He found out about the sickness, He cured it.  The
glory was in the HEALING, not the sickness.  But people today say "Well,
it must be God's will that I'm sick...I guess it will be to His glory"
and other such nonsense, never expecting to be healed, but rather as a
form of resignation.
     The fact that Jesus successfully opposed the sickness as soon as He
found out about it kind of shoots down the notion that He was in favor
of it.  He didn't condone it...He said that it should be opposed and
that God receives glory from the HEALING of the sick.  
    Jesus is Lord...
    -Vince Mulhern