Naaman and Thankful Leper - I support Naaman not the thankful Leper

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atassina said:
So here is what I see:

Naaman gives Elisha some grief. Naaman finally get some humility and obeys Elisha’s command. He returns to give thanks and praise to the one true God. 2 Kgs 5:14-17

Jesus tells ten lepers to show themselves to the priest. Immediately they hightail it to the priest in obedience to the command of Jesus. Then some wise guy leper gets all thankful and returns to Jesus to give thanks for his healing.

Naaman is obedient to the prophet of God.
The cleansed leper is disobedient and returns to God (Jesus) to give thanks.

Naaman get grief from the prophet of God and is still thankful and changes his heart to offer true sacrifice to the one true God.
The cleansed leper is disobedient to the command of God and gets praise from God.

Naaman does what he is told by the prophet of God. He is obedient. And does not get praised but chastened.
The nine other cleansed lepers act in obedience and continue on to the priest to show themselves.
Then you have this one lone wolf who returns because he get all thankful and forgets to act in obedience. And so what happens? He is made out to be the good guy. What?!!
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I find these reading a bit confusing and disturbing. How am I supposed to be obedient when the one out of the nine+one are made out to be the louses.**Hi!
…I think you are confusing two distinct examples:
  • Naaman is commanded to do quite a simple thing to regain his health; at first he rejects what is requested of him; consequently, he acquiesces and is healed–in his joy he turns to the prophet and desires to paid tribute; the prophet not being able to profit from God’s Gift refuses to take a wooden nickel; Naaman requests that he be allowed to take soil back to his own nation so that he can Worship Yahweh God and he asks that he be forgiven for any outwardly sing that he may be compelled to exhibit to those who are non-gods; both requests are acknowledged and granted.
  • Ten lepers are healed; they are commanded to show themselves to the priest (as proof that they are healed and can be allowed to return to their respective communities; one leper, at noticing that he is healed, begins to praise, loudly, God and he returns to Jesus (the source of healing) and drops at his feet.
…so your problem is that you are a legalist?

Check Jesus’ comments when He and His Disciples noted some people making Temple offering:
43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
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atassina said:
true to faith,
that’s my point. in my original post, why were the obedient ones not praised and the disobedient one praised?
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You call the one who came back to Jesus…“disobedient”…Jesus praised him because he wasn’t disobedient, he gave thanks to God, Himself, the King of Kings!!
 
Deleted. The explanation above cleared up my confusion. Great Greek!
 
Mintaka said:
The point is that, even after they went to see the priests, the other nine did not come back to thank Jesus. Of course they probably were busy rejoicing or getting back to their families, and generally enjoying being part of the civilized world again. But they did not thank Jesus, all the same.
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…nor is there a mentioned that they too praised God as soon as they discovered that they were healed!

Maran atha!

Angel
 
The Samaritan, upon being healed, did exactly as Jesus told him to do. He went to the highest priest of them all.
I think( i was told this by a source that ought to know) that the Samaritans imitated the Jewish religion and they too were awaiting the the Messiah.
 
fbl9 said:
The Samaritan, upon being healed, did exactly as Jesus told him to do. He went to the highest priest of them all.
I think( i was told this by a source that ought to know) that the Samaritans imitated the Jewish religion and they too were awaiting the the Messiah.
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…correct–St. John 4, the Samaritan woman meets Jesus on the well!

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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