The gospels tells how Jesus healed many people who were paralized, sick, blind etc and even gave the power to the 12 disciples to teach and heal the people. I wonder with the church having healing masses and the congration praying over sick people, why is nobody healed like in NT times? Then you also have tv avangelists lke benny hinn who on tv “supposedly” heals many people and your miracle water cure which i think those are scams for money.
…there are layers upon layers on this… first of all (which many get very very wrong) what you have described is one of the prophecies pertaining to the Messiah (‘heal the sick, give sight to the blind, make the lame walk, cast evil spirits, the death would rise…’); as it happens, right before his death (another instance, in my understanding, where many fail to see the fullness) John the Baptist sent two of his disciples to Jesus… to their query He replies with something like this: “the lame walk, the sick are heal, the blind see, and the Gospel/Good News is preached to the poor…”
…again, they are signs that would reveal the arrival of the Messiah…
Jesus was not lazy… but early on He delegated power to His disciples so that the people of Israel would experience without doubt that the Lord of Malachi’s prophecy had in deed arrived and, as the Immanuel, was among His people–just imagine 72 disciples, going about in twos, performing all sorts of miracles throughout the various villages and cities in Israel!
…then there was the inception of Christ’s Church… Jesus gave them the asurance that He would remain with them, as well as that He would send the Holy Spirit, and there were signs that would accompany the Disciples/Apostles to demonstrate their authenticity (we must take into consideration that they are representing themselves as the revelation of Yahweh God to Israel’s people–a people that has had experience through the various prophets that came with Word and Signs from God); Jesus Apostles (His Sent Ones) would carry no less of a mark than the ancient prophets!
Again, contrary to many people’s perception, Scriptures do not state that these signs would accompany the Church all of the time nor throughout time… at the beginning, these signs were manifestations to demonstrate that the Gospel/Good News that the Apostle preached was True and that they had complete Authorization from God (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit)… as the Chruch began to take shape, even during the Apostles’ life time, we note that these signs are less and less relevant to the preaching and Salvation than the actual Doctrine and Worship that begins to take place…
Signs still do happen… both as a source from good and evil–it is why Christ warned that we should not jump and run every time someone claims that Jesus is here, there or over there… it is why Jesus warned that the evil one, as a spirit, had the ability to pretend to be the angel of Light and that he would perform many signs (and even allow others to perform them in his name) that would deceive even the elect, if it were possible…
As we get more involved in the Scriptures we find that all of the signs are signs for the non-Believers or signs to demonstrate that the Church was founded in God; Scriptures demonstrate that discipleship (“if you Love Me Obey my Commandments”) is the actual measure that we, those who seek Christ, must both attain and teach others to attain–Salvation becomes a matter of Preaching and Living the Gospel and not of prowes and personal abilities.
Maran atha!
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Perhaps we are jaded in these modern times we live in, so it is hard for us to believe, but God does not change. Over many decades in the past century, some have found healing at Lourdes. We don’t know why all illnesses are not cured, but that does not mean there is no healing taking place in our times.
