Posted by John L. Rothra on October 31, 2007 under Site Updates | 
The site crashed recently, likely due to someone hacking into it. The problem was the blog crashed and took the site with it. We are back online for now, but the site will go through some upgrades in the near future. Visitors should not notice an immediate difference on the site. However, in the next few months, to help ensure a more secure and user-friendly site, John Rothra Ministries’ site will undergo an complete makeover.
Posted by John L. Rothra on October 15, 2007 under Devotional/Teaching |
Last year the issue of physical healing arose as the hot topic of the week at seminary, partly in response to the “Word of Faith” movement. Professors, administrators, students, and others debated the issue of healing and what it means. Varying opinions existed, but the consensus was that God does not heal every physical ailment. That opinion was widely accepted until someone, or some group, decided to redefine the term ‘healed.’ The specific proponents are not as important as the view promoted. The view promoted was that death was a form of physical healing.
For me, hearing this was not a surprise. To summarize, proponents of the ‘to die is to be healed’ view argued that Scripture can be interpreted as meaning that healing is spiritual and, therefore, occurs at death. Furthermore, those who die are free from all disease and physical ailment. My initial response remains the same: the arguments are based on speculation or absurd logic. To say that Greek or Hebrew words “may/could/might mean” this or that is not convincing and is speculative. To argue that because dead people do not suffer from disease, therefore death is a form of healing is, to be candid, absurd. Of the arguments I heard promoting the ‘to die is to be healed’ view, the latter (‘dead people aren’t sick’) was the most prominent. Therefore, I shall respond to that.
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Posted by John L. Rothra on October 10, 2007 under Site Updates |
This has been a very busy month for me. As a result, I haven’t posted here in a while. In the meantime, I encourage you to spend time reading Scripture and good books to help you understand God’s word. In the coming weeks and months, I’ll be uploading more studies of Psalms, the continuation of the eschatology intro, and much more. God bless you as you seek him.
