Recurring question

Oliver Rice  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jun 2014
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Recurring question

HEALING AND HEALERS
By
Jim Thompson
Evangelical Press. 267 pages. £8.99.
ISBN 978 0 852 349 335

Here Jim Thompson investigates not only modern day healings but modern day healers – those who claim to have the same gift as that possessed by Christ and his apostles.

The first question is this: What are the NT standards for healing? Thompson lists four. They were immediate, without natural means, complete and 100% successful. Additionally, ‘no condition was too hard to heal’. The conditions were truly organic (like a chopped-off ear), not merely ‘functional’ or psychological.

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