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Healing is also connected with the forgiveness of sins. [2] Pentecostal and charismatic Christians believe "that God has made provision that physical healing would be a ministry of His church and that gifts of healings would operate along with faith". [2] However, they also believe that no minister of healing will heal all that come to them. [3]
This gift does not, however, make one a miracle worker, since it is God who performs the miracle. The emphasis should be known that it is a spiritual gift from God, primarily for the ministry and spiritual good of others, rather than the recipient. God always signifies or teaches something with miraculous manifestations. [4]
The Kingdom and the Power: Are Healing and the Spiritual Gifts Used By Jesus and the Early Church Meant for the Church Today? Ventura, CA: Gospel Light, 1993 (thorough and practical). ISBN 978-0-8307-1659-3. Hurst, Randy (editor). Divine Order: Leading the Public Use of Spiritual Gifts. Gospel Publishing House, 2009. Lim, David.
Cessationists believe that spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues, prophecy and healing ceased with the Apostolic Age, leading to a cessationism versus continuationism debate. The broader debate specifically over the signs and wonders movement and the present-day function of the manifestation gifts would continue into the 1990s. [17] [18 ...
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El Greco's depiction of Pentecost, with tongues of fire and a dove representing the Holy Spirit's descent (c. 1600). Cessationism versus continuationism involves a Christian theological dispute as to whether spiritual gifts remain available to the church, or whether their operation ceased with the apostolic age of the church (or soon thereafter).
Besides thoughts, discernment of spirits can be applied to the judgment of such phenomena as dreams, visions, miracles, prophecies, and other supernatural gifts. In an ideal case, the main tool of discernment could be the person's conscience; however, in the Orthodox view, that relates only to the people of holy life.
gifts of healing others and the ability to be healed, [note 14] gifts of working miracles, [note 15] gifts of tongues, [note 16] ability to cast out devils and demons (exorcism), [note 17] divine investiture of authority and priesthood, [note 18] remission of sins and purification, [note 19] ability to receive general help (wishes), [note 20]