Paul's handkerchiefs healed people

tonychanyt · Jul 12, 2024

Ac 19:

11 God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

Paul did not directly contact these sick people but indirectly through his handkerchiefs or aprons. God worked miracles through Paul using different methods at different times. The handkerchief method was not a normative practice for Christian healing—then or now. There is no formula to effect miracles.

See also Did Peter's shadow heal the sick people?

HTacianas · Jul 12, 2024

tonychanyt said:
Ac 19:

Paul did not directly contact these sick people but indirectly through his handkerchiefs or aprons. God worked miracles through Paul using different methods at different times. The handkerchief method was not a normative practice for Christian healing then or now. There is no formula to effect miracles.

See also Did Peter's shadow heal the sick people?

That's the origin of Christian sacred relics.

Offline4Better. · Jul 12, 2024

tonychanyt said:
Ac 19:

Paul did not directly contact these sick people but indirectly through his handkerchiefs or aprons. God worked miracles through Paul using different methods at different times. The handkerchief method was not a normative practice for Christian healing—then or now. There is no formula to effect miracles.

See also Did Peter's shadow heal the sick people?

I guess working miracles to heal medical issues was not any tissue for Paul's handkerchief.

Carl Emerson · Jul 18, 2024

Your heading is incorrect.

The handkerchiefs didn't heal anyone - Jesus did.

tonychanyt · Jul 18, 2024

Carl Emerson said:
The handkerchiefs didn't heal anyone - Jesus did.

Right. That goes without saying.

Carl Emerson · Jul 18, 2024

We see that when the woman touched the hem of His garment.

So the power of Jesus in Paul likewise was released through material.

Sabertooth · Jul 18, 2024

There is also a precedent with 2 Kings 13:20-21,
"Then Elisha died, and they buried him.
And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the spring of the year.
So it was, as they were burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raiders;

and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha;

and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet." NKJV

Carl Emerson · Jul 18, 2024

In view of this - what are your thoughts about visiting the graves of celebrity saints to benefit from their anointing ?

Sabertooth · Jul 18, 2024

I believe that was a one-off. We do not see it practiced deliberately afterwards in the OT and neither Jesus nor His disciples promoted it in the NT.
Besides, that man was resurrected when he made physical contact with Elisha's "bones," not just being at his grave. We would have to leave those bodies exposed to try to duplicate that.
Putting an additional body in a shared grave is not so much a problem.

Ace777 · Aug 1, 2024

Carl Emerson said:
The handkerchiefs didn't heal anyone - Jesus did.

It's a point of contact.

Sabertooth · Aug 6, 2024

Sabertooth said:
Besides, that man was resurrected when he made physical contact with Elisha's "bones," not just being at his grave. We would have to leave those bodies exposed to try to duplicate that.

Maybe a wire running from the body to a exterior contact plate...?

Carl Emerson · Aug 6, 2024

Yep... the muslims have a pilgrimage to the Black Stone and all believers must touch the Copper Plate... :hug:

Carl Emerson · Sep 12, 2024

Carl Emerson said:
Yep... the muslims have a pilgrimage to the Black Stone and all believers must touch the Copper Plate...

Best I clarify that we were musing about this in case we are thought to be promoting the latest weird sect...

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