Your post is a little confusing wonder if you could seperate what you think from scripture then tell me what you disagree with.
I dont use oil never have.
First things first I am niot sure what you dont agree with. Please be a little more specific when not agreeing.
Healing is for today and wheither you know it or not is fine. Not sure if thats what you dont agree with.
If you are saying its only for the elders. I dont know if you know what an elder is?
An elder today in the churches is just an office job,
The Elder we are looking at here is a person who is able and walking in the gift of healing thats is for all.
Just trying to stay in line with the way scripture tells us to do healing,
James 5:14-16 King James Version (KJV)
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
So here it says for the elders to do the healings! Not some young christian, whom she or he thinks they know what they are doing, as happens today- therefore edifying the individual instead of edifying the church. But also it also so the church can also keep an eye on what is going on too. Because many false prophets are going out these days healing, driving out demons and performing miracles in the Lords name yet according to scripture Jesus says get away from me, I do not know you!
Trouble is the oil used today in churches is olive oil, how the church came to this, I have no idea, and considering we must test everything, including church practices, how do we know this olive oil is not a tradition handed down by men! Which we are also warned by scripture to watch out for.
I had spent a few years searching scriptures about healing, as I have witnessed to many times in many church false healings'. And worse I have seen people say I was healed of my headache, while the person with kidney disease dies etc.
But when asked why this is, the response is "it is the sovereignty of God", so we can't question it! This is rubbish! I believe personally that we don't know the answer to this because we haven't bother seeking it out! Scripture says seek and you shall find, ask and it shall be given, knock and the door shall be opened to you! This started me on a long journey of discovery, which I will cut down because of this blog! The anointing of James is the Moses anointing oil of exodus reserved for priests, prophets and kings. The reason Christians can be anointed is because we are under Christ his sons and daughters! Christ means anointed and Christians means anointed ones! It strictly is reserved though for us believers and must not be poured on non-believers. And a person whom makes the oil must not use it on themselves, quite strict instructions, what-ever it touches becomes sacred unto the Lord.
But the water gets murky because when I examined the recipe of the anointing oil, Cinnamon, Cassia, sweet calumus, myrrh and olive oil. I found that cassia is a blood thinner and must be used carefully or one can hemorrhage with to much and to much can harm the kidneys! Then also Calamus is also toxic especially the Indian version which probably what was used! So much so that it use was restricted to using just the roots! When I researched the Hebrew word, I found this is a mis-interpretation its word in Hebrew is Kanneh-bosem, This means reed or cane. This is where now I will probably loose credibility because it is controversial. Turns out it is Cannabis! I studied this much further and opened a whole new world of Government conspiracy of lies, big company greed, an understanding of the destroying of the earth by mans' pursuit of wealth! I suggest if I still have your attention at this stage you look up double blind pubmed studies, also research into the Cannabidiol system. CBD (non psycho-active compound of Cannabis) THC and cancer, CB1 and CB2 receptors and it's role with immune function. The true history of Marijuana.
Then realize that perhaps when the Two Witnesses of Revelation come (the two sons of oil) description also in Zechariah as two olive trees, will be dressed in Hemp cloth not goats hair as some scholars believe. Even perhaps even fine linen cloth made from hemp (white priestly garments). Research these things, even the reeds height of the man in linen cloth's height is similar to the height of hemp, not flax!
These are just a few things, but if you go down this path you will be persecuted, you been warned.
See God uses both medicine and miracles to heal, example why did Jesus take soil and mix it with spit to put in the blind mans eyes! He could of healed him by word alone could he not! Or tell the seven lepers to go an wash in the river, then present themselves to the temple priests. These are just a few of many examples and shows the wisdom of God.
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Hosea 4:6
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”