Topic 10 Healing

Question 1

Give a summary of the healing of the paralysed man ❤️‍🩹 mark 2:1-12

Answer 1

1. Jesus preaching in a full house
2. Ppl brought paralytic man ♿️ , but cos there was such a crowd had to lower him in via hole in roof
3. Jesus ‘saw his faith’ (the man) and told him his ‘sins are forgiven’
4. Teachers 👨‍🏫 of law critical - jesus = blaspheming 🤬as ‘who can forgive sins but god alone’
5. Jesus knows their 💭 + tells them that easier to say sins are forgiven then take up his 🛏 and walk 🕺 -> adds that Son of Man has authority to forgive sins
6. Tells paralytic to get up and he does
7. Everyone = amazed 😯 🤩 and they 🙏 god 👏

Question 2

What does the healing of the paralysed man show about Jesus?

Answer 2

1. Jesus = popular -> ppl curious 🤨 about who he is
2. Ppl are divided -> some sceptical of his claims (blasphemous) or convinced (telling truth)
3. Authority to forgive sins (which ppl at the time thought only god could do)
4. Men who brought paralysed man to house showed faith - key theme in ✝️
5. Has divine knowledge (knows what teachers of law are thinking)

Question 3

Give a summary of the healing of the haemorrhaging woman (Luke 8:40-49) 🩸 🧕

Answer 3

1. woman ill 🤒 for 12 years, incurable
2. Touched Jesus’ cloak 🧥 + bleeding stopped 🩸 ✋
3. Jesus asked who touched him ‘I know that power ✨ has gone out from me’
4. Woman throws herself at Jesus’ feet. 🦶 Jesus says ‘daughter, go in peace, your faith 🙏 has made you well’

Question 4

What does the story of the haemorrhaging woman show about Jesus?

Answer 4

1. Jesus’ power greater than doctors (failed to heal her) instant healing
2. Shows compassion to woman by talking + healing here
3. Doesn’t care that she is ritually unclean according to Jewish law, and by touching jesus he is ritually unclean as well. Instead makes her clean
4. Doesn’t have social status but woman’s faith was strongest and that healed her

Question 5

Explain each of the 4 main features of Jesus’ ministry of healing ❤️‍🩹

Answer 5

1. Faith
   - > faith heals (only those who have faith get better)
2. Spiritual health vs Physical health
   - > spirituality > physicality when he forgives paralysed man of sins BEFORE healing him
3. Compassion
   - > no judgement / discrimination eg haemorrhaging woman + leper
4. Son of God
   - > miracles prove divinity + set him apart from other preachers

Question 6

What are Jesus’ miracles also called and why?

Answer 6

SIGNS

-> point towards his divinity

Question 7

Significance of jesus for Christian’s in relation to his healing miracles : point about healing in past + present

Answer 7

1. Ppl look to healing miracles to claim that jesus heals people today as he did in past
2. Belief that some ppl have gift of healing (eg mother t, lump) + there are special places eg Lourdes where god heals us
3. Hope that you can pray for healing and it will happen

Question 8

Liberal Christians (like David Hume) argue that miracles aren’t evidence for jesus being son of god. Why?

Answer 8

1. Exaggerated stories -> still have important message

2. No empirical evidence of them - need to look for alternative explanations

Question 9

Other liberal Christians believe that jesus doesn’t heal us physically today, but….?

Answer 9

Emotionally/psychologically

Question 10

What do fundamentalist Christians believe?

Answer 10

Miracles of jesus -> literally true

1. Tells us that he is son of god
2. Cos he did things 🧪 impossible so had to be divine -> son of god
3. Cos these stories have stood test of time -> true -> work of son of god

Question 11

Why would christians believe that jesus is for everyone?

Answer 11

Healed even outcasts of society

Question 12

Why would some christians argue that the healings show jesus had little regard for Jewish rules like cleanliness?

Answer 12

• was undisturbed by ritually unclean haemorrhaging woman touching him (doesn’t reject her)

Question 13

‘Jesus’ healing miracles prove he is the son of God’ against points

Answer 13

1. Miracles = could have been exaggerated over time
2. Miracles = not unique to just jesus, mother Teresa and other people have healed people miraculously, so doesn’t prove his divinity

Question 14

‘Jesus’ healing miracles prove he is the son of god’ for points (analyse against points)

Answer 14

1. Analysis -> importance doesn’t lie in detail and the physical miracles, it’s characteristics displayed by jesus in these that show he is son of god
2. For -> if miracles are caused by supernatural agency and Jesus is the cause of miraculous healings and events in nature, then it follows that he must be God’s son
   - > miracles are often called signs because they are signs of his divinity and relationship with God