Was my answer based upon my own speculations?
Doesn’t Jesus tell us to come to him?
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
Didn’t Jesus tell us to go make disciples of all the nations?
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
In fact it seems more important to..
2 Timothy 4:1-4
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Because..
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
I don’t think anything has been surprised but all has been revealed. I think maybe you have a problem with the answer?
The Bible is a book of prophecy...and there is no doubt in my mind that things will turn out just the way the Bible says.
Yup you are completely deflecting away from answering the actual question of why is there no one in the church that is able to heal the way the apostles did?
""So those who were scattered went on their way preaching the message of good news. 5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them. 6
The crowds paid attention with one mind to what Philip said, as they heard and saw the signs he was performing. 7 For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.8 So there was great joy in that city." (Acts 8:4-8)"
Do you see this Lisa. It says in the book of Acts that people paid attention because they saw and heard the signs. The only sign that people see today is the frequent occurrence of ridiculous arguments between people who believe in once saved always saved and people who don't; or people trying to defend the trinity.
None of this really matters to anyone listening to these arguments. It only serves the ego of the one who is sharing this information. It would be a lot better if people could do something that was actually useful to someone else, and we have concluded that you don't have an answer for why no one is able to do this.
It is just a reality, that if there is no historical Israel, there is no reason to blindly accept the prophecy as it exists. I have been a Christian for 20 years and I really don't mind if you consider me a Catholic. I'm not one to jump around calling myself different things.
Anyways, I have read the Bible cover to cover over ten times. I have taken classes in Christian college after the year 2010. Even if you were to say that it was controversial to include something historical regarding Israel as it existed in ancient times within my children's Christian homeschool curriculum. There would be nothing controversial about including this within a Christian college level curriculum and yet there is not one Biblical archeology class in any Christian college that exists within the US where they have the freedom to integrate information like this within the curriculum.
This is because it is not there to add.
I have also attended very large, somewhat wealthy churches in my community before. This church was a 5/5 star church. Kind, generous, I was pleasantly naive that there was a world that existed where Christians went around labeling each other as saved and unsaved before coming here. I can't even imagine most of these people as being capable of this.
But there was money and a large population at this church. There was complimentary coffee before services, elaborate youth groups, and a snack table in my bible study classes. It was the pinnacle of what you would expect of a church. A full exercise of privilege and religious freedom. Nevertheless, these people had money and a lot of influence within the community. If there was legitimate information about a historical Israel, you better believe someone would be petitioning to have this information included at the college level at a minimum.
But there is nothing to add.
I lived in a community with Christian bookstores. I was able to buy magnets, coffee mugs, pens, journals, fiction, nonfiction all with a Christian influence. All stamped with a verse or two here or there. I could buy these items for anyone, Christian or nonChristian and no one would have been offended by this. There has really been nothing but social acceptance and encouragement of my faith since I became a Christian.
But the reality is that there is no evidence of a corresponding archeological history to support believing in the Bible as a historical record.
So after all of this privilege including the privilege to dig with the sole purpose of finding information to support the reality of a historical Israel, I realize that many people default to seeing the general population moving away from the church as though it were evidence of some kind of persecution.
But it is really just evidence that there is no evidence to continue believing and promoting that the Bible is a historical record. In reality, most of these people are tiptoeing around the possibility of offending someone who considers themself a Christian with this information because what they have found should already be included in schools. They should already be openly pointing out that after almost 200 years, there is no evidence of an exodus taking place, but they can't do this because of the pressure they would get from the Christian population. These people would complain about including this information even if it is a plain fact at this point in time.
So there is no reason to believe that the book of Revelation is going to actually happen or to consider it any differently than the way we currently consider any of the dead sea scrolls. If anything, considering the massive amount of privilege, you might want to be careful that someone doesn't end up trying to take advantage of the fact that this is what you believe. You belong to a demographic that technically gets special treatment even.
Furthermore, it would be better for you to say that you don't know why there is no healing after the disciples. I would respond by saying that your answer is just not good enough. I did homeschool, my children, because their education is very important to me. The accuracy of this information is also important to me.
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