Describe the importance of the healing miracles of Jesus for Christian life today?
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Describe the importance of the healing miracles of Jesus for Christian life today? People become sick, they get old and die. Christians believe that this originated from the 'fall' in the garden of Eden. However, Jesus came to take sin and sickness away as well as death. Jesus did this with his resurrection but it still needs to be completed in the future. Christians believe that those who believe in this will share in this future Kingdom. The power that Jesus had to heal sickness and forgive sin was a way of showing what this new Kingdom would be like. Jesus performed many healing miracles and many of them are recorded in Luke. He healed the paralysed man (Luke 5:18-25) and the blind beggar (Luke 18:35-43) as well as the woman with the haemorrhage (Luke 8: 43-48) and Peter's mother-in-law (Luke 4: 38-39). It didn't matter whether they were male or female,...

