Who received the power to forgive and heal from Jesus?

Answer 1

//Everything that Jesus did, He did in the name of the Heavenly Father. He took no credit himself.

Only God can forgive sins. The Jewish authorities knew this. Yet Jesus did the same. If that had been the end of matters, he would have been forgotten a long time ago as yet another jumped-up deluded wannabe with no authority.

But that was not the end of matters. Jesus taught with God's authority (...you have heard it said.... but I tell you...) he performed miracles (only God could do that) and he was raised from death- the ultimate accomplishment of the original Covenant sworn between God and humans way back in history at the dawn of civilisation.

Jesus said once, if you do not believe what I say - that I am God the Son - believe in the miracles. Believe what you see with your own eyes. The final miracle of the resurrection was the culmination of three years' ministry of God incarnate.

No one could have been just a human and did and said just what Jesus did and said. He would have either been a madman or a fool - and a very clever one at that to fool all of the people all of the time, or the devil of hell. You can accept him or reject him. But you cannot say that he was just a 'good guy' or a 'prophet' or a 'great teacher'. He didn't leave those options open to us and never intended to. Either Jesus was God the Son, with the power and authority to forgive sins (as all the evidence bears out) or a madman or something worse (where none of the evidence fits). Your choice.

Either Jesus is contradicting himself or we do not want to let go of our impulse to go one believing in mythological figures like Zeus, and Ishtar etc. We kept the stories just baptized the story. Oh, I am sorry, baptism also has the same roots. So let us say we Christianized it. If you read The Bible carefully time and time again you will find Jesus confessing that he had no powers of his own except for those which were given to him by The Father who had "sent him". Some say it is because on earth he was a man god. so he was given power. Before he came to earth he was SENT. But we say that he was God. If he was God how someone else could have SENT him. That shows an authority over Jesus before he was SENT. And He is the one who gave him powers. He told he had authority on earth to forgive sins. But he also said, Jn 20:21-23 reads: "... As the Father has sent Me, so I send you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them: 'Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."

Here we see him creating a parallel. He is giving authority as someone else gave him. So the power was never his own. At the end, Bible tells us that he is going to submit himself to Father. "1 Corinthians 15:28

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. "

We can safely conclude three things from this discussion:

1- Jesus had Father above him before he came to Earth

2- All the authority that that he had was given to him, he could not do anything on his own.

3- At the end he will have to subject him self to God so that God May be all in all.

Now in here where do we see Jesus being equal to God. Borrowed light does not make Moon equal to Sun.

A New Testament perspective:The answer to your question is, Yes.

Matthew 9:5-7 - "For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins"- then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." And he arose and departed to his house.[NKJV]

Answer 2

Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church believes that in light of the following verses, the power to forgive sins was given to the Apostles, and through "apostolic succession" to Bishops and Priest of the Catholic Church.

JN 20:19-23

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. (Jesus) said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."

MT 16:18-19

And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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