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The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Possible Parallels to Mormon Doctrine and Practices |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
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Page 12 of 30 12. LAYING
ON OF
HANDS FOR HEALING:
In the ISRAEL EXPLORATION JOURNAL, Vol. 7, No. 2,
1957, D. FLUSSER, then of the Hebrew University, on pages 107-108,
FLUSSER presents a short note on HEALING THROUGH THE LAYING-ON OF HANDS
IN A DEAD SEA SCROLL. After discussing portions of the GENESIS
APOCRYPHON, Col. xx.16-29, telling of the Pharaoh having become ill
sends for Abram to pray for the king and to lay his hands upon him that
he might live, so Abram prayed and laid his hands upon his head and
the plague departed from him and the evil (spirit) was gone and he
lived. FLUSSER comments: "Thus Abram healed Pharaoh by prayer and by
laying his hands on Pharaoh's head. The laying-on of hands for
healing purposes is not found in the Old Testament, nor in rabbinical
literature (as far as we know), but it appears many times in the New
Testament in the stories of healing related there of Jesus and his
disciples." We could add that it is a regular practice of most active
LDS members. FLUSSER continues: "From the Genesis Apocryphon it becomes
clear that healing through the laying-on of hands was practiced among
Jews, not only by Jesus and his first disciples, but by other circles
as well". The GENESIS APOCRYPHON was composed before Jesus' time.
FLUSSER comments: "Jesus was not the first to heal by the laying-on
hands, and that this practice was current in some Jewish circles." And
to day it is current among the LDS as a regular practice. FLUSSER
continues: "Additional proof that Jesus and his disciples used the word
.....for laying-on of hands for healing, as in the Genesis Apocryphon,
is found in the fact that the words (in greek) and (in greek) are used
in the New Testament to translate "the laying on of hands (Hebrew)
for ordination. Rabbinical literature also used the root (Hebrew) for
ordination".
{mospagebreak title=13 - Dwell With God on an Eternal
Height}13. DWELL WITH GOD ON AN ETERNAL HEIGHT IN ETERNAL LIGHT AND
FILL THE UNIVERSE WITH YOUR SEED:
See the quote for item 12 above from
the Serek Scroll. In the 1QapGen, YADIN, p. 45, there is a reference
that enlarges the concept that Abraham's seed will be like the sands
of the sea or the stars of the heavens "To thy seed will I give all
this land and they shall inherit it forever (in spite of what is
happening that threatens Israel today, they will still be there when
Christ comes to the Mount of Olives) And I will multiply they seed as
the dust of the earth which no man can number." In terms of just the
stable hydrogen atom, a single proton, NASA uses in its computations
the mass of the earth made up of hydrogen atoms using a number of 10
followed by 52 zeros. Which by the way, if multiplied by millions of
earths like this one, will be only a beginning of God's creations on
which each of them has billions of his children. Moses 7:30.
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