From: "Pat" <vanhoose@bright.net>

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:13:33

To: <WalterMartin@mail.serve.com>

Subject: Re: WM: Trials and tribulations

>Dave,

You wrote:

"Paul's thorn in the flesh was not sickness. You may accept that...but that is not true. It was a messenger of satan that came to harrass Paul. Does not God's Word promise healing? Mark 16:18; II Peter 2:24? What about Matthew 8:16-17? So if God does not heal everyone, does this mean He shows favoritism? Please explain...but be brief. Thanks!"

>

Ron wrote:

I set aside Mark 16 as a rule of thumb for the entire chapter is questioned by some scholars.

Ron,

I thought that it was verses 9-20 that were in question. Some of my study Bibles say that those verses are not in the earliest manuscripts.

Pat