Why Christian
healing is not for everybody everywhere, every time has nothing to do God;
Jesus, the Son of God, or the written Word of God, the Bible. It has everything to do with the Christian
perception of a blank check signed in Jesus’ blood for healing who can pray or
say the appropriate biblical quote.
What is Healing?
Healing is restoration,
recovery, and repair to health and wholeness from conditions of sickness and
disease. Healing is cure from what ails.
Humans challenged by sickness and
disease for which no healing is forthcoming seek out doctors, ministers, holistic
healers, indigenous healers, practitioners of different and dark arts holding any
hope for cure. Few instantly heal. Some
improve. Others do not. Many suffer and die.
Are these differences in healing results
matters of incorrect applications of faith in the written Word of God, the
Bible; or something more? Christian
healing is not for everybody, everywhere every time.
Jesus and Healing
The
Christian Belief in divine healing of sickness and disease has origin in the
written Word of God, the Bible. Acts of
God in the Hebrew Bible Old Testament demonstrated God an occasional healer of
sickness and disease. Acts of Jesus in Christian New Testament demonstrated Jesus an occasional healer of
sickness and disease. Acts of the Apostles (the chosen) of Jesus
demonstrated the Apostles occasional healers of sickness and disease.
The biblical writings of the Apostles recorded in
Greek and translated into English form the basis for the Christian perception
of healing. This prompts many Christians
to believe that saying what the Bible says on healing guarantees personal healing
for everybody everywhere every time.
Examples of their writing include, “Who
his own self (Jesus) bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we, being
dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed (1
Peter 2:24). This text prompts the
belief a blank check for healing signed in Jesus’ blood guarantees personal
healing. Does this mean every sickness
from our sore throats, influenza, HIV and Cancer, or something else?
Others include, “What things soever
ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24)” Is this an implied guarantee because it is written. Was that the purpose of the inspiration of
the Apostle’s biblical writings?”
Another says, “If ye abide in me, and
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you
(John 15:7). If this is a guarantee, does it mean people
are not saying the words right? Might there be another explanation when 100
sick and diseased Christians pray the same prayer for healing and few heal?
Preacher and Pastor Teaching
Preachers and pastors who teach
healing is for all Christians everywhere all the time say more than they are
able to prove. When they teach it God’s
will to pray the words that guarantee healing because they are the written in
the Bible encourage a placebo of hope. Their words the equivalent of snake oil pharmaceuticals
of the old west as cure for everything.
When Christians die who have followed
the healing teachings of their preacher pastors as the will of God, families receive
subsequent messages their loved one’s death is the will of God and their time
to die. Which was the will of God, to
pray for healing as believed written or to die because it is their time? Are these diametrically opposed perspectives
reconcilable? Is an answer available?
The question is one of faith. Christian faith established on evidence is
contrary to the apostolic writing of Hebrews 11 that says, “Now Faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Where knowledge exists, faith is unnecessary.
Is it possible to know the will of
God? Is it simply arrogant presumption
for humans to believe the will of the divine available to human understanding? Is faith in the unknown the key to the
answer? Whatever the answer really is Christian
healing is not for everybody everywhere every time.
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