About This Book and Its Author

Big Healing Book
Release 1.00 (Web Version)
Release Date: November 18, 2025

Differences Between the Website Version and the PDF Version

This is the Web version of Big Healing Book, which is also available in its entirety at cstephenyoung.com as a stand-alone downloadable PDF file (BigHealingBook.PDF).

The content in both versions is the same except for notes like the one above that are specific to a platform.  The healing-related content is identical, except that the website version has been formatted differently to appear more nicely and flexibly on phones and smaller devices.

Links in the PDF version sometimes to directly to locations within articles, while the website links always go to the top of a linked article.

The Index is structured differently on two versions, though both versions contain the same links between articles in the Index and elsewhere.

The website version always shows options to navigate directly to the Home page and the major sections, while the PDF version does not.

The PDF version, once it is downloaded, does not require an internet connection, while the website version obviously does.

The section for new readers has a long title on the PDF version and is simply called Huh? on the website version to save menu space.  The section’s contents are identical.

The website version allows you to use a browser’s website search feature to locate anything you want across the entire website with clickable links to the articles that contain what you searched for.  For example, you could click Search and then your Microphone button to tell your phone what to look for without keystrokes.  You can use the Ctrl-F feature on a PDF reader to search the entire file for the content of your choice, which will probably be presented one at a time without clickable links.

The Back and Forward buttons on a browser do what you would expect on the website version, but not all PDF readers support these functions.  Many browsers take you out of the PDF file completely if you click the Back button, and some do not have a Forward button.

Anyone can start using the website version immediately, but the PDF file must be downloaded and then used with a browser or PDF reader that can handle its size and internal links.

The PDF version contains an extra section about using it successfully on different devices.  This is not needed for the website version, which automatically adapts to different devices.

Why Two Versions?

The PDF version is available as well as the website version because:

1.       It’s an insurance policy that you can still have the entire book even if the website ends up being censored or banned, either in your country or everywhere.

2.       It can be snuck into places as a file where the content could already be considered illegal.

3.       It lets you read the book anywhere without an internet connection, making it the better choice if you’re somewhere where the internet is spotty or unavailable.

General Information About This Book and About Me

This book has 272 primary discussions with 2 side discussions reachable from other ones, answers to 290 questions and refutations of 467 objections as well as an article about answering any objections not listed.  Other useful features are reachable from the first page.

The book can take you as deep as you want to go.  You can learn enough to be rid of a bodily problem in the first couple of articles.  If you want help with questions or are concerned about arguments made against divine healing, you can look them up.  If you want extensive “deep dives” into Greek and Hebrew, they’re here too.  This book is more a reference than something you just sit and read from beginning to end.  You can click on the parts that interest you.

I’ll spare you the tradition of writing this in the third person as if some biographer stepped in to write it about me.  Nobody has bothered writing a biography of me yet!

My name is C. Stephen Young.  The C stands for Chester; I go by Steve.  I wrote this book to spread as much knowledge of divine healing to as many people as possible as quickly and easily as possible.  Skeptics can read it without having to pay for it, which they probably would not do.

Don’t think that you must memorize my monolithic monograph to really understand healing!  It isn’t that hard.  This book covers a lot of ground and takes on some questions I’ve never seen answered in print.  Some of the objections raised by seminary professors might not interest you at all unless you are in seminary yourself, and the refutations are examples of topics I’ve not seen addressed elsewhere.  I sometimes lament the lack of proper theology in Spirit-filled circles; there is not only room for it but a crying need for it.  Theology is not a bad thing; only BAD theology is a bad thing.

Despite its length, this book is not a “be-all-and-end-all” reference on divine healing.  There are other good books, videos and other resources about healing by authors who have other insights and experience, and I’m sure that more will be produced that will offer insights you won’t find here.  For example, there are many biographies of famous healing ministers and stories of healing throughout church history.  I don’t attempt to get into those realms, as others are better qualified to write such books.  While this book has some testimonies, other writers share dramatic testimonies that you won’t find here.

This book is not an attempt to put out a semi-plagiarized version of other good books, nor is it an attempt to summarize anyone’s Bible School curriculum in one free volume with my name on it.  I did my own Bible research; I don’t just parrot popular preachers.  The result is a book that contains some teachings that I have never seen published elsewhere.  Some of them contradict ideas that are fairly well-accepted at this writing.  I never just took anyone’s word for what something said “in the Hebrew” or “in the Greek.”  I found that studying the underlying original words sometimes led to different conclusions from what I had been taught.  In some cases, seminary professors objecting to the use of certain verses in faith circles had legitimate points.

The opinions expressed in this book are mine, so don’t blame anyone else for them, including the church and ministerial association to which I belong!  I wrote this whole book myself; none of it was produced by a ghostwriter, an assistant or AI.  Some people may not like my style, my sense of humor or the broad range of content in this book, but there are other books with other styles and narrower scopes.

This book always uses the masculine in statements like, “Everyone has his own preference in grammar.”  This is grammatically correct and it is not intended to limit the statements to males.  I didn’t need to clutter an already long book with phases such as “Everyone has his or her own preference in grammar” or use the commonly-spoken but grammatically mismatched “Everyone has their own preference in grammar.”  So I’m not sexist, just in case you were wondering.

Within Scripture verses, my comments and clarifications that are not part of the original text are in square brackets.  For example: “Surely he has borne our griefs [literally sicknesses] and carried out sorrows [literally pains].”  These remarks are not found in the official King James Version, which I use throughout unless otherwise noted.  I am not a KJV stickler; I don’t think that people in other countries have to learn 1611 English in order to read God’s true Word or that no one had the real Word until the day of King James.  However, it is one of the most faithful translations from the original languages, and most importantly for me, it’s in the public domain.  I used too many verses to be permitted to use other copyrighted versions within their licensing terms.  Any time that a particular part of a verse is underlined, that is my emphasis on that part of it – nothing is underlined in the original text.

You are welcome to post or link to this book on websites, download centers, internet drives and so on, email the PDF version to all your friends (if it doesn’t exceed their attachment size limits, which in some cases it will) and make non-audio CDs and thumb drives with this book as a PDF file on them, as long as you don’t modify it and you don’t charge anyone for it.  You can also copy it to any publicly accessible location as long as no one has to pay to access it.  I’m not charging for it, so it would be unfair for others to make money off a book that I put all the work into and gave out for free.

Getting the PDF version from cstephenyoung.com will ensure that it hasn’t been tampered with and will give you the latest revision if there are any future revisions, though none are planned at this time.  The electronic format lends itself to future updates if I ever feel inclined to make them.

Making this book free to everyone is not intended to make any kind of statement against ministries that charge for materials.  It costs money to produce physical products.  I have no problem with any ministry making money on product sales.  If the ministry is good, I hope it makes a lot of money!

This book does not advertise any product on which I personally make money, nor does it ask for a donation.  I am not so foolish and fake-humble that I will turn away gifts if people want to send them (they can do so at cstephenyoung.com), but that option is for people who want to bless me and my efforts “behind the scenes.”  You are not a chintzy freeloader if you read this book and don’t send me money – I WANT you and everyone else to be able to read this book without sending me money!

However, this free model does not support having a call-in prayer hotline.  Other fine ministries have such hotlines available.

The article names and author names used in my sample anti-healing articles are fake.  I’m not out to embarrass anyone, nor do I care to provide free publicity to authors and material I don’t recommend.   You might recognize some of the arguments from certain books that you’ve had the misfortune to read.

This is a book to help you understand healing, not a term paper, so you won’t see footnotes or the word ibid.  I even made up some of my own words that would flunk any spell checker, just because I felt like it!

I’ve preached healing in the United States and several other countries, started two churches (at this writing) and have also led worship and played piano and drums (not simultaneously) at conferences here and abroad.

I am not the former NFL quarterback who made the name Steve Young famous, but at least I can say I’m a famous-name preacher.  (I tackled that question so people don’t rush to snap conclusions based on incomplete information.)  He’s been a passer and I’ve been a pastor who intentionally grounds people in the Word.  We’ve both labored in the field, hoped for good receptions, gone for conversions, made points, done plenty of kneeling and had a ball doing our jobs, but only one of us thinks possession and offense are good things.

I go by Steve among friends, but I discovered that there was already an unrelated Steve Young Ministries as well as a famous secular singer/songwriter named Steve Young who lived in Tennessee, which is where I (a singer/songwriter as well) also live at this writing.  I go by C. Stephen Young professionally to avoid confusion.

I don’t know everything on the subject of healing.  This book is my effort to share what I DO know.  I want people to receive the healing that Jesus already paid for them to have.

I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Steve Young
cstephenyoung.com