Objection: Christ’s Sin-Bearing Is Repeated Throughout the New Testament, but Healing Is Almost Never Mentioned with It.  If Healing Were in the Atonement, It Would Be Mentioned Consistently.

Take a look at all the passages in the New Testament where people were healed!  You can go to the New Testament Scriptures about Healing section and see a rather extensive list, actually.  If you go through it, you will see that the New Testament has a LOT to say about the healing that is ours because of Jesus!  The only reason healing is available to all and so many could receive it was because of Christ’s sin-bearing.  Some people before Calvary got healed on credit just as people in Numbers 21:5-9 were healed on credit when they looked at the symbol of Christ dying on the cross (the serpent that Moses lifted up).  Then Christ’s disciples went all over the place doing the works of Jesus, seeing healings and miracles, signs and wonders.  A LOT of space in the New Testament is devoted to miracles.  Actually, you can verify for yourself (if you wish) that the number of New Testament passages about healings and miracles FAR EXCEEDS the number of passages about Jesus paying for our sins!

Some aspects of heaven are mentioned only ONCE in the New Testament at the very end.  They are just as much part of the Word as Jesus’ bearing of our sins, which is mentioned far more.  Something doesn’t have to be mentioned more than ONCE to be true, and if you get two or three Bible witnesses to something, that should really settle things for you.  There are a lot more than two or three New Testament passages about healing!  How often do you think something must be mentioned in the Bible before you believe that it’s true?

Some “healing” verses are statements of our redemption from Satan’s power.  It is clear that Satan is the sickener and that Jesus came to undo Satan’s works (1 John 3:8) and bring people out of Satan’s power (Acts 26:18) into the kingdom of God’s dear Son (Colossians 1:13).  Because Satan is under our feet, so are his works, which notably include disease as well as temptations to sin.

The fact is, there are A LOT MORE verses in the New Testament that testify of healing miracles that changed people’s bodies than there are verses that describe the just-as-miraculous changes in people’s hearts after they were born again.  But don’t worry; I won’t come up with an objection that the new birth must not be in the atonement because personal testimonies of moral improvement in the Bible are so much rarer than testimonies of healings that are ours courtesy of Christ’s atonement.