Condition: Birth Defects

Jesus healed the man born blind in John 9:1-7.  He declared the healing of the man with this birth defect to be “the works of God.”  If that was the work of God then, healing birth defects is the work of God now.  Of course, having a birth defect does not mean that you or your parents are sinful.  Jesus explicitly said that the blind man’s birth defect was not his fault or his parents’ fault.

The beggar at the gate called Beautiful who was healed in Acts 3:1-16 had been lame from his mother’s womb.

The man in Acts 14:7-10 was a cripple from his mother’s womb.  He heard the gospel, which produced faith to be healed, and rose up healed.  This is proof that the gospel itself is sufficient to cure birth defects without any special manifestation of the Spirit when the afflicted person exercises faith in the gospel message.  The same faith that heals other conditions heals birth defects – no special kind of faith is required to see birth defects healed.

Being hunchbacked was cause to be excluded from certain temple service in Leviticus 21:16-23.  God said that it would profane His sanctuary to have such a person approach the altar.  Of course, under the New Covenant, the blood of Jesus gives everyone the right to approach God (Ephesians 1:6, Hebrews 10:19 and elsewhere).  But if God did not want such a condition in His temple back then, why should He want it in His temple now, when you are His temple?  He isn’t upset with YOU for having the condition; He’s upset with the devil for putting such conditions on people.

There is nothing “special” about birth defects, and if you have one or more of them, you are not one of “God’s special children,” born to “special parents.”  Those platitudes are just unbelieving words of false comfort spoken by those who do not believe that God heals all your diseases, as He declares that He does.  It is clear from the Scriptures above that Jesus Christ heals birth defects.

Let no man with a birth defect accuse God by saying, “Well, God made me this way!”  That wasn’t what Jesus had to say on the matter.  God did not make you that way.  You inherited an abnormal condition that stems back to sin and to the fall of man.  Healing is available to you today.  God is into removing birth defects, not handing them out!

What if a birth defect is chromosomal, and God would have to change every strand of DNA in the person’s body for the person to be healed?  That’s no big deal for God.  In the twinkling of an eye someday, everyone’s body will be changed, and ALL DNA issues will be instantly resolved simultaneously (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)!  God was able to create a snake out of a rod, and the snake would have had plenty of cells that had their own DNA (Exodus 7:10).  God created LOTS of frogs, lice, flies and locusts in Egypt, seemingly from nothing (Exodus 8:6, Exodus 8:17, Exodus 8:24, Exodus 10:13).  Frogs, lice, flies and locusts have DNA.  Eve’s DNA would have to have been different from Adam’s for her to be female, and God took a rib with Adam’s DNA in it and created Eve who had different DNA.  Every cell in that rib must have had its DNA changed.  So that just isn’t a big deal for God to pull off!