Objection: God Does Not Heal All Because He Didn’t Heal Isaac or Jacob of Bad Eyesight

This objects to a statement that no thinking person should make anyway: “God heals all.”  God doesn’t heal all, and He doesn’t save all, either, if you go by the results of some people’s failure to receive what grace has provided.  Those who come to Him in faith to receive forgiveness of sins get saved.  Those who come to Him in faith to receive healing get healed.  Others stay unsaved and unhealed.

Isaac and Jacob did not ask God to heal their eyesight, nor would they have had a real basis for faith.  God’s covenant of healing was not explicitly stated until Exodus 15:25-26, where God made His covenant through Moses, a man who kept good eyesight throughout his life (Deuteronomy 34:7)!  Why not major on Moses’s eyesight instead of Isaac’s or Jacob’s?  Isaac and Jacob had no promise of healing, but Moses did.  Why not major on someone who lived AFTER God made His first healing covenant than on two people who lived BEFORE God made His first healing covenant?

Isaac’s eyes and Jacob’s eyes do not contradict the statement that God will heal ALL those who come to Him in faith for healing.  No one, including you, can produce a statement from the Bible where Jesus turned away a blind person, or even a person with bad eyesight, who came to Him in faith for healing.

You could name some other people in Scripture who were not healed, too, but you cannot prove in any of these cases that it was the will of God for them to stay sick.  Would you base your conduct on that of Ananias, Sapphira, Judas or Jezebel?  Their conduct is written in the Bible, but that doesn’t mean that their conduct was God’s will.  You cannot make doctrine out of verses that simply state historical facts.  You make doctrine out of verses that are intended as doctrine, such as the verses in Exodus cited above.  From those verses, God’s intention regarding healing is clear.  Anyone’s failure to appropriate it does not change the will of God in the matter.