Objection: If Christ Died for Our Sicknesses, Then His Atoning Work in This Aspect is a Failure

The objector reasons that not all are healed today, so if Jesus provided healing in His atonement, His work was a failure.

If we go along with this, we must reason that because not all are saved from hell today, if Jesus provided salvation from hell in His atonement, His work was a failure.

If we can’t apply this fairly to the second case, we can’t apply it to the first one either.

What about the other parts of the inheritance that He gave us – love, joy, peace, prosperity, comfort, power, and so on?  If some people do not enjoy the blessings that His atonement made possible for us, does that make His work a failure in those regards as well?  No.

Nothing Jesus did for us was a failure.  What we have here is a failure to receive.

If someone goes to hell, Jesus’ atonement was still complete but the person did not RECEIVE what Jesus paid for.  It is the same with anything else, including healing.

The fact that something isn’t received doesn’t prove that it wasn’t given, regardless of which area above we discuss.  The fact is that God’s blessings were GIVEN when Jesus died for us, so His atoning work was a total success.  A failure on man’s end to receive something (whether the new birth or healing) doesn’t make anything that Jesus did a failure.