Objection: It’s Not Always God’s Will to Heal – He Didn’t Heal Many at Nazareth

Every now and then, someone embarrasses himself with an objection like this one.  Saying this proves only failure to read Matthew 13:54-58.  Mark 6:1-6 tells the story without explicitly citing the reason, though Mark notes that Jesus marveled at their unbelief, but it’s silly to use a story as an objection until you’ve read all the accounts of it.  Matthew is clear: “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”  That settles it right there.  Matthew declared that the people’s unbelief, not God’s unwillingness to heal, stopped the miracles from happening at Nazareth.  (If you think that it was God’s will for the people at Nazareth to be full of unbelief, you should probably switch to a different religion, like Christianity.)