Objection: Jesus and the Apostles Did Not Teach People to Deny Their Symptoms

No, they didn’t and neither do I!

Denying that your symptoms exist is the trademark of the Christ-denying cult misleadingly called Christian Science.  Faith preachers are mistakenly lumped with these cultists by some passionate but misleading authors.

We deny the right of symptoms to continue in our bodies, but we do not deny their existence.

We can, like God, call those things that be not as though they were, but we don’t go around calling those things that are as though they were not.

Comments like this are often made by people who really don’t understand what divine healing teachers are saying.  They think that we teach people with symptoms to LIE by saying, “I am symptom-free!”  But we don’t endorse that.

Denial is downright dangerous.  Denial can lead you to an early grave.  Faith is not denial.  Faith can look at the symptoms, acknowledge their existence, but declare, “I am healed because I believed that I received my healing when I prayed.  That healing is now working itself out in my body and driving out the remaining symptoms.”  Of course, this assumes that you obeyed Jesus’ instructions and DID believe that you received your healing when you prayed.

When Jesus cursed the fig tree, it began to dry up from the roots, but no one could see that happen.  The next day the results were evident to everyone.  Notice that after Jesus cursed the fig tree, He did not say, “I deny that this fig tree still has green leaves!  I deny that this fig tree looks alive!”  The fig tree no doubt had green leaves and looked alive, but Jesus saw past those “symptoms” of life and knew that the tree was as good as dead because He had spoken to it in faith.

Likewise, we do not deny the symptoms that we see and feel, but we see past those symptoms and we know that the underlying condition is as good as dead because we believed that we received healing for it when we prayed.  (Or we did the equally good alternatives of commanding the underlying sickness to die in the name of Jesus or having hands laid on us for healing in the name of Jesus.)