Objection: Jesus Could Not Have Borne All Birth Defects; His Body Would Have Lost Limbs and He Would Have Fallen off the Cross

Well for starters, if you want to get technical, we were healed by Jesus’ stripes, referring to the whipping post, not by His blood that was shed on the cross.  That is why the Lord’s Supper celebrates His body that was broken for you as well as His blood that was shed for you.  But there is certainly no evidence that Jesus lost limbs at the whipping post and got them back in time to die on the cross.  So what of this?  Did Jesus bear every malady except those associated with birth defects?  After all, He could not go back and be born with a birth defect, so how could He truly bear birth defects anyway?  Gee, maybe what first appeared to be a really smart-alecky objection carries some weight after all and we’d better dig into this a bit.

We know that some people are born with damaged chromosomes that cause a variety of appearance and functional issues, including being born without certain body parts and being born with abnormal body parts.  I would maintain that Jesus could have briefly borne chromosomal abnormalities in some of His cells without having the full results of them manifest.  If that seems far-fetched, well, how do you explain that He bore what were probably at least trillions of sins, past, present and future the day He was whipped?  A lot of what He did is just as hard to comprehend mentally as the Trinity, yet we aren’t commanded to repent and intellectually understand the gospel!  Fortunately, we’re only commanded to repent and believe it!  If the Bible, which has the last word in all matters of doctrine and conduct, says that Jesus bore our sicknesses and carried our pains (Isaiah 53:4), we are duty-bound to believe it, no matter how hard that may seem or what mental difficulties that might impose.  There is absolutely no evidence that Jesus left birth defects or chromosomal irregularities out of His atonement, while there is ample evidence that He didn’t leave them out, given that people with bad conditions from birth were healed in the New Testament, and given that people today have testimonies of being healed of them and seeing others healed of them.

Your mind might fight you as far as believing for healing from a birth defect – “Do you realize that all the strands of DNA in 37 TRILLION CELLS would all have to be repaired supernaturally?”  I don’t see how that is a problem for the same God who created billions of galaxies with billions of stars each in a single day.  Cannot the Creator of your body be its Repairer as well?  The question is not what God Almighty can do; the only question is what we can believe (Mark 9:23) – ALL things are possible to him who believes.  With God, ALL things are possible (Matthew 19:26), including the healing of genetic diseases.  We are redeemed from EVERY sickness and EVERY plague, no matter what its medical name, because Jesus was cursed in our place.