Objection: Jesus Did No More Healing Miracles After He Rose from the Dead

The objector is trying to build a case that Jesus’ healing ministry was a unique event, limited to His earthly ministry before He died, and that the “fact” that it did not continue after His resurrection proves it.  This supposedly means that we should not have healing events today.

Based on that illogic, we should not preach the gospel to the unsaved, either.  Jesus appeared to those who believed in Him, but we don’t see Him preaching to unbelievers after He rose.  So based on this objector’s argument, there should be no more evangelistic meetings today because Jesus was done reaching unbelievers during His earthly ministry!  But we can see that this falls apart because Jesus told us to go preach the gospel to everyone, promising that He would be with us even until the end of the age.  Thus, the gospel should be preached until He returns, so evangelistic meetings are appropriate until He returns.  Of course, if we’re going to preach, we should preach the full gospel as they did in the Bible, not just the stay-out-of-hell part of it.

Biblically, the argument is incorrect at face value anyway.  Luke opens the book of Acts stating that his former treatise (the gospel of Luke) was about all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day when He was taken up (Acts 1:1-2)!  So Jesus was not done doing and teaching just because He ascended to heaven!  He was only beginning something at that time, not ending it!  Jesus is still doing miracles and teaching today through His Body, the Church.  He isn’t doing it physically in person as He did when He walked the earth, but we who are now walking the earth are His vessels through whom He can CONTINUE to do and teach things.

Also, this objection can’t be right because the BIBLE is right in the case of Peter and Aeneas.  In Acts 9:34, Peter said to Aeneas, “Jesus Christ makes you whole.”  So Jesus was STILL making people whole after He rose to heaven – through His Church.  So the assertion that Jesus did no more miracles after He rose from the dead has been disproven, and this objection is toast.