Objection: Jesus Did Not Have Healings of Backaches and Headaches – Non-Organic Diseases That One Can’t Verify Visually – But Claims of Such Are Common with Faith Healers Who Lack His Power

The statement about Jesus is, first of all, an attempted argument from silence, which is shaky ground to begin with, as the Bible itself claims that it did NOT document all of Jesus’ works.  The very last verse in John 21:25 says, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”

Worse yet for the objector, Scripture is plain from Matthew’s gospel alone (we could go elsewhere) that Jesus healed “all manner of sickness and all manner of disease” (Matthew 4:23-24), “all that were sick” (Matthew 8:16-17), “every sickness and every disease” (Matthew 9:35), “their sick” (Matthew 14:14) and “all that were diseased...as many as touched Him” (Matthew 14:35-36).

Now you must either believe that headaches and backaches are diseases or that they are symptoms of some other physical problems.  In the first case, it is plain that Jesus healed those diseases as well as all others.  In the second case, it is clear that Jesus healed whatever conditions could possibly cause headaches and backaches.  In fact, even the maimed were healed in His ministry (see Matthew 15:30-31), so even headaches and backaches caused by accidents (as opposed to diseases) were also healed.

So I have to conclude that headaches and backaches, along with any root causes, were healed in Jesus’ ministry.

Now to the issue of “non-verifiable” cures in healing crusades.  First, it would be no small thing to me if I were the one with the headache or the backache, especially if the condition were chronic due to a migraine issue or a misaligned disc.  I’ve seen people healed of such things, including a person who had a three-month headache from an injury to her head!  She was VERY glad that Jesus still heals headaches today just as He used to.

But I understand that such things would not be visible to outsiders and that such healings could be “faked.”  But then again, there have been cases of sham healers who faked “organic” healings where people who were not in wheelchairs before the service got into them and then got out of them during the service.  You could “fake” almost anything, but that doesn’t mean that the real doesn’t happen – Jesus didn’t have to fake any healings!

So why are there so few verifiable, dramatic healings today compared to Jesus’ ministry?  I’ve put down some thoughts on that matter elsewhere in the form of what we could do so that we DO see more such healings.  But as I say throughout this book, we must not drag the Word down to our experience level, but rather strive to bring our experience level up to the Word.

“Yes,” someone will say, “but shouldn’t there at least be SOMEONE with Jesus’ level of consistent and notable miracles?”  I would say in all fairness, NO ONE, not even JESUS, would see the miracles that He saw in some places in most places today, which resemble Nazareth as far as unbelief goes.  It’s unfair to blame the preacher in a town where everyone is convinced that Paul’s thorn in the flesh was a horrible case of ophthalmia that God wouldn’t heal, just as it would unfair to blame Jesus when He visited His own hometown and was received quite badly, though not as badly as the first time when they tried to kill Him by throwing Him off a cliff!

In fact, to echo F. F. Bosworth, a famous healing minister during the first part of the 1900’s, the objectors to divine healing are largely responsible for creating the very atmosphere of unbelief that creates the lack of miracles!