Objection: Jesus Said That the Sick Need a Physician, Not a Healing Evangelist

The point Jesus made about the physician was that He wasn’t helping those who thought they needed no help – He was helping those who knew that they needed it.  They thought they were “whole” people who needed no doctor, but He came for the “sick” people who needed one.

He was certainly not teaching that in the Church Age, people should to go only to doctors and never to healing evangelists!

Jesus would not be so empty-headed as to place in the church the office of “evangelist” (Ephesians 4:11, also seen in “miracles” and “gifts of healings” in 1 Corinthians 12:28) and then declare that no one should ever go see such a person, but head to the doctor instead!  I prove elsewhere that God is not AGAINST going to an earthly doctor, but He never MANDATED that someone seek solely human help while forsaking divine help.

The other point that the objector misses is that God called Himself a Physician.  The Hebrew word rapha in Exodus 15:26 is translated physician in some other places.  So if you’re sick, you can go both to earthly physicians and to the Great Physician. Jesus had other people think of Him as a Physician, too, when they wanted to quote the proverb, “Physician, heal thyself” to Him.  (Luke 4:23: “And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.”)