Big Healing Book - Objections

Objections Overruled!

All Uses of Matthew’s Greek Word for “That It Might Be Fulfilled” Refer to Events Before the Atonement, So Matthew 8:17 Is Invalid as a Proof That Healing Is in the Atonement

There Is No Mention of the Atonement in Matthew 8:17 (Fulfilling Isaiah 53:4)

The Greek Word Used in Matthew 8:17 for “Took” Is Lambano, Which Never Means to Remove in a Mediatorial Sense

The Greek Word Used in Matthew 8:17 for “Bare” Is Bastazo, Which Is Never Used to Describe Atonement-Bearing of Sins and Diseases

Jesus’ Bearing of Sicknesses Is Just a Metonymy

“Our” Sicknesses in Matthew 8:17 Are Only from the Standpoint of the Jews in Capernaum Who Were Healed

Matthew 8:17 Refers to Physical Pain and Mental Anguish That Jesus Endured in His Own Life

Matthew 8:17 Means That Jesus Was “Bearing” the Consequences of Sin

Christ Was Made Sin but He Was Never Made Sickness

Jesus Did Not TAKE ON or BEAR Sicknesses in His Own Body in Matthew 8:17, So Isaiah Couldn’t Have Meant That Literally

Isaiah 53:4 Is Chronological – the First Part Refers to Jesus’ Earthly Healing Ministry and the Last Part to His Later Atonement. So His Bearing of Sicknesses Was Not Part of His Atonement.

The Context of Isaiah 53:5 Is That We Are Healed of Our Transgressions and Iniquities

Isaiah 1:5 and Hosea 5:13 Prove That Isaiah Used Sickness Only as a Metaphor for the Bad Condition of Israel

The Fact That Christians Get Sick Disproves That Healing Is in the Atonement

Healing Cannot Be in the Atonement Because Healing Can Be Lost, but Salvation Cannot Be Lost

If Healing Were in the Atonement, John Would Just Have Reminded Gaius That He Was Healed

Jesus’ Bearing of Our Sicknesses Meant His Sympathy for the Sufferers, Not Literally Taking Them on Himself, Which He Did Not Do in Matthew 8

Having a Disease Isn’t a Sin, So Jesus Didn’t Need to Atone for Our Sicknesses

Blood Atonement for Healing Is Unscriptural – Blood Atonement Is Only for Sin

People Can Be HEALED But Not SAVED as a Result of Someone Else’s Faith. Therefore, Healing Cannot Come by the Same Cross.

Jesus Bore Our Sicknesses in Matthew 8:17 Due to the Exertion Involved in Channeling God’s Healing Power

If Jesus Never Got Sick Before His Atonement, He Did Not Fully Participate in Our Human Experience

Paul GLORIED in His INFIRMITIES – the Same Greek Word Used in Matthew 8:17 of What Jesus Took. If Matthew 8:17 Refers to the Atonement, How Could Paul Glory in What Christ Took Away?

Death, Needing to Work and Painful Childbirth Are Effects of the Fall That Are Still with Us. We Seem to Be Selective About Which Effects We’re Redeemed From.

The Fact That Everyone Dies Proves That We Are All Still Subject to Adam’s Curse

The Earth Is Under a Curse Because of Adam, So Sickness Will Continue Until Jesus Returns

The Man in John 9 Exercised No Faith Until AFTER He Was Already Healed

Ten Lepers Were Healed but Only One Had Faith

Some People Were Healed Without Faith, So Faith Can’t Be Required for Healing

You WERE Healed in 1 Peter 2:24 Must Mean That You Were SAVED, Because Healing Is Still Ongoing in the Present for SAVED Believers

1 Peter 2:24 Means That You Were Healed from the Disease of Sin

Thayer’s Greek Lexicon Says That the Greek Word for Paul’s “Thorn” Means an Illness

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Says That the Greek Word for Paul’s “Thorn” Is Figurately a Bodily Annoyance or Disability

Matthew 13:15, John 12:39-41 and Acts 28:27 Prove That HEALED in 1 Peter 2:24 Doesn’t Have to Mean Physically Healed

Jesus Bore Our Sins, Not Our Sicknesses, on the Cross (1 Peter 2:24)

Nothing in Scripture Even Hints That Jesus Was Sick on the Cross

The Apostles Never Said, “By His Stripes You Were Healed” When They Preached Christ

If Christ Died for Our Sicknesses, Then His Atoning Work in This Aspect Is a Failure

The Greek Septuagint Translates Isaiah 53:4 as Saying That He Bore Our SINS

Isaiah’s Word for HEALED in Isaiah 53:5 Is Ambiguous

Isaiah 53:5 Only Refers to Spiritual Blessings

Gesenius’s Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon of the Old Testament Says That “Healed” in Isaiah 53:5 Means “Pardoned”

We Are Healed of Going Astray Like Sheep, Not Illnesses, in Isaiah’s Context

Jesus Bore Our Sins in His Body So That We Could Be Dead to Sins, Not So That We Could Be Physically Healed

Isaiah DID Refer to Actual Physical and Mental Illnesses and Distresses, but Not Necessarily to a Vicarious Bearing of Them, but to Sympathetic Bearing of the Troubles of This Life

We Are Healed by Jesus’ Stripes, Not by Jesus’ Stripes PLUS Our Faith

The Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53 Is Actually Israel, Not Jesus

Mark 16:18 Refers to SPIRITUAL Illnesses

Healing Is Not in the Context of the Entire Chapter in 1 Peter 2

Isaiah and Peter Meant That We Were Healed from Sin

Paul First Preached at Galatia Due to a Physical Infirmity

Paul Couldn’t Heal Himself in Galatia

Teaching That Jesus Healed as an Anointed Man Is Heresy Because It Denies His Deity

The Council of Constantinople in 553 Said That Anyone Teaching That Jesus Ministered as a Spirit-Anointed Man Must Be Anathema

Isaiah Foretold That Jesus Would Heal SOME People, Not Everyone

If Faith Healing Really Worked, Doctors and Hospitals Would No Longer Be Needed

Only GOD Can Call the Things That Be Not as Though They Were (Romans 4:17)

God Works All Things for Good (Romans 8:28); This Includes Sickness

The Doctrine of Faith Healing Sends Many to Early Graves Because They Don’t Take Medicine When They Need It

Some Children DIE Because Their “Faith Healing Cult” Parents Deny Them Medical Care

God Is in Control

Jesus Now Has ALL Authority, So If Satan Afflicts You, He Has to Get Jesus’ Permission First

God Has Satan on a Leash and Only Permits Him to Do Certain Things to You

Jesus Redeemed Us from Disease, But the Fulfillment of That Won’t Come Until We Get Glorified Bodies

Our Bodies Are Not Yet Redeemed, So We Are Still Subject to Sickness

God’s Kingdom Is “Already but Not Now” – What We Will Be Has Not Appeared (1 John 3:2) and Our Lowly Bodies Have Not Been Transformed (Philippians 3:20-21)

If We Are Subject to Death, We Are Subject to Sickness

Because We Are Still Capable of Sinning, We Must Be Subject to Sickness, an Effect of Sin

Pain Will Not Be Done Away With Until Heaven (Revelation 21:4)

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Proves That You Should Expect to Get Sicker as You Age

Bodily Suffering Helps You Avoid Sin (1 Peter 4:1)

If You Suffer More in This Life, You Get a Greater Reward in Heaven

Many Who Are “in Faith” for Their Healing Die Anyway

I Tried That Faith Stuff, and It Didn’t Work

TEMPORARY Relief in Healing Crusades Is Often Caused by a Release of Endorphins, Serotonin and Adrenaline

So-and-So Was “Healed of Cancer” But Now Has Cancer Again

People at Faith Churches Are Just as Sick as Everyone Else

Our Bodies Wear Out. Even Some Healing Ministers Wear Glasses!

There is No Office of “HEALING Evangelist” in the Bible

A Famous Faith Preacher Struggled with Kidney Stones

Groaning as Our Outward Man Perishes Is Part of This Life (2 Corinthians 4:16-5:4)

If God Wanted Us to Enjoy Perfect Health NOW, He Would Have Given Us Immortal Bodies

David Said That It Was GOOD That He Was Afflicted; So It Can Be with Us

We Should Be Grateful for Illness That Throws Us into the Arms of Jesus

So-and-So Had a Vision Where Jesus Said That a Relative Who Died in the Prime of Life Was Called Home by God and Had Finished His Course

Saying, “I Am Healed” When You Are Actually Sick Is Lying, and Therefore Sin

David was Honest Enough to Sing to God About His Sicknesses; We Should Pray “Honest” Prayers Like His Rather Than Saying We’re Healed When Our Bodies Say Otherwise

Laying Hands on the Sick is Not Part of the Great Commission

God Does Great Miracles Only During Crucial Times in History

The Lord Did Not Say That These Signs Would Follow Those Who Believe ALWAYS, So It Was Just to Get the Church Started

Not All of “Those Who Believe” Will Pick Up Snakes, So Not All of “Those Who Believe” Are Supposed to Lay Hands on the Sick and Have Them Recover (Mark 16:17-18)

Mark 16:17-18 Can’t Mean that All Believers Can Lay Hands on the Sick Because Not All Believers Did So in the Bible

Mark 16:18 Speaks Collectively – Only Those Who Actually Have Gifts of Healing Can Heal the Sick by Laying On of Hands

Acts 8 Proves That the Early Apostles Had Unique Powers

Luke 5:17 Says That the Power of the Lord Was Present to Heal Them, Proving That the Power to Heal Is Not Always Present

No One Today Has Apostolic Power Because a Prerequisite for Being an Apostle Is Having Walked with Jesus in Person (Acts 1:20-22)

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

Christ’s Command to HEAL THE SICK Stopped Before the Cross and Has Never Been Repeated Since Then, Even in Other New Testament Writings

The Greater Works Jesus Talked About Were Spiritual – Raising the Spiritually Dead to Life

Jesus Only Said That He Was Sent to Heal the Brokenhearted, Not the Sick

Jesus Withdrew Himself from Multitudes Who Wanted His Healing (Luke 5:15-16)

Jesus Was MADE SIN for Us. He Was Not MADE SICKNESS for Us.

Healing Will Not Be Available UNIVERSALLY Until the Millennium

If Hebrews 13:8 Really Means What Faith Healers Say It Does, Jesus Will Be Healing Us Forever in Heaven as He Did on the Earth

God Meets Your Spiritual Needs, Not Your Physical Needs

Sickness Can Be Proof of God’s Special Favor

You Shouldn’t Complain When God Punishes Your Sin

God Could Give Disease as a Prophetic Sign

Pain Is God’s Megaphone to Raise a Deaf World

Sickness Is One “Cross” We Must Bear

Sickness, While Unpleasant, Is Used by God to Build Character

God Uses Sickness to Draw Us Closer to Himself

The Lord Puts Us on Our Backs That He May Teach Us to Look Up

Our Sickness, Disease and Illnesses Keep Us Dependent upon God

God Is Far More Interested in Your Character Than in Your Comfort

God Gets Glory from Our Patient Endurance of Sickness

God Sometimes Has an Older Person Get Sick to Make That Person Want to Come Home to Heaven

God Uses Sickness to Remind Us That We Are Headed for a Better Place

God Uses So-and-So Powerfully Because She Was Paralyzed When She Was Young

God Only Heals Some at Healing Crusades, Thus Proving It Is Not His Will to Heal All

Jesus Did Only What He Saw the Father Do. He Only Saw the Father Heal ONE Person at the Pool of Bethesda.

Jesus Told a Greek Woman NO When She Came for Deliverance for Her Daughter

Jesus Himself Pointed Out That There Were Many Lepers in Israel in Elijah’s Day, Yet Only Naaman the Syrian Was Cleansed (Luke 4:27)

God Sometimes Heals You Only After He Has Let You Suffer a While (1 Peter 5:10)

Suffering Glorifies God (Romans 8:17)

You Are Called to Suffer (Philippians 1:29)

Jesus Suffered and That Is the Example for You to Follow (1 Peter 2:21)

Long Life Is Not a New Testament Blessing

James Said to Say, “If the Lord Will, We Shall Live.” This Proves That We Cannot Claim Long Life.

We Are Not Promised Tomorrow

Psalm 41:3 Proves That God Permits Sickness but Gives You Grace to Bear It

It Is Presumption to Think That Life and Death Are in Your Power

Jesus, Not the Devil, Now Has the Keys of Death, So HE Is the One Who Makes People Die Today

Healing Is a Side Issue That Does Not Deserve to Be Emphasized So Much

The Gospel Should Not Be Reduced to Physical Healing

We Need to Fulfill What Is Left of Christ’s Sufferings in the Earth (Colossians 1:24)

Vine’s Expository Dictionary Says That AFFLICTIONS in Colossians 1:24 Are “Afflictions of Christ from Which His Followers Must Not Shrink, Whether Sufferings of BODY or Mind”

We Should Expect, as Paul Did, to Always Bear Jesus’ Dying in Our Own Bodies (2 Corinthians 4:10)

Disease Viruses are Part of God’s Creation and Are Therefore Good, Even Though We Often Don’t Think So When We Catch Them

As Many Doctors Can Tell You, Many People Make Themselves Sick – It Has Nothing to Do with the Devil

To Preach That Jesus COULD NOT Do Miracles at Nazareth Is to Deny His Deity and God’s Sovereignty. Therefore, the Only Reason He Could Not Would Be That People Did Not Bring the Sick.

The Only Reason Jesus COULD NOT Do Miracles at Nazareth Is That They Drove Him Away Before He Could Do Anything

Mark 16:9-20 Was Not in Some Early Manuscripts

God’s Healing Covenant in the Law of Moses Was Only for the Jews

The New Testament Emphasizes Spiritual Blessings, Not Material Blessings

We Should Live for Eternity, Not for Temporal Blessings

Exodus 15:26 Only Applies to You If You Keep the Whole Law of Moses

Galatians 3:13 Means That Christ Redeemed Us from the Law, Which Was a Curse, Not the “Curse” in Deuteronomy 28

The Curse of the Law Was Given to Israel, Not to Us. We Cannot Be Redeemed from It Because We Were Never Under It.

Galatians 3:13’s “Curse” Speaks of Spiritual Death, Not Sickness or Poverty

Christ Did NOT Actually Bear the Deuteronomy 28:15-68 Curse Himself Because He Could Not Have “Borne” Our Mildew, Droughts, Bad Crops, Children Sent to Captivity, and Other Things Mentioned in That Curse

The Only Sense in Which Jesus Was Cursed Was That He Died a Cursed Death by Being Hung on a Cross

The Curse Was Corporate, Not Personal, So You Cannot Be Personally Redeemed from It

The Law’s Curse Pointed Only to Israel’s Corporate Exile

It Makes No Sense to Say That Jesus Bore Our Sins but Only ONE of Their Consequences (Sickness)

Lawbreakers Are Under “A” Curse (Damnation), not “THE” Curse in Deuteronomy 28

The Curse of the Law Was Not Curses (Plural) – It Was Simply That No One Could Keep the Whole Law

God Called Deuteronomy 28:15-68 CURSES in the Plural, So Galatians 3:13, Which Says That Christ Redeemed Us from THE Curse, Can’t Refer to Those

There Was Only One Curse (Singular) in Galatians 3:13, So Not Every Sickness Could Be a Curse

Jesus Could Not Literally Have BECOME SIN Because Sin Is a Thing, Not a Person

Jesus Was Not Really PUNISHED for Our Sins; He Just Shed Blood to Atone for Them

Christ Gave Himself for Our Sins, Not Our Sicknesses (Galatians 1:4)

Greats of Faith Were Stoned, Sawn Asunder, Slain, Destitute, Afflicted and Tormented. Therefore, We Can Be Too, Even If We Have Great Faith Like Theirs.

Hebrews 11:39 Proves That You Can Have Faith and NOT Receive the Promises

Faith Does Not Always Overcome – God Can Give Both OVERCOMING Faith and ENDURING Faith

God Manifests Himself as Healer to Some and as Comforter to Others

We Know That God Did Not Heal Paul, Because He Said That He Bore Marks in His Body (Galatians 6:17)

God Heals in His Own Way in His Own Time

Jesus Literally Said to “Keep On Asking.” Therefore, We Should Bug God Like the Widow in Jesus’ Parable.

Sometimes God Bears Long Before He Answers His People’s Prayers, Though They Cry Day and Night (Luke 18:7)

Paul Said That the Entire Creation (Which Includes YOU) Groans and Travails in PAIN (Romans 8:22)

The Context of I SHALL NOT DIE, BUT LIVE (Psalm 118:17) Is Military Protection, Not Healing from Disease

We Cannot Say That We Can Do the Acts That the Apostles Did, Because We Cannot Write Scripture, and They Did

God Works in Mysterious Ways, His Wonders to Perform. We’ll Never Know Why God Lets Some People Stay Sick.

You Never Know What God Will Do

Everything Happens for a Reason

Many Are the Afflictions of the Righteous

Just as We Will Never Have Victory over Sin in This Life, We Will Never Have Victory over Sickness

We Are Promised Tribulation in This World

It Is Unbalanced to Teach That Life’s Problems Are Due to a Lack of Faith

We Are Supposed to Glory in Tribulations and Count Them All Joy (Romans 5:3, James 1:2-4)

My Trials Only Come to Make Me Strong

The Crosses in Life Must Precede the Crowns

If God ALLOWS Sickness, He Must Have a Purpose for It

God ALLOWS Sickness, But Never More Than He Gives You Grace to Endure

God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle to Make Us, Like Paul, Rely on Him, Not on Ourselves (2 Corinthians 1:8-10)

God Gives and Takes Away

Sometimes God Wants You to Be Afflicted So That You Can Empathize, Not Just Sympathize, with Others Who Are Afflicted

The Lord Allows Testing So We Can Be a Comfort to Others Later (2 Corinthians 1:4-6)

You Should Not Try to Hurry out of Trials (Like Sickness), Because They Are More Precious Than Gold (1 Peter 1:7)

God Sometimes Withholds Healing to Test Your Faith

It Rains on the Just as Well as the Unjust (Matthew 5:45)

We Should Never Teach That Jesus Was Cursed Because No One Speaking by the Holy Spirit Can Call Jesus Cursed (1 Corinthians 12:3)

God Creates Dumb, Deaf and Blind People (Exodus 4:11)

The LORD Stopped Sarah from Having Children (Genesis 16:2)

God Afflicted Jacob with a Hip Problem (Genesis 32:25, 31)

You Can’t Say that God Never Puts Sickness on the Righteous. He Killed David’s Child.

Rather Than Claiming Healing, We Should Just Have “the Faith of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego”

Faith Is Believing God Can Do Anything, but Trusting Him Even If He Doesn’t

We Should, Like Paul, Learn to Be Content in Every Situation

We Are Supposed to Thank God for Everything, Which Would Include Sickness (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

We Should Praise God When in Physical Agony

Lazarus Was Sick for the Glory of God (John 11:4)

Lazarus’s Faith Could Not Have Raised Him from the Dead

God Does Not Heal All Because He Didn’t Heal Isaac or Jacob of Bad Eyesight

Throughout Scripture God Heals Those Whom He CHOOSES to Heal

God Has Mercy upon Whom He Wills (Romans 9:15)

God Creates Both the Day of Prosperity and the Day of Adversity (Ecclesiastes 7:14)

Jesus Bore Our Griefs and Sorrows, Not Our Sicknesses and Pains, on the Cross

The Healing Part of Isaiah 53 Does Not Refer to the Atonement

If Healing Is in Christ’s Atonement, Sick People Must Be Unsaved

We Don’t Have to Keep Getting Saved the Way We Have to Keep Getting Healed, So Healing Can’t Be in the Atonement

Old Testament Animal Sacrifices Were Never Made Sick

ALL Who Come to Christ for the New Birth Receive It, But Not All Who Come for Healing Receive It

Healing Is a Secondary Benefit of the Atonement, Not a Primary One

We Should Just Preach the Gospel, Not Healing

Atonement Means Cancelation of Guilt, So by Definition, Healing Cannot Be “in” the Atonement

Christ’s Sin-Bearing Is Repeated Throughout the New Testament, but Healing Is Almost Never Mentioned with It. If Healing Were in the Atonement, It Would Be Mentioned Consistently.

If Healing Were in the Atonement, Anyone Who Got Saved Would Be Healed Instantly

Healing Is in the Atonement, But It Is up to God How to Dispense It

Faith Teachers Teach a Potential Atonement, Not One Christians Already Enjoy

Jeremiah 17:9 Literally Means That the Heart Is SICK, So Jesus Came to Heal the Sickness in Our Hearts, Not in Our Bodies

Jesus Could Not Have Borne Both Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia on the Cross

Jesus Could Not Have Borne Female-Specific Illnesses in His Own Body on the Cross

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

Jesus Could Not Have Borne Broken Bones on the Cross Because Not One of His Bones Was Broken (John 19:36)

Old Testament Sacrifices Were NOT Made Sick Before They Died, But They Still Covered Sins

We Cannot Expect to Heal as Jesus Did Because We Are Not the Son of God

We Cannot Heal as Jesus Did Because He Had the Spirit Without Measure, While We Have the Spirit Given by Measure

1 Corinthians 12:10 Says That Today Only SOME Receive Dunamis (Power)

Teaching That YOU Can Heal Is Heresy That Deifies You – Only GOD Can Heal

Christ’s Healings Were Mostly Instantaneous; We Cannot Claim to Be Able to Do His Works When We Have So Few Instantaneous Miracles

John 14:12 Does Not Mean That We Can Heal as Jesus Did Because NO ONE Has Ever Duplicated His Ministry

Jesus Never Failed to Heal Anyone but No One Today Has His Perfect Track Record

John 14:12 in the Greek Is Collective – We Collectively Do His Works But No One Person Will Do Them

The Greater Works in John 14:12 Refer to Getting People Born Again, Not Miracles

The Greater Works in John 14:12 Refer to Reaching More People Through Mass Media

Christ’s Disciples Were Told to Heal EVERYONE. No One Does This Today, So We Cannot Say We Have the Same Authority They Did.

THIS MOUNTAIN in Mark 11:23 Refers to the Temple Mountain and Symbolically the Jewish Worship System

If We Really Had Authority over Sickness, We Would Not Need GIFTS OF HEALINGS

Only Some Receive GIFTS OF HEALING; This Proves That Healing Is a Gift Bestowed as God Wills

Only Those with Gifts of Healings Receive the TEMPORARY Right to Speak Directly to an Illness

Healing is a GIFT (1 Corinthians 12:28), Proving That It Is Not Earned by Our Works or Our Faith, Which Would Be Pelagianism

Gifts of Healings Can Refer to Extraordinary Medical Skill

Getting “Healed by Faith” Is Too Difficult

Mark 16:18 Does Not Say, “They Shall Recover IF They Have Enough Faith,” Yet Faith Healers Blame the Sick for Not Believing

Mental Illness Is Treatable but Not Curable

Preaching Divine Healing Shipwrecks the Faith of Many

Jesus Turned Down Requests to Stay and Heal More

It’s Not Always God’s Will to Heal – He Didn’t Heal Many at Nazareth

Some “Faith Healers” Have Been Exposed as Greedy Charlatans

Faith Preachers Are Extravagant-Living Money-Grubbers

We Should Avoid Faith Teachers Who Live in Mansions Who Suppose That Godliness Is a Means of Gain

Faith Healers Connect Financial Offerings with Healing

Some Healing Ministers Are Glitzy, Dramatic Showmen, Not Humble Servants

Some “Faith Healers” Have Gone to Doctors and Demanded Secrecy, Then Denounced Doctors While Preaching

Some Healing Ministers and Their Families Have Gotten Sick

I've Seen “Healing Ministers” Push People Down and It Was No More God Than It Was Santa Claus

People Falling Down in Meetings Is a Clear Sign of DEMON POWER at Work

I Saw Laughter Break Out in a Healing Service, and That Isn’t One of the Nine Ways the Holy Spirit Moves According to 1 Corinthians 12

If Faith Healers Were Real, They Would Heal People with Birth Defects. Instead, They Tell Such People Not to Come Up and Instruct the Cameramen Not to Show the Sections with Such People.

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

Faith Healers Use Hypnosis and Psychological Techniques to Get People Healed

Faith Preachers Pronounce Mean Divine Judgments on Those Who Disagree

Faith Healers Take Credit for Cures of Things That Would Have Gone Away on Their Own Anyway

“Faith Healers” Call Attention to Man and Thus Rob the Lord of Due Glory

If Faith Healers Were Real, One Would Have Won a Million-Dollar Prize Offered by a Renowned Skeptic for Proof of Supernatural Ability

Unlike Faith Healers, Jesus Took People Aside to Heal Them

There Is No Evidence That the Churches to Which the Apostles Wrote Ever Had Healing Meetings

The Day of The Healing Evangelist Is Over – ALL Christians Should Heal

The Signs of an Apostle Do Not Refer to Signs, Wonders and Mighty Deeds but Rather to Suffering or Perseverance

The Bible Does Not Instruct Us to Hold Healing Crusades

Healing and Miracle-Related Words Are Mostly in the Gospels and Acts, Not After Them

Miracles Are Mentioned Less as the Date of New Testament Books Gets Later

The Church Outgrew Spiritual Gifts and Now Walks in Love, Which Is a More Excellent Way (1 Corinthians 12:31)

Hebrews 2:3-4 Puts Signs and Wonders in the Past Tense, Showing That They Had Ceased Before Hebrews Was Written

Paul Didn’t Mention Any Spiritual Gifts to Timothy and Titus When Discussing Church Matters. The Reason for This Is the Miraculous Gifts Weren’t Even Something to Talk About at That Time.

Earlier Lists of Spiritual Gifts Contain Miraculous Gifts, While the Later Ones Do Not

The Church Was Built upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets (Ephesians 3:20). The Foundation Has Been Laid, So There Are No More Apostles and Prophets.

Apostles and Prophets Were to Give Revelation. Now That the New Testament Is Complete, They Are No Longer Needed.

No Gospel of Healing Is Mentioned in the Bible, So It Isn’t Emphasized

So-and-So Who Preaches Healing Got His Doctrine from So-and-So, Who Got His Doctrine from So-and-So, Who Was into Cult Theology

Divine Healing Is Practiced by False Cults

The “Word of Faith” Movement Is a Cult

The Health and Wealth Gospel Is Unbiblical Because It’s All About YOU

The Faith Confession Movement Tends Strongly to Emphasize God’s Faithfulness at the Expense of God’s Freedom

The Words “Positive Confession” Are Never Found Together in the Bible

If Proverbs 18:21 Meant What Faith Preachers Say It Does, Old Testament People Could Have Gone Around Speaking Health to the Sick and Death to Cancer and Other Diseases Before Jesus Came

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

This Teaching Encourages People to Have Faith in Their Faith Instead of Faith in God, and Is Therefore Cultish

The Presence of Prominent Female Leaders Has Always Identified Cultic Movements

Faith Preachers Are Trinity-Denying Heretics Because They Teach That Jesus Died Spiritually

Faith Preachers Embrace Mormon-Like Teaching That We Can Become Gods, or Are “Little Gods” Already, So They Are Evil Cultists

“Divine” Healings Today Are the Prophesied Lying Signs and Wonders of the Antichrist

Divine Healing Teaching is Gnosticism Because It Presumes That Special Secret Knowledge Is Needed to Be Healed

Word of Faith People Base Their Doctrines on Famous Preachers’ Visions and Revelations, Not the Bible

Most of the Highly-Regarded Word of Faith Teachers Have Not Been to a Legitimate Seminary

Some Faith Teachers Have Seen the Light and Backed Off from Faith Teaching

Word of Faith Teachers Don’t Believe Psalm 91 – They Have Bodyguards

Wesley Said, “Whatever Is True Is Not New, and Whatever Is New Is Not True.” Nobody Believed That Healing Was in the Atonement Until Recently, So It Is Not True.

The Only Signs and Wonders Predicted in These Last Days Are the Lying Signs and Miracles of the Antichrist

Scripture Does Not Foretell a Revival of Miracle Sign Gifts in the Churches in the Last Days

Jesus Said That Those Who Came After Him and Did Miracles Would Be Unsaved Deceivers (Matthew 7:22-23)

Faith People Sometimes Say They’re Healed but Just Have Symptoms. What Good Is It to Be Healed If You Still Have Symptoms?

Teaching Grace Gives People a License to Sin

Faith Is a Gift from God (Ephesians 2:8), So You Can’t Believe Unless God Gives You the Faith to Do It

You Can’t Build Up Faith Yourself Because It Is a Gift from God

Faith Is a Gift from God, Not Something You Work Up Yourself

To Demand That God Use Supernatural Instead of Natural Means to Heal You Is to Hold God Hostage

God Wants You to Bring SUPPLICATIONS and REQUESTS to HIM (Philippians 4:6), Not to “Take Authority” Yourself

God Is Not a Vending Machine

Faith Teaching Reduces a Personal God to a Set of Formulas

You Have No More Right to Demand Healing Now Than to Demand Your Resurrection Body Now

You Lost All Your “Rights” the Day You Accepted Christ

Some People Have Been “Healed” in Crusades of Illnesses That Were Purely Psychosomatic Anyway

“Faith Healing” Is Simply Mind over Matter. Unbelievers Can and Do Get Healed Just by Having a Positive Mental Attitude, and It Has Nothing to Do with Jesus.

Medical Studies Have Proven That Faith Healing Works by the Placebo Effect

Controlled Medical Studies Demonstrate No Consistent Healing Effect from Prayer Alone

Faith Is Simply Trust in God, Not a Force That You Use to Change Things Yourself

Faith Must Be IN GOD (Mark 11:22), So It Is Not Something You Can Use Yourself to Change Things

Mark 11:23 Is Just an Expansion of Mark 11:22 About Trusting IN GOD

Faith Literally Means Belief or Trust; It Does Not “Do” Anything

Occult Practitioners Attempt to Confess Things into Existence and Speak to Material Things to Make Them Change

To Say that You Received Your Healing by Your Faith Glorifies You Instead of God

Saying That Faith Does Things Depersonalizes the Transaction by Leaving God Out

In the Lord’s Prayer, We Are Supposed to ASK GOD to Deliver Us from Evil, not “Claim” Deliverance from It

We Should Use Our Faith for Souls Rather Than Selfishly Seeking Our Own Healing

You Imply That If Anyone Is Sick, He Is in Sin

The Doctrine of Faith Healing Puts the Sick Under Condemnation

Faith Teaching Negates Compassion on the Sufferer; We're Taught Instead to Blame the Person for Not Having Enough Faith

The Doctrine of Faith Healing Is Cruel to Parents Who Have Lost Children to Illness

We Had 24/7 Prayer Asking God to Heal So-And-So and He Chose Not to Do It

You Can Have Greater Peace by Accepting Your Illness Than by Struggling to Get Healed

Belief in God’s Sovereignty over Sickness and Suffering Has Proven a Tremendous Comfort to Countless Christians Through the Ages

God Told Hezekiah to Use Medicine (a Poultice of Figs)

Elisha Did Miracles, Yet Died of an Illness

Epaphroditus Worked Closely with Paul, Yet Was Sick unto Death

Stephen Was Full of Faith and Power, but Died Anyway

Daniel Got a Vision from God and Immediately Fainted and Got Sick

“The Acts of the Apostles” Does Not Show Rank-and-File People Doing Miracles

Jonah Was Brought to the Point of Death So That He Would Learn Obedience

God May Want You to Get Sicker So That When You Get Healed, It Will Be a Major Miracle That Will Get Everyone’s Attention

The Word YOU in 3 John 2 Is Singular, Proving That It Was Only for Gaius, Not for the Whole Church

Faith Teachers Tell Us to Heal the Sick, Not Pray for Them, but John Prayed That Gaius Would Be Healthy (3 John 2)

Psalm 103:3 Is a Parallelism for Forgiven Sins and Does Not Mean That God Heals All Physical Diseases

The Word for HEALETH in Psalm 103:3 Means to Heal the SOUL

Psalm 103:3 Is Poetic Hyperbole

Psalm 103:3 Refers to Eternity

David Didn’t Have His Youth Renewed – He Had to Have Abishag Keep Him Warm

David Spoke in Hyperbole – He Was Never Superman Who Could Literally Run Through a Troop and Leap over a Wall

Romans 8:10 Tells You That Your Body Is Dead Because of Sin

Romans 8:11 Refers to the Resurrection, Not This Life

Romans 8 Doesn’t Talk About Healing, so Romans 8:11 Is About Strengthening Us Against Sin

Romans 8:11 Uses a Word for Resurrection That Cannot Take Place Until We Get Our New Bodies

1 John 3:8 in Context Refers to SIN, not SICKNESS

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Is About Avoiding Fornication and Should Not Be Used as a Healing Proof-Text

John 14:12 Was Fulfilled in the Ministry of the Apostles

There WERE Feeble People Among Israel’s Tribes (Deuteronomy 25:17-18), So We Cannot Use Psalm 105:37 to Claim That None Should Be Feeble Today

If Everyone Could Perform Miracles, Paul’s Signs of an Apostle Would Be Meaningless – He’d Be Just Like Everyone Else

If ALL Could Perform Miracles, Christians Would Not Have Summoned Peter to Raise Dorcas from the Dead

Anointing with Oil in James Is Intended to Be Medicinal

James Set Patient Endurance of Sickness as the New Testament Standard for Believers (James 5:10-11)

Elders Should Anoint the Sick with Oil but Leave the Results to Our Sovereign God

James’s Command About What to Do with the Sick Proves That We CAN Get Sick

James’s Command Makes It Clear That We Should Expect to Be Sick, Then Healed, Then Sick, Then Healed, Not Always Healthy

James 5 in Context Speaks of a Believer Who Has Sinned and Spiritual Healing

The Word HEALED in James 5:16 Clearly Refers to SOULISH Healing

Faith Teachers Say to HEAL the Sick, but James Said to PRAY for Them

James’s Command Was for the Dispersed Jews, Not All Christians Throughout Time

James Said That the Prayer of Faith Would SAVE the Sick, Not HEAL the Sick

James Said to Call for the Elders (a Private Situation), Not to Go to a Public Healing Meeting

James Did Not Teach That Healing Was in the Atonement in His Instructions

If Healing Were in the Atonement, James Would Not Have Said to Call for the Elders Because You Could Get Healed Without Them

The “Raising Up” of James 5:15 Is Not Necessarily Physical

If You Were Already Healed (Past Tense), It Would Make No Sense to Call for the Elders to GET Healing

Jesus Said It Is Better to Enter Heaven with One Eye or Hand Than to Go to Hell

“Claiming” Your Healing Is an Arrogant Attempt to Twist God’s Arm

It is Humbler to Ask for Grace Than to “Claim Your Rights”

Saying That Healing Depends on You Creates a New Gospel of Works

We Need BALANCED Teaching on Healing, Not Oversimplifications

Healing Evangelists Are Unbalanced Because They Talk About Healing All the Time When There Is So Much Else in the Bible

Sometimes God Wants You to Witness to Someone in the Hospital

God Sometimes Leads Faithful Saints into “Wilderness Experiences”

God Uses Sickness to “Break” Us

Jesus Let People Fail to Remind Them How Much They Needed Him

God Can Lead Others to Salvation Through the Pain and Death of a Saint

Terminal Illness Can Be a Gift from God

God Sometimes Calls a Saint Home Early Because He Knows People Will Get Saved at the Funeral

God Sometimes Heals Crybaby Christians Who Bug Him Enough Just as He Gave Israel a King When They Kept Bugging Him – Even Though It Wasn’t His Perfect Will

Sometimes God Has to Heal Someone When a Healing Evangelist Makes a Bold Claim Just to Stop People in the Audience from Backsliding or Getting Confused

Only Some People Have the “Gift of Faith” to Believe for Healing

Today Doctors Have Replaced the Ancient Practice of Faith Healing

Pain is Part of the Healing Process, Not Something That Is Necessarily Bad

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

Sometimes God’s Path for Your Healing Is Through a Doctor Rather Than the Supernatural

Paul Did Not Believe in Faith Healing Because He Had a Doctor (Luke) Accompany Him

Luke Was a Physician; He Didn't Give Up His Vocation to Lay Hands on People

Epaphroditus Was Healed by God’s MERCY, Not His OBLIGATION

God Creates Evil (Isaiah 45:7), Kills, and Wounds (Deuteronomy 32:39)

The Lord Kills, Brings Down to the Grave, and Makes Poor (1 Samuel 2:6-7)

God Created the Destroyer to Destroy (Isaiah 54:16), So Satan Is Just Doing the Job That God Created Him to Do

We Should Not Complain When Evil Proceeds from the Mouth of the Lord Because of Our Sins (Lamentations 3:38-39)

God Being “Good” Must Not Be Understood from Man’s Perspective

People Only HOPED Peter’s Shadow Would Heal Them, But There Is No Record that His Shadow Healed Anyone

Demons Were Only a Superstitious Way of Explaining Illness Long Ago

God Clearly SENT Plagues in the Old Testament. We Cannot Say that God Never Makes People Sick, Because He Obviously Did.

God Uses Sickness to Stop Saints from Being in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

Sometimes God Withholds Healing in His Love Because He Knows That If a Person Were Instantly Healed, He Would Backslide

Like Any Loving Parent, God Sometimes Has to Tell His Children NO for Their Own Good

Sometimes God Says, “Yes,” Sometimes He Says, “No,” and Sometimes He Says, “Wait” When You Ask for Healing

Sometimes God Puts Mature Believers Through the Fire of Unanswered Prayer to Help Them Mature Even More

I Asked God to Make My Handicapped Child Whole, and God Said, “No.”

I Got a Debilitating Illness and Cried, “Why Me?” And the Lord Answered, “Why NOT You?”

God Sometimes Withholds What We Request Because He Knows What’s Best for Us

If Healing Were Really Based 100% on Grace, Everyone Would Be Healed

God Can and Did “Play Favorites” with Healing; Jesus Was Only Sent to the Jews, and Gentiles Were Excluded from God’s Healing Covenant

We Should Not Take Up God’s Time with Petty Healing Needs When So Many Others Have Far More Serious Problems

It May Not Be God’s Will to Heal Every Little Issue – God Heals Sicknesses and Diseases but Not Every Defect

The Choicest Saints on Earth Are Suffering Shut-Ins

If God Could Even Refuse to Answer Jesus’ Prayer (Matthew 26:39, 42), He Can Refuse to Answer Yours

Before We Pray for a Healing in Faith, We Must Pray to See If It Is God’s Will in This Case

Here Are Some Wonderful Testimonies of People Who Were Healed After Submitting to God’s Sovereign Will Without Demanding That He Heal Them

You Must Let GOD Choose When to Grant Power to Heal the Sick

God Only Answers Prayer When You Ask Something That Is His Will

Jesus Said to Say, “Thy Will Be Done,” Instead of Demanding Healing

We Should Pray for Others in Faith, Expecting That God Will Heal Them, Then Leave the Matter in God’s Hands

“If It Be Your Will” Must Always Be Implied – If You Could Literally Ask for ANYTHING, You Could Ask to Become God

Since God Allows Persecution, Which Can CAUSE Sickness, He Allows Sickness

If God Willed the Suffering and Death of His Own Son, He Can Will Suffering and Sickness for His Son’s Followers

“Prayer Cloths” Are Unscriptural Because the Only People Healed Touched Garments That Paul Wore

God Has Never Healed an Amputee

The Mere Fact That There Are So Many Objections to Divine Healing Shows How Flimsy That Doctrine Is

Any Other Objection Not Specifically Covered in This Book