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

The first sentence of this objection is true – people SOMETIMES are healed based on someone else’s faith, though this is neither the rule nor the best way to be healed.  However, you cannot “believe for” someone else’s salvation – every individual must receive the Lord Jesus as an act of his own will.

The second sentence fails to make a distinction between Jesus’ STRIPES and Jesus’ bloodshed on the cross.  The Bible never says, “by whose cross you were healed” or even “by whose blood you were healed.”  Healing was purchased because of the physical suffering Jesus endured starting with the Roman whipping post, not the cross.  He was already too infirm and feeble to carry His own cross before He was ever nailed to it.  So neither the Bible nor knowledgeable healing teachers would try to claim that salvation from sin and physical healing were purchased in exactly the same way.  The objector makes the mistaken assumption that preachers of divine healing claim that forgiveness and physical healing were provided in exactly the same way on the cross.  Because the assumption is mistaken, any conclusions from that wrong assumption may be thrown out as well.