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

The objector may or may not have any proof that these events actually happened, but let’s assume for the sake of discussion that they did.  I don’t know any healing preachers myself who have ever demanded secrecy at a hospital or denounced doctors while preaching.  I know one healing preacher who was made an OFFER of secrecy at an Emergency Room, but he said that it was unnecessary.  Perhaps that was because other preachers who were there before him wanted some kind of “Hospital-Gate” cover-up.

I for one would not hide it if I went to a doctor, and I never denounce doctors while preaching (or while not preaching, for that matter).  If it weren’t for doctors, I would have died in the third grade of a serious lung problem, long before I ever knew about Jesus and the New Covenant’s inclusion of healing.  I am glad that doctors are available.  MANY other Christians are still alive today because of them.

The objector is taking some true events (we assume) and attempting to “project” them onto all divine healing preachers as if we all have things to hide and hate doctors.  That isn’t fair.  It would be like me stating that ALL people who write books against divine healing personally attack healing preachers by name in a rather nasty manner.  While that actually is the case (in my opinion) with this particular gentleman’s book, that does not mean that anyone who is against divine healing is nasty and attacks and defames people personally in an effort to stop their particular ministries.

The presence of one bad apple in a bushel doesn’t mean that all the rest of them are rotten too.

I don’t approve of the behavior above and I don’t engage in it.  So I, at least, am exempt from this objection, and so is this book, which is not against doctors either.