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

Agreed!  So rejoice with the person who got healed instead of being a pickle-puss about it!  Who cares what the cause is?  If the person is healed through Jesus Christ, thank God for it.  Jesus is the Healer of the total person, not just the body.

Of course, the point of this objection is that the people in question could have been healed without Jesus Christ if they simply made some mental adjustments.  Therefore, they could have just as easily been healed through therapy.  To some extent, this is correct, although that would not justify going to an antichrist group for healing.  Some diseases are unmistakably linked to mental problems, and perhaps a psychologist would have helped them get rid of it.  But in the service, it was Jesus, not a mental doctor, who set them free, so He should get the glory for it.  Jesus and His anointing can do more for you in five seconds than a well-trained doctor might be able to do in five years, and Jesus won’t charge you a huge fee for doing it!

Medical science seems to think that the link between the mind and the body is some great modern discovery.  It’s actually old news.  The Bible contains many statements along these lines.  (For example, the fact that a merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones – Proverbs 17:22.)  Some people literally get sick because of their bitterness and unforgiveness.  Once they repent of these sins (yes, they’re sins, regardless of what others did to poor little them), they can be healed.

The real bottom line of the objector is that the healings are not “real” and can be duplicated without Jesus Christ.  This may or may not be true in some cases, but try explaining people getting raised from the dead.  You aren’t going to “psych” a dead person back to life, are you?  Too many healings can be explained as nothing other than a miracle performed by the resurrected Christ through his Church.  The cases recorded in Scripture are like that.  Even if a doctor might have helped some of them, Jesus did not use psychology or natural medical knowledge to help people – He used the anointing that He had from God!  How many psychologists are prepared to cast out a demon?  Yet if they don’t, they will never solve a demonized person’s problem.  The people in Jesus’ day surely sought medical help, too.  If they had been cured by other means, they would not have needed Jesus to heal them.

At any rate, we preachers do not use psychology to bring healing to people, even if their ailments may be caused or prolonged by mental issues such as a desire for sympathy or attention, which happens more than people might think.  God did not send a psychologist to heal them – He sent His Word!  Likewise, we preach the Word, not modern psychology.

By the way, I am not dismissing the fact that some people COULD benefit from psychological counseling, nor am I saying that all psychological counselors are of the devil.  However, a lot of modern psychology IS godless – you even have godless “doctors” suggesting gender-change operations.  I am just saying that people could benefit a lot MORE by having an encounter with the healing Jesus of the Bible.  A nonbeliever could benefit health-wise by going to a secular smoking-cessation group.  However, Jesus can and has set people free from tobacco habits instantly without the use of a secular group.  Some people who practice the sin of alcoholism might benefit from an accountability group (as long as they don’t believe certain Alcoholics Anonymous lies).  But they could also get set free instantly by the Lord Jesus Christ, which is far better.