Objection: 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

The idea here is that it wasn’t God’s will to heal someone, but then a healing evangelist made a bold proclamation to a sick person, “BE HEALED NOW!” or something similar.  Now if the person doesn’t get healed, people will get confused and possibly backslide and question their Christianity, so for the sake of the people, God goes ahead and does the healing anyway for their sakes.

The very premise here that it was NOT God’s will to heal someone is entirely flawed, as the rest of this book should demonstrate amply.  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8), so His will to have everyone be in perfect health must always apply yesterday, today and forever.

The objector presents a God who tries to defend His own honor even though His will has supposedly been violated.  This is completely contrary to the Bible reasons why Jesus healed the multitudes.  He was not moved with the need to defend His honor – He was moved with compassion.  The objector’s line of thinking is that our Lord was NOT moved by compassion, but rather by the need to defend His reputation among the people.  That is a horrible representation of our Lord, who DELIGHTS in mercy (Micah 7:18)!

When it comes down to it, this kind of objection is a last-ditch effort by someone who is predisposed to the idea that healing is not God’s will for all, after that person is confronted by an undeniable miracle.  Rather than risk the Pharisees’ “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” by attributing the healing to the devil out of jealousy, this objection provides a way to still allow that GOD did the healing, while preserving the idea that it still WASN’T His will.

If this ridiculous notion were true, I would probably command everyone at a healing rally to be healed, whether they were ready to receive anything or not, so that God would have to defend His honor by healing them anyway without regard to their faith.  That way, everyone would get healed!  But that isn’t how things work.

NOTHING in Scripture even remotely suggests that God would heal someone for the reason stated in the objection.  Any objection that cannot be backed with Scripture should be tossed into the dumpster immediately.