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

Anyone who believes this belies his own objection when he goes to the doctor!  If only GOD can heal, going to a doctor is useless – you would have to go only to God, who alone can heal.  Yet some of these objectors claim that divine healing has passed away and that today, God only uses doctors.  How pitifully inconsistent!

I can hear them now, “All healing comes ultimately from God, so if a doctor cures you, God still gets the glory because He used that doctor.”  Well, why not be consistent for a change and allow that we could say, “All healing comes ultimately from God, so if a Christian cures you, God still gets the glory because He used that Christian.”

If only God can heal, teaching doctors to heal people for years in universities is heresy that deifies them.  We can throw this same argument back at the objector.  The doctor does not have to be God to give you natural medicine to heal you.  The Christian does not have to be God to minister supernatural healing in the name of Jesus.  We certainly make no claim to deity – the three positions of the Trinity are filled and there will never be any openings there.

I think what irks those with this objection is the idea that WE heal people in the name of Jesus.  Yet that is exactly what Scripture teaches.  It does not say that GOD heals when we ask Him to heal.  Asking Him to heal is inconsistent with Scripture anyway.  Scripture says that WE heal the sick.  I know that this is a hard statement for people from traditional backgrounds to follow, but I can absolutely back it up with a lot of Scripture.  And I did so in my article YOU Can Do Miracles, so rather than duplicate the proofs cited there, I’ll refer you to that article for the sake of space.