Objection: The Context of Isaiah 53:5 Is That We Are Healed of Our Transgressions and Iniquities

The objector appeals to context, so let’s read Isaiah 53:5 in context with the previous verse.

Isaiah 53:4-5:
Surely he hath borne our griefs [literally sicknesses], and carried our sorrows [literally pains]: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

What Isaiah says here should be clear – Jesus was stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, bruised and chastised with stripes laid on Him (these all refer to physical punishment) for our transgressions and iniquities.  Because of what He did, we are healed.  We do not have to bear the physical punishment for sin that He took already in His own body as our substitute.

One would deliberately have to yank “we are healed” out of context to reach any other conclusion.

Besides that, the claim that sins (transgressions, iniquities) can be “healed” is not a biblical concept.   Sins don’t need to be healed; they need to be forgiven!  When the apostles preached Christ, they didn’t tell people that through Jesus there was healing for sins – they told them that through Jesus there was forgiveness for sins.  This was consistent with Jesus’ own command that repentance and remission of sins (not healing of sins) be preached everywhere in His name (Luke 24:47).

I have no idea what the objector had in mind when he spoke of sins getting “healed.”  What exactly happens to a sin after it gets “healed?”  Is the healed version of sin not as sinful anymore, or what?  Thank God, the New Testament does NOT teach that sins are healed!  If it did, you’d still have them, but they’d be the healed versions.  No, in the New Testament, your sins are washed away when you call on Jesus.  They aren’t healed at that point – they’re GONE!