Big Healing Book - The Doctrine of Faith Healing Sends Many to Early Graves Because

Objection: The Doctrine of Faith Healing Sends Many to Early Graves Because They Don’t Take Medicine When They Need It

Wrong. The doctrine of faith healing keeps people out of early graves! Lack of wisdom sends people to their graves prematurely. Failure to use common sense sends people to their graves prematurely. Nothing is wrong with the doctrine of faith healing or any other doctrine presented in the Bible.

Let your doctor tell you when you don’t need to take your medicine anymore. You don’t need to be afraid of going to the doctor. He can verify that you are healed. If you fear that he’ll find out that you’re not healed, you’re not really in faith to begin with. It’s pointless to fear going to the doctor. He is on God’s side, after all, when it comes to your healing – he’s for it. You just have to ignore any of his statements that nothing can be done, because you know a higher law than the physical laws on which earthly medicine is based.

You can’t even stop taking medicine based on feelings. For example, if you have high blood pressure, you may not “feel” like you need to take medicine. You may have no good way of knowing whether or not if you need the medicine without medical evidence. You could stop taking the medication, feel fine for a while, and then have a heart attack because it turns out that you weren’t in faith for your healing. If the doctor prescribed the medicine, let HIM un-prescribe the medicine when he sees that you are healed.

The fact is that people have died, saying that they were “in faith” (obviously, they were not) and therefore they would not take their medicine because “by Jesus’ stripes, they were healed.” The press loves to latch onto these cases and parade them to make sure that we all know how “evil” the doctrine of faith healing is. Now and then, a scare book or scare story comes out about parents who lost a child because they believed “faith teachers.” This is supposed to make the rest of us avoid faith teaching and avoid believing in healing. These people never understood faith or healing in the first place. The proof is that they distorted the teachings they heard to say that “faith teachers” are against doctors, which good ones are not. The prominent faith teachers of our day are unanimous in their support of the use of doctors when necessary. This was not true in earlier days, but doctors weren’t as proficient back then either. If the people in the scare book were that careless in hearing what today’s teachers say about doctors, it should come as no surprise that they messed up what they heard about faith and healing.

Yeah, but what about the people who believe all the right things and die anyway? Paul talked about some such people in Corinth, and the Mistakes to Avoid section of this book shows that you can believe the right things about divine healing but not be healed for completely different reasons that have nothing to do with your healing doctrine.

Throwing your medicine away does absolutely nothing to promote your healing. You are either in faith or you are not. Throwing away medicine does not twist God’s arm and make Him heal you. It does not necessarily honor Him, either. If you get healed, it will be because you believed God, not because you did or did not throw away your medicine.

I am aware that a famous faith preacher long ago told everyone it was a sin to go to a doctor. I do not share his disdain for doctors, though certainly at this writing he was involved in MANY more healing miracles than I have seen. I have his collected works, and in general they are a blessing. However, I cannot follow him in his doctrine that going to the doctor is anti-faith and therefore sin. Fortunately, his still-active ministry organization today does not share his hardline approach about medicine being sinful.

A related objection that didn’t seem worthy of its own section because it’s pretty much the same thing goes like this: “Some treatable people go to a healing meeting rather than to the doctor, and by the time they DO go to the doctor, it’s too late and they die.” The same kinds of comments above would apply.

If we could get it through to people that God has no problem at all with the act of going to a doctor, they would not do stupid things and die while learning faith. I hope that I have gotten that message through to you.