Healing

“Jesus is the Great Physician”

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Is it true? No.

Shocked? But doesn’t the Bible say he is? No, Jesus quoted mockers who had no faith in Capernaum, who would taunt him with a local proverb, “Physician heal thyself.”

Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’” Luke 4:23.

Jesus didn’t use medicine to heal people—he used supernatural power! Even in the advanced medicine of the twenty-first century, physicians admit, “Medicine isn’t science—it’s an art. We only practice.” They also often say, “I don’t know. We don’t have a treatment for that.”

Jesus always knows what to do; his healing is free and is available to everyone. It does no harm and has no bad side-effects. He and his healing are way above any physician. That is good news!

They say,“God has people be sick so that they can witness to the doctors and nurses.”

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Is it true? No.

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Really? Are medical personnel a breed apart from the rest of the world so that none of them are Christians? That none of them witness to each other? That they never go to community events or even have Christian family members, and no one but sick people to speak to them about Jesus? In fact, many medical workers are Christians.

Yes, God will turn anything for our good as Romans 8:28 says, but he’s a good father, and good fathers do NOT make their children sick. When human fathers do this, they end up in jail—or worse.

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7:9-11

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

They say, “Not Being Healed Makes a Better Testimony”

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Jesus never ever told anyone that it’s better for them to not be healed because it will make a better testimony. Rather, every person who came to him was healed, as well as many he sought out. It’s good to be patient in sickness, but so much better to receive the gift of God’s healing, which brings glory to God!

The Bible instructs us, “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act (Proverbs 3:27). It was definitely within Jesus’ power to heal everyone—he did not withhold the good, he gave freely.

Jesus said, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:7-11

When we ask for healing, he doesn’t say no, it’s better if you’re sick.

Yes, I know all too well that not everyone who asks God for healing is healed. I don’t know why—there are many dynamics in each case, but he doesn’t say that it makes for a better testimony. I recommend though, that people who have this question ask God rather than making up their own reasons or putting words into Jesus’ mouth.

What about Paul’s “thorn in the flesh?” Read about that here:https://urbanlegendsbible.com/?s=thorn+in+the+flesh