Few healings recorded in Old Testament
 

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Healing scriptures should be taken in full biblical context.
 

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The blessings and cursings of Deuteronomy 28 are national rather than personal.
 

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Healing as such is not really promised in these verses except as it is implied in a general way in the promise to remove sickness. (Deuteronomy 28)
 

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Psalms 103:3 is no more a blanket promise for unconditional physical healing than any of the other promises in the psalm, as other scriptures and the experiences of the Church show.
 

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Several examples of non-healing are also recorded in the New Testament.
 

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Not everyone is healed.  2 Tim. 4:20 and 1 Tim 5:23
 

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Paul had a "thorn in the flesh" that was not healed.
 

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James 5:14-20: Although this one statement appears to be written without qualification, the condition, "if it be God's will," was no doubt tacitly understood.
 

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"save" [sozo] used mostly in the spiritual sense of eternal salvation.
 

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"raise" [egeiro] used mostly to represent the resurrection from the dead.
 

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[James 5:14-20]: Thus, while James is primarily speaking of physical healing upon anointing by the elders, he is also alluding to spiritual salvation and the resurrection from the dead.   It may have been James' intent to show that God will probably heal the faithful sick person, but certainly shall grant him salvation through the resurrection.
 

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[James 5:14-20]:  The promise of physical healing is conditional.  The promise of the resurrection of the dead is unconditional.
 

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It is true that the Bible often condemns ancient practitioners who relied on pagan gods, amulets, incantations or other forms of magic.
 

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2 Kings 1:2: This passage does not mean that Ahaziah went to Baalzebub for healing.   He was only trying to figure out if he was going to die.
 

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Isaiah 38:21:  Hezekiah seeks both God and medical science in dealing with his sickness.
 

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Jeremiah 8:22: There is no sense of condemnation of medical science.
 

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2 Chronicles 16:12: Asa is censured for not seeking God in his illness.  He is not condemned for seeking physicians.
 

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Luke was a physician, yet there is no reference to him giving up his practice.  He is called the "beloved physician".
 

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Jeremiah 30:13, 51:8 and Ezekiel 30-21: The metaphors involved here allude to medicines but are nowhere condemned.
 

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Ezekiel 47:12:  Shows positive use of medicines.
 

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Revelation 22:2: Healing preparations shall still be used after new heaven and new earth.
 

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3 John 2:  "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."  This verse shows God's overall desire for mankind.
 

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The Bible gives basic principles of health which, counted with common sense, experience and modern knowledge, would prevent many of the health problems plaguing modern man.
 

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Healing is not part of His spiritual, moral law, as it were; and not being healed, therefore, is not a sin.
 

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Anointing for the sick - James 5:14:  The oil is a symbol of God's Holy Spirit (cf. Ex. 30:23-25; Matthew 25:lff; etc.); the act of one having hands laid upon him shows the person's desire to be set apart by God through His Spirit for the special miracle of the divine healing of his body.
 

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James 5:14:  If sin is involved in sickness, the sin shall be forgiven and the person healed.
 

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John 9:  Jesus confirms that physical debilities are not necessarily caused by sin.
 

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Luke 13:1-5:  Not all sickness is the result of sin
 

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The Bible nowhere speaks of "physical sin."
 

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Luke 5:24: Jesus has the authority on earth to forgive sins.
 

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Luke 5:20:  The power to forgive sin is proved by the healing.
 

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Luke 5:20:  The healing is differentiated from the forgiveness of sin.  They were two separate acts, with the former being used to prove Jesus' power over the latter.
 

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John 11:25:  Jesus is the resurrection and the life.
 

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1 Peter 2:24:  Healing can take various forms including spiritual, mental, physical and even environmental.
 

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1 Cor 11:27-30: Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
 

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1 Cor. 11:30: Physical ills do result from spiritual problems.
 

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1 Cor 11 27-30:  A Christian must discern the body of the Lord which was sounded so that we could be healed.  We must also identify with the sufferings and sacrifice of Jesus Christ which are vital elements in the healing Process.
 

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1 Cor. 12:  The initial surge of miracles healings ended.  Though there are indications that some had a gift of healings, those in higher levels of responsibility in the church did not necessarily have the gifts of healing.
 

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We are able to study God's Word and develop real spiritual faith without depending on the external crutch of physical evidence through miracles.
 

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Isaiah 66:2:  God is looking for he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at His word.
 

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Romans 14:23: The scripture which states that "for whatsoever is not of faith is sin" does not refer to a lack of faith as sin. It rather means that when one violates his conscience, his own sense of right and wrong, then that is sin.
 

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Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. -Rev. 14:13

For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. -Rom 14:8
 

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1 Cor. 13:13:  Faith is not the greatest aspect of the Christian life.  Love is.  Therefore one weak in faith but strong in love is the far greater Christian in God's sight.
 

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Matthew 4:5-7:  Asking God to do something supernaturally for us that we could do for ourselves is a form of tempting God.
 

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Luke 8:43-48 records the story of "a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any. Note that Jesus in no way unbraided the woman for having gone to the physicians.
 

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Luke 8:43-48: Jesus did not withhold healing from the woman with an issue of blood because she used medical science or because she came to Him as a last resort.  Indeed, He said she had faith to be healed.
 

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