You were not spiritually healed by Jesus' stripes anyway!Īnother reason that the "healed spiritually" argument is pathetic is that you were NOT healed spiritually by Jesus' stripes. Otherwise, he would not be substituting for us by bearing sickness. Since the context is physical distress, we should conclude that the healing talked about here is also physical. (I'll let you verify this yourself in your favorite concordance.) In the context in Isaiah 53, Jesus bore our sicknesses and our pains (see elsewhere in this book for proof that this is the correct translation of the Hebrew) and was wounded and bruised for us. In the vast majority of cases, it obviously refers to physical healing. The word Isaiah used for healed can be used literally or figuratively, as the English word can. God also "heals" emotional hurts and other areas of your life, but there is no basis for saying that God's healing promised in these verses does not include physical healing.ġ Peter 2:24 is the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:4-5, which also speaks of physical healing I would protest that the people of Bible times did not make a big distinction between different "kinds" of healing, and that God's healing in these verses is "including, but not limited to" physical healing. Although heal could be construed in more general terms in these verses, this does not mean that heal is exclusive of physical healing. The fact is that God is the total healer of his people, and he wants you healed in every area of your life. However, this handful of verses is used unfairly by opponents of healing to attempt to prove that "healed" does not "always" involve physical healing. "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." - John 12:40. "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." - Matthew 13:15. "He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted" - Luke 4:18. There are a few places in the New Testament where the word could possibly (but not conclusively) be said to apply to a more general kind of healing. "And pray one for another, that ye may be healed" - James 5:16 (in a passage telling what to do if there is "any sick among you").Ī related word, also derived from iaomai, is used in 1 Cor 12:9, 28 and 30 when speaking of gift(s) of healing (iama, Strong's word #2386). "Lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed" - Hebrews 12:13. "Laid his hands on him and healed him" - Acts 28:8. "And healing all that were oppressed of the devil" - Acts 10:38. "Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed" - Acts 9:34. "And the lame man which was healed held Peter and John" - Acts 3:11. "And he that was healed wist not who it was." - John 5:13. "And besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death" - John 4:47. "He touched his ear, and healed him" - Luke 22:51. "And one of them, when he saw that he was healed." - Luke 17:15. "And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father" - Luke 9:42. "And healed them that had need of healing" - Luke 9:11. "And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick" - Luke 9:2. "How she was healed immediately" - Luke 8:47. "Certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities" - Luke 8:2. "But say in a word, and my servant shall be healed" - Luke 7:7. "There went virtue out of him, and healed them all" - Luke 6:19. "Which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases" - Luke 6:17. "The power of the Lord was present to heal them" - Luke 5:17. "She was healed of that plague" - Mark 5:29. "And besought him, that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death" - John 4:47. "His servant was healed in the selfsame hour - Matthew 8:13. "But speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed" - Matthew 8:8. (Iaomai is Strong's word #2390, iatros is #2395 you are invited to look these up for yourself.) See if you think this word (iaomai) could possibly mean spiritual healing in these New Testament verses where it is used: The Greek word healed (iaomai) in 1 Peter 2:24Īccording to Strong's concordance, the word iaomai (used in 1 Peter 2:24) is the word from which the Greek word for physician (iatros) is derived.
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