Question about Healing

[EricH]

I've seen that the majority of Christians do not believe that it is God's Will for everyone to be healed. Yet these same Christians will take medicine and go to the doctor when they get sick in order to get well. Why are they trying to obtain something that may not be God's Will for them? Why are they fighting God's Will?

Not all disease can be healed...however certain things can. If God wants us to be healed then we shoudl rely on the doctors He has given us in order to be healed. Such as, someone suffering from cancer can rely on the technology available to fight cancer and if they are healed, wonderful. If not, then they simply are not. There is a line from a Brave Saint Saturn song that sums it up:

He fought to stay, but always dreamed he could leave this place

Basically, we want to stay on this earth and will fight to stay (in order to help those who need help), but at the same time, if we don't, then we are healed. Either way, whether we are healed through medicine, no medicine, or death, God's Will has been done.

So the reasoning you use here is that whatever happens, whether healing, or death, God's Will has been done . . . The only problem with this reasoning is it assumes that whatever happens is God's Will. And when you try to apply that to other areas of Christian living . . . . Say sin for instance, then you assume that because a CHristian sins, that it was God's Will?

Where is the line drawn? Is everything that happens God's Will?

Sin and sickness are completely seperate issues. For instance, sickness is something that occurs to us mostly outside of our control. Sin, however, is us going against God's Will which places it inside of our control. This is why it is called sin, missing the mark...the mark being God's Will.

If we seek God's Will in sickness, no matter what, His Will has been accomplished. We are fools to think that something can occur without Him Willing it or at least allowing it (God does allow sin, though He does not will it). Nothing occurs which God could not have prevented.

Sicknesses was one of the results of man's disobedience in the garden of Eden.Sicknesses was a result of sin in the beginning.Could sicknesses today be linked to the fact that we are born with a sin nature?

I think that at least at a macro level you are correct. But scripture seems also to teach that some illnesses are not directly tied (in a causal way) to personal sin. I am thinking of the story of the blind man in John chpater 9. As the disciples observed the blind man that wanted to know whose sin caused the blindness (the man himself or his parents). Jesus responded:

Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was in order that the works of God might be displayed in him."

John 9:3 NASB

According to Jesus, God's purpose in allowing this man to be born in blindness was to demonstrate His power in the life of the man. So I guess we could say that as a result of sin entering into the world, spiritual death (separation from God) entered into the world. Two of the symptoms of spritual death are physical death and disease. God now uses the symptoms of the of spiritual death (death and disease) as tools to present the cure for the real disease which is spiritual death. God shows himself powerful even in the midst of the consequences of spiritual death, and even turns them on their head to cure the real disease (spiritual death). Until Spiritual death is ultimately conquered, all aleviation of the consequences of spiritual death will be only temporary.

[HAZARD]

We all can get power from God to overcome sickness on the same basis as we get power from God to overcome sin. Jesus taught that God has the power to do both and that one power is just as easy to recieve from God as another: "For whether is easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk?" (Matt. 9:5).

Jesus further taught that conversion and bodily healing go hand in hand: "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" (Matt. 13:15).

Paul and others taught the same truth (Acts. 28:25-31; James 5:14-16; Psalm 103:1-3; 2 Chron. 7:14; Ex. 15:26).

There are however degrees or measures of power, and it is equally true that God gives to every child of His a measure of faith and power which he can use to get what he needs in life. If one does not have power to exercise at will, one can still have faith in God which will set in motion all Heaven to move on his behalf so that he can have exactly what he has faith for.

While ever we limit God and His promises through lack of faith we shall be limited in results. If we have unlimited faith we shall have unlimited answers to prayer.