Saturday, July 31, 2010

Why Do Faith Healers Die?

Perhaps we can reply with the question, "Why shouldn't faith healers die?" Maybe just as God doesn't rid His followers of their fleshly nature while on Earth, He doesn't rid us of the natural cycle of life and death either. Just as Solomon says in Ecclesiastes 3, there is "a season for every activity under heaven" (verse 1, NIV). He goes on to say in the next verse that there is a time to be born and a time to die. So, maybe the Earthly order of things is such that we have to deal with our fleshly nature as well as the natural cycles of life and death while we reside here, even if Jesus conquered sin, sickness, and death.

I came across a series of interviews with Christian pastor and writer John MacArthur where the question of "Is healing in the atonement" was brought up. MacArthur replies by saying, "That’s obviously not true because all those people who believe that die." He later admits (in one of the interviews on healing) that if faith healing weren't a sham (which he asserts that it is), he'd like to be healed! Perhaps there's still hope for you, brother. Perhaps there's still hope.

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