toddm said:Nobody never said that Christ didn't heal people. Nor did anyone say that God doesn't still heal today. What I, and a few others, were saying is that Isaiah 53:5 does not refer to physical healing.Apostolic Soldier said:Uh, back on topic Christ most definately healed people's physical sicknesses. According to his own words we could perform the miracles he performed and even greater. If you do not believe in physical healing that is "having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof" the Bible says to turn away from sense. There are too many examples in the Gospels and Acts of people being physically healed to refute that prayer can indeed heal.
And you'd be correct. Context is everything.
One only needs to read the verse in context to see it was not talking about physical healing.
Transgressions, sins, iniquities....it's quite clear, actually.
Isaiah 53:3-12 said:He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.