I have to respectfully disagree with this statement. I question my doctor's opinion all the time. I have managed to resolve certain conditions without filling prescriptions he has advised because I questioned his solution enough to dig for another solution that worked and it turned out to be a simple change in my diet
It is amazing what sorts of OTC products the physicians describe. After having gamma-ray surgery for a small benign tumor on my auditory nerve (just above the ear) I was having difficulties holding my balance. The doctor a world-renown MD, PhD, and a full professor at a medical college told me to take ginger extract--and it worked.
Because my LDL was elevated, and the total cholesterol was 205, the MD told me to take vitamin E, or fish oil. That also worked.
BTW the easy way to remember the difference between the two is that the HDL is healthy and the LDL is lethal.
He recently prescribed a medication to help get my HDL, LDL, and Triglycerides into better balance. I asked him why this was necessary since my overall cholesterol is within normal parameters and the balance of these items hasn't really changed. I wasn't interested in taking another pill just because he says I should and I needed more explanation than that. My HDL is historically low, my LDL is historically high, and my Triglycerides are historically high so what's the diff? He told me it was because of my diabetes situation. Even though my diabetes is well under control with my diet and weight control, the fact that I have shown a propensity for the condition makes my cholesterol a much bigger concern. Now I can accept his prescription.
Diabetes is a killer because it is an assault on every part of the body at once; no one knows where it is going to hit next--and that is the reason why many insurance companies refused to take on diabetics as a pre-existing condition. Diabetics have astronomical medical bills, even if they take care of themselves. Because the insult of diabetes is to the entire body it is likely that a diabetic can have retina detachments, floaters in the eyes, loss of feeling in the extremities, cold hands and feet which can also be a sign of peripheral artery disease.
Then there is the issue of insulin production. It can be too little, or the body can reject is, and treat one's own insulin as a foreign substance, and attack it as it is being made in the pancreas.
Further complicating things is the type of diabetes a person has. Type 1 is juvenile-onset diabetes, and type 2 is adult-onset diabetes. There are some medications that are not recommended for type 1 diabetes, and vice versa for type 2 diabetes.
What does all this above have to do with the OP?
Plenty.
Jesus Christ is our Healer, in addition to being our Savior, Sanctifier and Coming King.
Isaiah 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 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.
1 Peter 2: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
Here we have two Apostles Peter and James, half brother of Jesus, and first Bishop of Jerusalem writing about 30+ years after the Resurrection of Christ, and referring to Isaiah 532:5. What is amazing here, and often overlooked by those who do not believe that physical healing is not in the Atonement is that if it is not included in the Atonement, then neither were our transgressions, our iniquities and there is then no peace from Jesus that we have. You see, the fruits of the Atonement is not like the old Chinese restaurant menus, where you take some from column A, and some from column B.
Nor is there any indication that healing has ceased, ever. Since there is nothing that directly indicates cessation of healing (or any other spiritual gift) in the Bible, it stands to reason that healing still happens. Then there is the timeline, which is important. Both James and Pete wrote after Pentecost, and after Acts. If, under inspiration and guidance of Holy Spirit they wrote those things, then who are we to state that healing or other spiritual gifts has ceased?
[If you are a Dispensationalist, please do not derail this thread, and bring 1 Corinthians 13:10 unless you know the singular neuter adjective to which τελειόv refers to (and which the ESV translates as "..when the perfect comes...) please begin another thread, OK? I say that because "bible" is feminine.]
Further, we have 10 instances in Matthew, where "Healed" is used:
Matthew 4:24
Matthew 8:8
Matthew 8:13
Matthew 8:16
Matthew 12:15
Matthew 12:22
Matthew 14:14
Matthew 15:30
Matthew 19:2
Matthew 21:14
Since Jesus Christ is also the Creator of the Universe.
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Hebrews 1:22 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
let us understand that in addition to being our Savior, Jesus is ALSO our creator. As a result, ALL healing comes from him; and I believe that it is a false dichotomy to make a difference from a non-medical healing (aka miracle) and that wrought by medical science, which Jesus also created. All man did is recently discover how to create compounds that can help do the healings. It is Jesus who put it all together.
