(By Joseph Mattera) In this two-part series, we will explore debunking eleven primary arguments against divine healing. The following are the first five arguments:
Through the years I have witnessed many astonishing answers to prayer along with supernatural physical healings. In my beginning years as a believer, I saw virtually nobody healed, which led me to diligently search the Scriptures and church history as well as the lives of contemporary ministers God was using to bring God’s healing power to people. (I reasoned if I want to learn about something—I should study those who have already been successful in that area of my focus. If I want to learn about nutrition I will go to a nutritionist—not a car mechanic.
If I want to learn how to hit a baseball I don’t go to a quarterback coach. If I want to learn divine healing I am not only going to study the views of a cessationist theologian who never experienced or walked in God’s healing power.) Consequently, I studied the life, methodology and theology of countless people of faith, starting with the Old Testament Scriptures on toward those used of God for healing in the 20th century up till the present time. My study of church history also showed me that there were always threads of divine healing since the beginning of the church; it was not merely a phenomenon that started after the Pentecostal explosion of the 20th century. CONTINUE
