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There are many people who still hold strongly to the belief that Isaiah 53:4-5 exclusively refers to spiritual healing. Here is a list of 10 quick reasons why that can’t be:
- Jesus healed real people of real diseases in order to fulfil that prophecy. (Matt 8:16-17). If it were only for spiritual healing, apparently Jesus didn’t know about that interpretation…
- Nobody needs spiritual healing. Your spirit wasn’t sick, it was dead (Eph 2:5). Hence the fact that you needed to be born again. You were raised in newness of life, not in an improved version of the old life.
- Your new spirit, is united with the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:17). If you need spiritual healing, does that mean the Holy Spirit is sick?
- Even if it only refers to sin, physical healing is still available. Death entered through sin (Rom 5:12) and if sin has been dealt with, then it automatically makes death and its infant forms of sickness illegal. You don’t acquit a prisoner and leave him in jail. If you have been set free you don’t go on serving your punishment. Sickness was punishment for sin. Your sin has been forgiven therefore you punishment comes to an end also.
- If Isaiah 53:4-5 refers only to spiritual healing, why did Jesus have to suffer physically? The wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23), not beatings and floggings.
- The word ‘griefs’ in our English translation of Isa 53:4 is actually a Hebraic word, ‘choliy’ which means sickness. The same word appears 24 times in the old testament and in the majority of cases in reference to physical sickness.
- This is not the only prophecy Isaiah made concerning physical healing and Jesus. See for example Isaiah 35:3-6, and Isaiah 61:1-2. Incidentally the latter passage is what Jesus Himself quoted in Luke 4:18-19.
- The events of the cross were foreshadowed long before Isaiah made this prophecy. In Numbers 21:7-9 the Israelites were attacked by snakes in the desert because of their sin and they became sick and some even died. Moses was instructed by God to make a bronze serpent and place it on a pole. Whoever looked on the snake got healed and lived. This is a picture of Jesus becoming sin for us. He became the cause of our distress so the effects of it could be dealt with. He became sin to free us from not just from sin but also the punishment for it.
- Jesus refers to His flesh as the Bread of life (John 6:51). When we take communion, we remember His body broken for us. For our what? Our sins? No. That’s what the blood is for (Matt 26:28). His body was broken for our healing because His flesh is the bread of life.
- The Greek word for salvation and healing is the same word: ‘soterio’, as is the Greek word for saved and healed: ‘sozo’. Jesus also saw them as inseparable because He healed a lame man in order to prove He actually forgives sins (Matt 9:2-7). If physical healing was not what Isaiah was talking about, then Jesus could not offer it as evidence of forgiveness.
Thanks Paul Ellis for teaching me the effectiveness of making lists 
If anybody wants to add some more reasons to this list, comment below!
In Christ,
Cornel
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Call me simple, but I’d have thought #6 was the only one needed to prove this exact question.
We call it Ronseal in the UK. It does what it says. Nothing more nothing less.
(It’s a reference to a tv ad for Ronseal with the strap line ‘it does what is says on the tin’.
Good article. I have recently run into some “creative” arguments against healing, which are not creative but destructive, and they were posted in Facebook replies when someone had asked for healing prayer. One concentrated on Jesus changed healed to forgiven when He quoted Isaiah in Mark 4:12. Totally ignoring everything else that you have so thoroughly covered!
Hi there. Thanks for your work and the list, but you need to know that you fall into the same error as some of the early founders of the Pentecostal movement, Captain Kelso Carter for instance, a close colleague of Charles Simpson, who first published the idea of healing for the body being part of the atonement as a mechanical and equal part of the work of Christ on the cross. Many years later he published the apology and refutation of his earlier mistake, but that seems to have been forgotten. As a Pentecostal pastor and missionary of 38 years experience, who has seen countless healings in the UK and Africa, I am concerned for the pastoral consequences of this unbiblical teaching. Be careful with the Scriptures. Phrases like ‘nobody needs spiritual healing’ and and ‘if sin has been dealt with, then it automatically makes death and its infant forms of sickness illegal’ are simply ridiculous – risible if they were not so serious and sad.
I have examined this issue extensively and as I point out in my book Storm Force published in the UK by Authentic, the biggest problem with your theory is that it simply is not Biblical and therefore cannot be true in the way you have laid it out. I do not mean to sound mean – I am a really nice and gentle guy! I know you mean well, but take down this page and think again before you put it back up.
Bless you – we really are on the same side!
Eric Gaudion
Hi Eric,
Thanks for your concern. On this I wont recant. If you want to know why, see my 10 reasons above.
Cornel
Eric – this is not a theory. It’s an exposition of biblical truth. Your statements however all all theory, with no biblical support.
It is totally unreasonable to make such strong allegations against Cornel, who proves his case from scripture, with no scriptural support – just a claim that somebody once changed their mind.
I suggest you take down this comment and remove your book from publication and think long and hard before you put it back up.
Well, never try to dissuade someone, who has known truth, with a bunch of theories and doubt….. He is still healing today and we are sent to do the same. I’ve seen it, and I’ve been healed myself, at a word!
Ha! Great list Cornel! You know I’ll read anything that begins with “top 10″ or “10 reasons”!
Hi Cornel. This list is awesome….thank you for posting it. I have copied it to a page on modern-day healing at http://www.powerdemonstration.com (I cited you as the author, of course).
May your ministry continue to be blessed,
Chris Preitauer