FAULTY DOCTRINE AND THEOLOGY

You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food ...

2 Timothy 4:3 The Message Bible

The teaching of false doctrine concerning the Biblical principles of healing is responsible for keeping many in the body of Christ sick and needlessly suffering. What good parent would discipline their children by withholding medication or medical attention from a child they knew was sick and suffering. Sadly, that is exactly what many Christians accuse God of doing.

What Jesus bore — we need not bear

Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:4-5

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness for by his wounds you were healed.

1 Peter 2:24

When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.

Matthew 8:16-17

Tell me something! Did Jesus bear those stripes on His back for nothing? If it was God’s will to use sickness to chastise His children, why did He lay our sicknesses upon Jesus? Matthew 8:17 says Jesus carried our diseases. The Greek word translated as “carried” bastazo means to suffer or bear on the behalf of others. This means that Jesus bore all our sickness and diseases for us so we would not have to bear them ourselves. Therefore, God would not use sickness to humble His children when He already laid our sicknesses and diseases on Christ. God’s words are truth and God is not a man, that he should lie (Numbers 23:19).

... resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1 Peter 5:9-10 KJV

The Greek word for afflictions is pathema and is used for undergoing hardship or emotional pain.

The Greek word for suffered is pascho and it simply means to suffer.

The kind of afflictions Peter said we would suffer are troubles, hardships, temptations, persecutions and trails. After all, Jesus does say: In this world you will have trouble ... (John 16:33). Also Jesus says: ... If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also (John 15:20).