What can explain such rage and fury against One so good, so holy, so righteous, so kind, so powerful, and so benevolent?

When we read the four Gospel accounts (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), we are astounded at the vast numbers of human beings that our blessed Lord Jesus Christ cured (of every kind of disease, etc.).  Galilee and Judea were largely made the most physically healthy places that the Earth ever saw, following the Fall of Man into sin.

One could argue that the hospitals, prompt care units, counseling centers, and (even) funeral homes were given a respite from their ordinary routines.  Myriads of people–all sinners in Adam–thronged around Jesus, to be relieved of their blindness, sickness, deafness, dropsy, paralysis, kyphosis, epilepsy, fevers, withered limbs, muteness, leprosy, blood-flows, and demon-possession.  It is astonishing, to think about how many bodies and souls were healed by the Messiah of God.  (Sometimes He simply raised dead bodies back to life, as in Jn. 11:44 and Lk. 7:15, for example.)

 But, what I want to emphasize in this short paper, is the fact that all healing that is ever done by God–even today–is done through the mediation of Jesus Christ.  It is incorrect, to think that God heals in any other way.  (Also, we are not dealing here with “natural” healing, i.e. via doctors and medicine, etc.; and we are certainly not talking about any kind of healing that the devil may be able to achieve.)

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