My mind has been blown by this revelation. I came to it after writing my previous post, Mental Illness is Really Moral Illness. What happened is that as I was pondering the primary reason for mans’ problems stemming from sin, I realized that we cannot exclude physical problems from that as well. It has been suggested by Christian practitioners that at the root of most physical disorders which send people to seek medical care is sin manifested as unbiblical lifestyle choices which become habits. Then I remembered Jesus said this:
When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ~Matthew 9:12
Jesus provided both physical and emotional healing, along with casting out demons. He intimated that the mind and body were both sick from sin. Those who ‘are well’ would have been those who were not living in sin.
Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked…Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you”. The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ~John 5:8-9, 14-15
Wow.
Of course, sin is not always the reason for physical, or mental, sickness. Sometimes God allows a body to become ill to illustrate His glory or for His purpose which we cannot understand.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus,“but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. ~John 9:1-3
I know it is a bold to say that physical illness is moral illness. But the physical and mental aspects of man are two sides of the same coin, which comprise the body of man, and Jesus did not differentiate the two. Indeed, He addressed the person and their sin-state as a whole.
While alive, man’s body also contains his soul, and that is his spirit that does separate from the body when it dies. The soul is the fuel that causes us to live. I call it encapsulated antimatter. But that is for another blog post.
I guess somewhere along the way, man separated the two primary aspects of his body into physical and mental entities, and in so doing, made things more complicated than they needed to be. And he also besieged God’s domain further by prescribing new etiologies, diagnoses, and treatments for the sick or diseased state of man. But back in ancient times, man understood he was one being, and that sin was the reason he was sick.
We have lost this knowledge. That is why we worship doctors and psychiatrists. They are just modern-day philosophers plying their trades in innovative ways to trick man into idolizing the devil, who is the ruler of this world. The Apostle Paul warned us about being ‘taken captive by philosophy and empty deceit’:
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. ~Colossians 2:6-15
Paul makes it clear for us that when we accept Jesus as our Savior, He dwells bodily with us, and we are physically changed (through circumcision of our heart) and made alive in the flesh through faith in Christ. In other words, we are made well; we are healed.
We are not just made new in our minds, but in our bodies as well
You cannot separate the two aspects that make up man, because these aspects are part of the same flesh. Jesus is the healer of both body and mind. That is why He merely needed to speak to people and they were healed of physical and mental ailments. Sometimes He did lay hands on them, and sometimes He gave them a prescription. But everyone who sincerely sought Him was healed.
We are wasting our time with modern medicine. It is a complete waste of time. It is unholy, unbiblical, and idolatrous. Think about how much time, effort, money, and lives are lost within it.
I think about chronic diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease, diabetes, intestinal problems, obesity, liver disease, etc., and the causes are mostly sinful: smoking, consuming wrong foods and fluids, gluttony, slothfulness, etc. High blood pressure is caused by an elevated body mass index, clogged arteries, or stress, all of which are predominately related to sinful habits. Acute diseases such as infections are often also caused by sin, including sexual immorality. They can also occur for lack of implementing God’s word in our lives, even those rules put forth in the Old Testament which we don’t think apply to us anymore, such as not eating pork, eliminating mold from your house, secluding yourself when you are sick, avoiding incest and sexual immorality, or testing the Lord your God which can lead to accidents and injuries.
Man’s whole bent is to try and dissociate himself from sin. If he labels his problems as disease, categorizes them in distinct units, and separates them from the greater whole, he can point to an object (diagnosis) to blame for his problem, and distance himself from its primary root cause, sin. In other words, he can shirk his responsibility for sin and blame something else. This form of evil was the outcome of original sin, and goes all the way back to the Garden!
As I wrote previously, God is the only Healer. Life and death are His domain and He should be given the glory and honor of this. We should not seek out man to do for us what God says He will do. We should not seek to change God’s will for our lives via manly means. Christians are duped by each other and the world into this false doctrine that modern medicine and health care are biblical. They are not biblical, but evil, at their core.
But God is merciful and in His mercy He does provide healing for us, but only through His unique son, Jesus! And for true healing, you need a Christian who has been given the gift of healing. ❤
~Song of Mary~ 