Is There Physical Healing In The Atonement?
Sermon Date:
September 19, 2010
Scripture:
1 Peter 2:24
Series:
Misinterpreted Bible Passages
Speaker: Dr. Donald McKay
1 Peter 2:24: “who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
Get rid of those glasses because you don’t need them. And stop taking that cold medicine, that Dimetapp or that Tylenol or that awful, awful Buckley’s that you have such a hard time getting down you, because you don’t need that either. And stop going for chemotherapy treatments for that cancer of yours for they are absolutely unnecessary.
That’s the kind of thing that you will hear today from the mouths of a lot of Christians who subscribe to what is called healing in the atonement. And one of the classic proof texts that those who have bought into this concept will point to in order to support their position is this passage here in 1 Peter 2:24, which while often misinterpreted is in fact a wonderful, wonderful portion of scripture.
Now we want to take a...
“By whose stripes you were healed” – that is quoted by a lot of Christians today who interpret it to mean that believers never have to be sick. But does the concept of “healing in the atonement” really square with Peter’s words? Or is it a mistaking of his message?