I can see no promise of physical healing in the atonement. I read your OP and can't see it, so if I'm overlooking it, please point it out to me.
I think, it is talking about Spiritual healing in the atonement.
If the atonement covered physical healing then wouldn't anyone who was sick be immediately healed as soon as they got saved, and then never get sick again with any type of illness not even a cold?
I do believe in healing, just not the name it and claim it kind. I know that God has the power to heal anyone at anytime, but he does this according to his will. We all have our own walks in life and God uses us for his glory and his purpose...we are to seek God's will in our life not our own. I'm not saying not to pray for healing. I would like to see all Christians healed. So Yes, let's all pray and ask for healing for all of our brothers and sisters...but we need to be sure to remember that if it doesn't happen, then it doesn't necessarily mean we don't have enough faith. It could just mean it is not the Lord's will.
So honestly, that is why I don't like you're statement about unbelief. Too me, implying that because a person doesn't get healed, they must have less faith than a person who does get healed... is just plain wrong.
With Paul, I have no idea what his thorn was. All I know is that it he was buffeted by the enemy and God did not take it away. It was God's will for Paul, to suffer with what ever it was. He couldn't just name it and claim it so he listened and understood when God said my grace is sufficient for you. Now, I am in no way saying that all sick people are experiencing what Paul did. I am just saying sometimes we can pray all we want, but it is just not God's will.
I think, it is talking about Spiritual healing in the atonement.
If the atonement covered physical healing then wouldn't anyone who was sick be immediately healed as soon as they got saved, and then never get sick again with any type of illness not even a cold?
I do believe in healing, just not the name it and claim it kind. I know that God has the power to heal anyone at anytime, but he does this according to his will. We all have our own walks in life and God uses us for his glory and his purpose...we are to seek God's will in our life not our own. I'm not saying not to pray for healing. I would like to see all Christians healed. So Yes, let's all pray and ask for healing for all of our brothers and sisters...but we need to be sure to remember that if it doesn't happen, then it doesn't necessarily mean we don't have enough faith. It could just mean it is not the Lord's will.
So honestly, that is why I don't like you're statement about unbelief. Too me, implying that because a person doesn't get healed, they must have less faith than a person who does get healed... is just plain wrong.
With Paul, I have no idea what his thorn was. All I know is that it he was buffeted by the enemy and God did not take it away. It was God's will for Paul, to suffer with what ever it was. He couldn't just name it and claim it so he listened and understood when God said my grace is sufficient for you. Now, I am in no way saying that all sick people are experiencing what Paul did. I am just saying sometimes we can pray all we want, but it is just not God's will.
I would agree we walk by faith, the unseen healing, having not received the end of our faith our new incorruptible bodies
I believe the thorn in the side was the law of God according to the letter of it.It pricked the conscience of Paul's old heart leading to the spiritual understanding. Leprosy the disease of no pain in that way is used to represent hard calloused hearts
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.