Good post! The idea of healing in the atonement is not only unscriptural, but it produces major pastoral problems among sick christians who live with condemnation because of it.
God is not backslidden, the Holy Ghost is not unbelieving. The church is backslidden and unbelieving. The sooner we get to the place of admitting that the problem is not God, not God's word, the better it will be for us and for the world which cries to us for answers that really, really work.
I include myself in the indictment when I say the church is in a hopelessly, helplessly backslidden state. I am the church.
We'll stop making excuses, making up false doctrines and philosophies as to why the sick are not healed, why we see no miracles. We'll stop re-interpreting God's word to make it not say what it clearly does say.
Bless the Lord o my soul and forget not ALL His benefits
who forgiveth ALL thine iniquities who healeth ALL thine diseases
who satisfieth thy mouth [YOU] with good things.
Nobody doubts or questions that He forgiveth all thine iniquities, the whole church is rock solid and cries with one united voice. God will always forgive the repentant sinner. Never would He cast such a one out.
But when we come to He healeth all thine diseases we begin to cough and splutter.
Now look I've said this often, the church went through centuries of utter darkness when hardly a twinkle of gospel light appeared to break up the gloom.
The Holy Ghost didn't cease to work during all that time, He ceased to work openly, with demonstration, the gifts ceased to operate among the congregation. WHY? because the church had backslidden and was no longer operating along new testament lines. A FALSE ministry was set up, a priesthood installed, a clergy class. All the things that had been done away when the veil in the temple was rent.
The Holy Ghost still worked but He worked secretly. People still got saved.
The church joined hands with the government and looked to the government for protection ... The church still does look to the government to protect it.
If the truth were known the reformation as great as it was, earth shaking, yet it has only just scratched the surface. The reformation only recovered but the basics, the beginnings of salvation doctrines. We got stuck on the doctrines of Calvin or Arminius which opened the door to a perfect tsunami of doctrines of men.
We need to get back to the pure word of God, back to the bible.
The salvation of the bible was a total salvation for the whole man. it's body, soul and spirit. Pardon, healing and deliverance.