Wrong. The doctrine of faith healing keeps people out of early graves! Lack of wisdom sends people to their graves prematurely. Failure to use common sense sends people to their graves prematurely. Nothing is wrong with the doctrine.

Let your doctor tell you when you don't need to take your medicine anymore. You don't need to be afraid of going to the doctor. He can verify that you are healed. If you think he will find that you are not, you are not really in faith to begin with. It's pointless to fear doctors. They are on God's side, after all, when it comes to your healing. You just have to ignore any of their statements that nothing can be done, because you know a higher law than the physical laws on which earthly medicine is based.


You can't even necessarily stop taking medicine based on feelings. For example, if you have high blood pressure, you may not "feel" like you need to take medicine. You may have no good way of knowing if you need the medicine or not without a medical exam. You could stop taking the medication, feel fine for a while, and then have a heart attack because it turns out that you weren't in faith for your healing.

The fact is that people have died, saying that they were "in faith" (obviously, they were not) and therefore they would not take their medicine because "by Jesus' stripes, they were healed." The press loves to latch onto these cases and parade them to make sure that we all know how "evil" the doctrine of faith healing is. Now and then, a scare book or scare story comes out about parents who lost a child because they believed "faith teachers." This is supposed to make the rest of us avoid faith teaching and believing in healing. These people never understood faith or healing in the first place. The proof is that they distorted the teachings they heard to say that "faith teachers" are against doctors, which they are not. The prominent faith teachers of our day are unanimous in their support of the use of doctors. If the people in the scare book were that careless in hearing what these teachers said about doctors, it should come as no surprise that they messed up what they heard on faith and healing.


Yeah, but what about the people who believe all the right things and die anyway? Paul talked about some such people in Corinth, and the Mistakes section of this book shows that you can believe the right things about divine healing but not be healed for completely different reasons that have nothing to do with your healing doctrine.

Throwing your medicine away does absolutely nothing toward your healing. You are either in faith or you are not. Throwing away medicine does not twist God's arm and make him heal you. It does not necessarily honor him, either. If you get healed, it will be because you believed God, not because you did or did not throw away your medicine.

If we could get this through to people, they would not do stupid things and die while learning faith. I hope that I have gotten the message through to you.