Article November 17, 2008 Issue

WHAT'S IN THE BIBLE? HEALING!

BY AARON BINGHAM

A YEAR AGO, I decided I wanted to get to know the healings in the Bible better. So I began to read the Bible from cover to cover, looking for anything and everything on the topic of healing.

Armed with my laptop, and an electronic Bible concordance, I took note of any passages with physical healings, or thoughts about healing, and then pasted them into an electronic log. But I found there were so many that, halfway through, I decided to give up all the note-taking and just read!

What impressed me most was that not only did Jesus heal people, but so did Old Testament prophets such as Moses and Elijah, to name just a few. It occurred to me that the very theology of the Bible is, by nature, a healing theology.