Evidence that Healing is Included in the Atonement

SavedByGrace3 · Mar 26, 2025

It is often argued that there is no evidence of healing in the atonement before the modern Pentecostal movement.
I will add these and look for others.

THANKSGIVING FOLLOWING HOLY COMMUNION
Lord Jesus Christ, my God, let Your sacred Body be unto me for eternal life and Your precious Blood for forgiveness of sins. Let this Eucharist be unto me for joy, health and gladness.
----John Chrysostom

Remember me, O Lord, in thy Kingdom. Not unto judgement nor unto condemnation be my partaking of thy Holy Mysteries, O Lord, but unto the healing of soul and body.
----John Chrysostom

Having partaken of the precious Body and Blood of Christ, let us give thanks to him who has made us
worthy to partake of these sacred mysteries, and let us plead that it not redound to our fault, but to our salvation, to
health of soul and body, to preservation of piety, to remission of sins, and life everlasting.
----Ancient Eastern liturgies

He that eateth my Body and drinketh my Blood shall dwell in me and I in him. Therefore, O Lord, have compassion on me and make not an example of me, thy sinful servant. But do unto me according thy great mercy, and grant that these Holy Gifts may be for me unto the healing, purification, enlightenment, protection, salvation and sanctification of my soul and body, and to the expulsion of every evil imagination, sinful deed or work of the Devil. May
----St. Basil

SavedByGrace3 · Mar 27, 2025

English Office of Holy Communion:

"Furthermore, O Lord, heal the diseases of our soul, cure our bodily weaknesses, O Physician of souls and bodies, Overseer of all flesh, oversee and heal us by Thy Salvation."

Communion Prayer of
St Basil the Great (330 AD)

O Lord, I know that if I partake unworthily of Your most pure Body and precious Blood, I will be guilty. I will be eating and drinking my own condemnation by not giving proper reverence to Your Body and Blood. But, trusting in Your mercy, I dare come to You, for You have said: "He who eats my Flesh and drinks My Blood abides in Me and I in him." Be merciful to me, a sinner, O Lord, and do not reject me, but deal with me according to Your mercy. Grant that this Holy Mystery be for the healing of 8, for the enlightenment of my mind, and for the protection of my life. Let it be for the amendment of my conduct, for perseverance, for the increase of virtue, and for protection in the communion of Your Holy Spirit. Give me Your Body and Blood, O Lord, as a provision for the journey to eternal life, and for an acceptable answer at Your judgment seat. Do not let it be for my judgment or condemnation. Amen.

SavedByGrace3 · Mar 27, 2025

Communion Prayer of
St John Damascene (690ad)

I stand before the doors of Your temple, and I do not forsake my grievous thoughts. But, O Christ my God, as You justified the tax-collector, and had mercy on the woman of Canaan, and opened the gates of Paradise to the thief, open to me the inner depths of Your love for mankind, and receive me as I come and repent before You. Receive me as You received the harlot and the woman with the issue of blood. For the first embraced Your pure feet and received the forgiveness of her sins, while the second just touched the hem of Your garment and received healing.(recall this is a communion prayer)
And I, in my pitiableness, dare to receive Your whole Body, may I not be burned; but receive me as You have received them, and enlighten my spiritual senses, burning up my sinful faults, through the prayers of her who gave birth to You without seed, and of the angelic powers, for You are blessed forever. Amen.

SavedByGrace3 · Mar 27, 2025

From the
Eastern Orthodox Prayer Book

A prayer to be offered after communion:

Glory to Thee O God. Thrice
I thank Thee, O Lord my God, that Thou hast not rejected me, a sinner, but hast vouchsafed me to be a communicant of Thy holy Things. I thank Thee that Thou hast vouchsafed me, the unworthy, to partake of Thy most pure and heavenly Gifts. But, O Master, Lover of mankind, Who for our sake didst die and rise again and didst bestow upon us these dread and life-creating Mysteries for the well-being and sanctification of our souls and bodies, grant that these may be even unto me for the healing of both soul and body, for the averting of everything hostile, for the enlightenment of the eyes of my heart, for the peace of the powers of my soul, for faith unashamed, for love unfeigned, for the fullness of wisdom, for the keeping of Thy commandments, for an increase of Thy divine grace, and for the attainment of Thy Kingdom; that being preserved by Them in Thy holiness, I may remember Thy grace always, and no longer live for myself, but for Thee, our Master and Benefactor; and thus when I have departed this life in hope of life eternal, I may attain unto everlasting rest, where the sound of them that keep festival is unceasing and the delight is endless of them that behold the ineffable beauty of Thy countenance. For Thou art the true desire and the unutterable gladness of them that love Thee, O Christ our God, and all creation doth hymn Thee unto the ages. Amen.

SavedByGrace3 · Mar 27, 2025

From Bishop Alexander of the Russian Orthodox Church:

The Priest says the following Prayer:

O Thou Who art without beginning, eternal, and the Holy of Holies, Who didst send down Thine Only-begotten Son to heal every infirmity and every wound of our souls and bodies: Do Thou send down Thy Holy Spirit and sanctify this Oil; and cause it to be for Thy servant, N., who is to be anointed, perfect deliverance from his (her) sins, and for the inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom....

O Holy Father, Physician of souls and bodies, Who didst send Thine Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who healeth every infirmity and delivereth from death: Do Thou heal Thy servant, N., of the bodily and spiritual infirmities which possess him (her), and enliven him (her) through the grace of Thy Christ....

And the Sixth Priest says the following Prayer:

We thank Thee, O Lord our God, Thou good Lover of Mankind and Physician of our souls and bodies, Who painlessly bore our infirmities, by Whose stripes we have all been healed;

NBB · Apr 12, 2025

You don't need much research, the bible says, 'They will cast out devils, they will pray for the sick and they will heal'
Which means God supports praying for the sick, and also commanded it. 'They will pray.... is basically a command, and they will heal...' is a promise.

SavedByGrace3 · Apr 12, 2025

NBB said:
You don't need much research, the bible says, 'They will cast out devils, they will pray for the sick and they will heal'
Which means God supports praying for the sick, and also commanded it. 'They will pray.... is basically a command, and they will heal...' is a promise.

Yes, and amen. Yet there are many who today refuse these things, or they put an addendum on these verses.
"They will cast out devils if it be God's will..."
"They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover if it be God's will..."
"The prayer of faith will save (heal) the sick and they will recover if it be God's will..."
"Whatever you ask the Father in my name, I WILL do it if it be God's will..."
"If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it if it be God's will..."
"By His stripes ye were healed if it be God's will..."

They fail to see and understand that these ARE the stated will of God, or they would not have been said. You do not have to certify or authenticate the words of Jesus. He said what He said and what He said is not subject to qualification. We do not have to ask if He really meant it. There are many many such statements in scripture that say like promises which are now made good by the passion of Jesus. We do not have to ask God to perform them, because Jesus has already made them yes and amen. God is not going to renege on these stated and fulfilled promises and in so doing, ignore the sacrifice Jesus made to make them good.

Saying "if it be God's will" to His stated will is like saying "hath God said?" And you know where that comes from.

NBB · Apr 12, 2025

SavedByGrace3 said:
Yes, and amen. Yet there are many who today refuse these things, or they put an addendum on these verses.
"They will cast out devils if it be God's will..."
"They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover if it be God's will..."
"The prayer of faith will save (heal) the sick and they will recover if it be God's will..."
"Whatever you ask the Father in my name, I WILL do it if it be God's will..."
"If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it if it be God's will..."
"By His stripes ye were healed if it be God's will..."

They fail to see and understand that these ARE the stated will of God, or they would not have been said. You do not have to certify or authenticate the words of Jesus. He said what He said and what He said is not subject to qualification. We do not have to ask if He really meant it. There are many many such statements in scripture that say like promises which are now made good by the passion of Jesus. We do not have to ask God to perform them, because Jesus has already made them yes and amen. God is not going to renege on these stated and fulfilled promises and in so doing, ignore the sacrifice Jesus made to make them good.

Saying "if it be God's will" to His stated will is like saying "hath God said?" And you know where that comes from.

Yes i believe so, but is not an automatic button either, sometimes there are things blocking the blessing some people waited decades for a blessing.

SavedByGrace3 · Apr 12, 2025

NBB said:
Yes i believe so, but is not an automatic button either, sometimes there are things blocking the blessing some people waited decades for a blessing.

I agree. There may be something blocking the reception, but not the giving. The promise has been fulfilled, and the decision stands as true in heaven. Some folks resolve that God has changed His mind about the gospel and is not only withholding the guarantee but also defrauding Jesus, who paid the price. They declare God to be the hindrance. It is not. It is finished in heaven.

ABlessedAnomaly · Jun 8, 2025

NBB said:
Yes i believe so, but is not an automatic button either, sometimes there are things blocking the blessing some people waited decades for a blessing.

This is true. The latter half of Hebrews 11 speaks of those who did not receive their promises in this life.

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