In looking at the entire NT, we intend to suggest the general direction and overall scope of the teaching and insights of the NT for a theology of health, sickness, and healing.
First, sickness is a reality of human life after the fall (Gen. 3), and death eventually take place for everyone.
Second, poor health or physical disability can be the natural result of life after the fall, the result of sin, or the result of poor choices, including neglecting normal health procedures.
Third, healing is possible through God’s power and in Jesus’ name. The NT writers recount many examples of healings in the ministries of Jesus and His apostles.
Fourth, God is the source of all healing and of protection from illness or death, and no situation is too difficult for him. Yet God does not always choose to intervene to heal; his sovereign will may be expressed in other ways.
Fifth, healing may come through various means (or combinations of means): through medical means (scientific treatments and/or the use of traditional herbal remedies), including the normal healing activity of time; through miraculous healing with (or apart from) the intervention of a person having the spiritual gift of healing; or through the prayer of the elders.