The Bible tells us to pray “forgive us our trespasses” and urges us “to confess our sins,” but nowhere does it say that we should pray “forgive us our arthritis” or “Lord, I confess that I have the flu.” Sickness is not sin. Having diabetes or a head cold is not sinful. There is no guilt in disease or sickness. But what can it possibly mean to say God made him “to be sick” on our behalf? We know what the apostle Paul meant when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:21 that God “made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf." He was declaring that the guilt of our sins was imputed to Christ and that it was because of that guilt that he was punished in our place. Another once wrote that “Christ endured vicariously our diseases as well as our iniquities.” What is being said is that Christ bore our sicknesses in the very same way that he bore our sins. Everything that causes physical pain was laid on Jesus as the nails were driven into His hands and feet” (Colin Urquhart). It is as if one lash was for cancer, another for bone disease, another for heart disease, and so on. "When Jesus stood bearing the lashes from the Roman soldiers, all our physical pain and sicknesses were being heaped upon him. Word of Faith advocate Gloria Copeland once wrote: “Jesus bore your sicknesses and carried your diseases at the same time and in the same manner (emphasis mine) that he bore your sins.” Another author put it this way: Some believe that just as God the Father made Jesus to be “sin” for us on the cross he also made him to be “sick” for us on the cross.
In order to understand what Peter had in mind in quoting this OT passage, I need to address a very controversial question: Is there healing in the atonement? But he was wounded for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.” “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. Here in 1 Peter 2:24-25 the apostle is very clearly alluding to Isaiah 53:4-5.
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