By His Stripes Are We Healed?

We are told (Isaiah 53:5) and (1 Peter 2:24) havewhatsoever!
some great significance connected with miraculous(Isaiah 3:7) (Isaiah 6:10) (Isaiah 19:22) (Isaiah 30:26)
physical healing. All you need is enough faith, claim(Isaiah 53:5) (Isaiah 57:18, 19) (Isaiah 58:8)
that the stripes Yeshua took were for your bodilyWhen you read these verses, (and the verses
healing and you'll be healed. There are even somesurrounding them) it becomes apparent that Isaiah
who would go so far as to imply that Yeshuais only speaking about spiritual healing or "the
took 39 stripes and there are 39 main humanatonement for sin". When you read the rest of
physical diseases. So He took a stripe for eachthe verse, Peter is obviously speaking of the
and every disease, thus defeating all sickness ofsalvation of our souls and the atonement for sin.
mankind.(1 Peter 2:24) Peter had spent years with the
Check out what I found. First of all, there is noLord as an eye witness to many peoples' bodily
verse that states how many times Yeshua washealing. He was not referring to the physical in this
scourged. It was Paul who took the 39 lashes orcase, but to the spiritual.
"40 save 1", five different times! (2 Cor. 11:24)This was a letter of instruction, encouragement
This number was a Roman punishment upon aand admonition from Peter to fellow believers in
Roman citizen. There may have been no rulesAsia Minor. I doubt if Peter intended to have a
about how many lashes could be given to aportion of one of his sentences taken from its
non-Roman citizen.original context and turned into the magic
There are nine times in Isaiah that some form orincantation to motivate God into some form of
tense of the word "heal" is used. None of thesephysical body healing activity.
verses pertain to the healing of the physical body