Note: This post contains a public book review. It is cited here for educational purposes and shared anonymously to demonstrate how easily man’s philosophies and emotion can deceive Christians. This is not a personal attack, but an example of how reasoning that sounds compassionate can contradict the truth of God’s Word. Readers are encouraged to test every belief by the Word of God (Acts 17:11).
This is written out of love. For the people who are suffering and for the truth that sets them free. When I speak against “autism” or any disorder, I am not speaking against individuals who carry that diagnosis. I am speaking against the sickness itself, the bondage that steals, kills, and destroys. Jesus healed people because He loved them; He always separated the person from the affliction. That is the heart behind everything here.
As the parent of an Autistic child I am horrified. What happened to the belief in being “fearfully and wonderfully made?”
Here’s a brief excerpt from my book, No! God Didn’t Give You a Child with Autism: He Gave You Victory Over Autism Through the Power of the Word which covers this topic based upon the Word, not man’s opinions or how one feels or identifies…
Excerpt from Chapter 4: Illuminating Psalm 139…
“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works.” Psalm 139:13-14
So, we know that Psalm 139 was a Psalm of David.
In Psalm 139:13, he acknowledged God’s might and power by declaring Him as the One who knitted his body together in all its great complexity in his mother’s womb.
We know by context of scripture that David was strong and healthy:
- “So, he sent and brought him in. Now he [David] was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” (1 Samuel 16:12).
- “Moreover, David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine,” (1 Samuel 17:37).
The Word describes Davis a healthy and strong in body and mind. He fought many battles as a warrior king, leapt and worshiped and danced before the Lord with all his might, he played music, etc.
Therefore when David, the one who took down Goliath in the name of the Lord, praised God for being fearfully and wonderfully made, he was referring to being strong and healthy, not disabled or his mind captive by mental disorders. He was NOT applying fearfully and wonderfully made to a sick, unhealthy body.
To apply “fearfully and wonderfully made” to someone whose body and/or mind is under enemy attack with sickness or in a state of arrested development is deception and using the verse out of context, just as Satan inspired (John 10:10; Acts 10:38).
When Jesus encountered the man born blind or any who were disabled and sick, did He quote Psalm 139 and refer to them as fearfully and wonderfully made as they were? Never! He destroyed the conditions as works of the devil and healed them to wholeness to make their health line up with His will: fearfully and wonderfully made.
When the apostles encountered those born lame and crippled (Acts 3 and 14), did they inappropriately quote Psalm 139 “fearfully and wonderfully made” over them and leave them bound and lame? No! They healed them as Jesus taught them to and consistently demonstrated and as the Word clearly teaches, destroying what God defines as “works of the devil” (1 John 3:8).
Sadly, many Christians have fallen for Satan’s redefinition schemes, calling what is good evil and evil good.
God calls healing good and sickness oppression of the devil (Acts 10:38). Let’s not reverse the two as many denominations who preach a different, false gospel do.
We don’t walk by what the world believes or how some people feel. We walk by the Word alone and define ALL things as the Word does.
Here’s a list of key passages where Jesus and the apostles healed people with disabilities, paralysis, blindness, deafness, withered limbs, or mental torment, demonstrating that God’s will is to heal and restore, not leave anyone bound.
1. Jesus Healed the Lame and Paralyzed
- Matthew 9:1–8 — Jesus heals the paralytic lowered through the roof: “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
- John 5:1–9 — The man at the pool of Bethesda, crippled 38 years: “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”
- Luke 5:17–26 — Paralyzed man healed; the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
- Matthew 15:30–31 — “Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them.”
- Matthew 11:4–5 — Jesus declares His works fulfill prophecy: “The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”
2. Jesus Healed Birth Defects and Those Born Disabled
- John 9:1–7 — The man “blind from birth.” Jesus said, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.”
- Matthew 12:10–13 — The man with the withered hand: “Stretch out your hand.” It was “restored as whole as the other.”
- Luke 13:11–16 — The woman “bent over and could in no way raise herself up.” Jesus said, “Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” (This shows who caused her condition — Satan — and God’s will to loose her.)
3. Jesus Restored Mental Soundness
- Mark 5:1–15 — The man with Legion: once tormented, cutting himself/self-injuring, living among tombs. After Jesus cast out the unclean spirits, he was seen “sitting and clothed and in his right mind.”
- Matthew 17:14–18 — Jesus rebuked a mute and epileptic spirit that caused seizures and self-harm; the child was healed instantly from being non-verbal, etc.
- Acts 10:38 — “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.”
4. The Apostles Continued Healing the Disabled
- Acts 3:1–8 — The man lame from his mother’s womb at the temple gate. Peter said, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” Immediately he was healed.
- Acts 8:6–8 — Philip in Samaria: “For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many… and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.”
- Acts 14:8–10 — In Lystra, a man “impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.” Paul perceived faith in him, said, “Stand upright on your feet!” and he leaped and walked.
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