From: Richardleeevange@aol.com

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:05:53

To: WalterMartin@mail.serve.com

Subject: Re: WM: Trials and tribulations 2

Dear Gerald,

I'm glad that you are weighing in on the old WOF controversy. Much bad exegesis on Isaiah 53:4,5 is responsible for the "Healing Guaranteed in the Atonement" error, and even Pentecostals like myself and Gordon Fee in his "Disease of the Health and Wealth Gospel" documents just how this passage cannot mean this. In fact Matthew 8 says that Isaiah 53:4,5 was fulfilled in Jesus' HEALING MINISTRY, not at the whipping post where he "bore strips on his back." Have you heard of the "whipping post healing theory" before? All WOF'ers teach it, and it is quite erroneous. The word translated "stripes" in KJV can also mean "wounds." Therefore, this has nothing to do with stripes on Jesus' back meant for our physical healing! Both Martin and Hanegraaff have done stellar jobs refuting that teaching, and I can't add to it. Healing I believe is a BENEFIT of Christ's atonement, but not a guarantee. This is extremely flawed Pentecostal exegesis which many Pentecostal scholars had the sense to dispense with.

Richard Lee