An Abortion Gradient?

Once again, I am publishing material that I wrote for another message board or forum. I am probably going to do a lot more of this here at Bootcamp Planet.  I've been reluctant to do that in the past because I wanted my blog to be "purely original."  Pragmatically, that's not working; it just builds up a lot of drafts to edit and publish "someday."  
Below is a statement and my response that were part of a much larger discussion comparing present-day Western Planned Parenthood values with child sacrifices to Molech in the ancient near-east. 

It's easier to murder if the victim is dehumanized first-- or just silenced. That's why we have all the "debate" about whether "it's a mass of cells or a human life." Murder is murder, be it by gas chambers or by abortion "clinics"
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RE: "Murder is murder, be it by gas chambers or by abortion 'clinics'."
 Long, long ago, I conceded similar reasoning during a debate. Over the years, it has come back to niggle at me every now and then. If such a statement was entirely true, I don't think I would sporadically find the idea so peevish decades later. Perhaps I need to take some time and specifically, prayerfully research it so that I can have an answer that settles it for me.

But now, for the most part, I think Dante was on to something with his metaphor of rings of hell. Human judgment is largely limited to fruits of actions; occasionally we may get additional revelation if we are walking closely with the Lord. But God can see motivations, and for someone with that skill set, "murder is murder" would have "perceptible gradation," even though for us humans the whole concept of 'gradation' is imperceptibility of the change.

Well, that was my best run at where I am coming from when I say that I don't think 'murder is murder' in God's eyes. I think that He is willing to show far more grace to a scared little girl who knows and admits that she screwed up than He will toward PP executives who promote murdering other men's babies in exchange for a Lamborghini.

Do you believe it is always Gods will to heal?

That was The Question that I was asked this morning.

And since I already spent a good amount of time answering it, I decided to just make it into a blog post.
Here you go:

Ultimately, yes. Heath and prosperity, on Earth as it is in Heaven, is always God's will. And then comes the "but..."
I'm convinced that John the elder was reflecting the heart of God when he wrote to Gaius, "I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, 3 Jn 1:2." But there are too many examples of poor, sick Christians for this to be automatic. Clearly there are buggers in the fallen world, and they are individualized.

The Hyper-faith movement has done a lot of harm by promoting an accusation, "You don't have enough faith to be healed." If you listen to the teachings of Kenneth E Hagin, it is evident that he had a revelation of Mark 11:23-24 — that he had the ministry fruits to go with it. But by the second generation out (the students of the the people he trained), a twisting of his preaching had begun. What he'd taught as faith in Jesus that sprung from his personal relationship with Jesus, transmuted into faith in healing, and eventually there rose hyper-faithers who were promoting a full fledged lie. It was subtle at first, and unfortunately, the Christian-ish Glamor Media ran with "faith in healing" rather than distinguishing it from faith in The Healer.
 
At that point, a spiritual gateway opened which allowed many people to be robbed of the faith that they did have—they'd seen too many failures and became frustrared. Having done all they knew to do, the logical next step was to question God's will for healing.  But here, scripture defies logic: Scripture says to armor up and stand. "Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand, Ephesians 6:13."  Accordingly, we should be correcting for that and getting our focus back on what the blood of Jesus accomplished. 

There are three things that need to be fleshed out more if this were a "whole picture" blog post. (a) what the blood accomplished, (b) our position in Christ as a result, and (c) knowing how to hear the Holy Spirit. But this is a lightly edited answer to another guy's question, so some of the foundational stuff is left out.

In listening to actual testimonies of those who have received healing, we see some patterns, but no one-size-fits-all formulas. Like receiving salvation, healing is a cooperation-event between us and God.

My view on healing, to answer your question, is that everyone needs to search his/her own heart and work on this with the Lord. Some healing requires obedience, some takes forgiveness, some just drops in place during full-blown worship (in the presence of His glory where "darkness" must flee), some healing comes after intercession by others and/or united prayer of agreement, some by impartation (a spoken word, laying on of hands, anointing with oil, etc.), some by the casting out of demonic spirits, and sometimes we get serendipitous grace, either when the Father sees his kid struggling and fixes it for him or 'just because'! 
 
It is always God's will to heal, but our role in receiving seems to differ with the occasion.