The Bible teaches repentance, and if you refuse to teach repentance to a sinner, then his blood is on your hands even if he would not have repented because of your preaching. Regardless of what would have happened if you had obeyed God, your dereliction of duty in itself is a sufficient basis for God to blame you for the sinner’s damnation. God himself explained this (Ezekiel 33:1-9). By the same principle, since the Bible teaches healing, if you refuse to teach healing to a sick person, then his death is on your hands even if he would not have believed or recovered. Your dereliction of duty in itself is a sufficient basis for God to blame you for the person’s death. The Bible teaches healing as explicitly as the forgiveness of sins, placing it on the same foundation of the nature of God and the atonement of Christ, and on top of that adding the sovereignty of God and the ministries of Spirit that would heal even many unbelievers who would never convert.
Cessationists are mass murderers. The self-appointed heresy hunters and cult watchers who undermine the doctrine of healing are mass murderers. All the people who fail to teach the promise and reality of healing as the Bible teaches it, as strongly as the Bible teaches it, are mass murderers. This includes all cessationists, because they condemn what God teaches about healing, but it also includes most of those who call themselves charismatics, because they remain hesitant and slothful about the doctrine. This is a direct application of a biblical principle. It involves no speculation, because it is irrelevant whether any person would have received healing, since the sin is in failing to tell people about healing and to pray for their healing. We must not suppose that their crime is only formal or figurative. The deaths that they cause are as physical as any murder committed with a gun or a knife. And God will judge.
Anyone who has the responsibility and opportunity to teach about Jesus Christ, but who does not teach that people can receive healing from God by faith, is a mass murderer. Anyone who undermines the doctrine is a bloody religionist who exploits people’s suffering to promote his theological bias. He is the worst kind of scum. How many thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon thousands have died because Christians refuse to teach the doctrine, and to teach it with complete certainty? Anyone who mentions abuse in order to discredit the doctrine condemns himself. The doctrine has been so undermined that it would take gargantuan effort to arrive at a point where widespread abuse would become a concern. For more than 1500 years, the abuse has been skepticism and opposition from those who claim to be Christians. If distortions have resulted in harm, then the solution is not to suppress the doctrine, but to advertise it even more, in order to spread a correct understanding. The self-righteous criticisms about those who teach biblical healing are only excuses to camouflage a damnable gospel of unbelief.
The Bible so clearly declares to you the doctrine of healing. You refuse to believe it, and you refuse to tell others about it. Then you persecute those who obey it. You have allowed people to remain in their pain. You have smiled with religious satisfaction as they agonized and perished. Like pagans without a revelation, you mutter “the will of God, the will of God,” even when the word of God commands you to tell them about miracle healing from Jesus Christ. You have killed so many suffering people. You murdered them. The word of God commands you to heal them by putting your hands on them and demanding healing to come in the name of Jesus. But you might as well have strangled them to death with those hands by your unbelief and false gospel. All this to defend your damnable religious heritage. All this so that you can feel like you have a superior theology, although it is a satanic systematic.
When God looks at you, he does not see the blood of Christ that cleanses from sin, but he sees the blood of the sick and suffering, the blood of the people that you have murdered. Their blood is all over your hands. All over your face. All over your Bibles! Then you lift up those same hands to worship God, and you tell him how you have defended your orthodoxy against the fanatics. “Oh Lord, look at these bloody hands. All those heretics who believed your promises and obeyed your commands, refusing to declare that they have expired, refusing to declare that you would break your covenant, and those that would have learned about your promises through them, I have killed with these hands. Ha! I killed them all, Lord! All those who taught the words of Jesus, those who followed his example of faith and compassion, and those who wanted to hear about him, I have slandered and destroyed. As my forefathers have done before me, I have murdered your people in your name.” Keep it up, Reverend! You will soon get that Evangelical award!
*Adapted from Vincent Cheung, “Cessationists as Mass Murderers“