"Frost sees all healing as coming from
God. Miraculous indicates that healing
takes place apart from means. He is
anxious to "hold all truth in careful
equipoise" and writes "in constant
prayer".
"He presents five cases of healing in
which he was involved and parallels
them with five cases where the same
conditions obtained but healing did not
occur. That drove him to bring his
belief to the test of the Word of God.
"He looks carefully at the teaching of
those who claim that the wholeness of
salvation includes physical healing for
all as well as spiritual. He examines
the texts they use and points out where
they appear to err, weighing up the
arguments for inevitable healing. He
sees the Epistle of James as being
written to an emerging Jewish Christian
church, "spiritually undeveloped", and
the instructions in chapter five
permissive rather than mandatory.
"The post-Resurrection promises apply
to the apostles only. Miracles were to
provide indisputable evidence that
Jesus was the Messiah more than an
expression of deep compassion, though
they were that as well.
"Among his general conclusions he makes
it clear that Christ heals today but
exercises His own loving sovereignty in
so doing - "Christ will choose health,
strength and length of days...the saint
is ever to remain submissive to God's
will whatever this may mean".
The book ends with a moving testimony
of healing within his own family."
Taken from a review by Evangelism
magazine.