Is a failure to be healed a failure of faith?
InferredNo single verse settles it; the conclusion is assembled across texts and leans one way.
No, the text does not teach that failing to be healed means failing in faith. The evidence leans the other way: Jesus explicitly denies the sin/faith-failure-causes-illness equation (John 9:3), Paul was not healed despite faithful prayer (2 Corinthians 12:9), and the faith James 5:15 places on the prayer belongs grammatically to the praying elders, not the sick person.
No single verse states "unhealed = faithless," and multiple texts from Jesus' own mouth and from apostolic testimony directly contradict that equation. The conclusion that failure to be healed is not a failure of faith is assembled across these texts and leans clearly in one direction, but it is assembled, hence INFERRED rather than a single direct statement.
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