Mark says in a couple of places, that if you have enough faith, your child will be healed. I think that's running a real number on parents.
And there are other parts of the Bible that says God’s will and all in good time.
This was a tricky one so I did some research before coming up with my view.
I was looking for passages and remembered Jesus talking about even a small amount of faith being able to move mountains and trees (example, Luke 17:6). If we're dealing in theology though, we can't take those passages in isolation to get an understanding, but rather look for all relevant passages to form a coherent view. Of course, an exception would be if Luke 17:6 used explicit exclusionary language, like saying faith
alone could move trees.
I also think reality comes into play here since it shows faith alone doesn't work when we have many devout Christians who were never healed, including the Apostle Paul himself (2 Corinthians 12:7-9)...
7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
Still, there are stories of Christian relics that are said to heal (Shroud of Turin?), and then there's the story of the woman who touched Jesus's robe and got healed (Mark 5:25-34). Jesus clearly said "her
faith made her well" (Mark 5:34). But I do wonder if God is implied in that passage since by definition faith is belief
in something (God, for instance). Wouldn't make sense to say her faith was in faith itself. Also, mentions that Jesus's power being involved Mark 5:30 which is something different than faith.
Mark 5:25-34 -
25 A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, 26 and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but instead had become worse— 27 after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind
Him and touched His cloak. 28 For she had been saying
to herself, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.” 29 And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 30 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that
power from Him had gone out, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?” 31 And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’” 32 And He looked around to see the woman who had done this. 33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And He said to her, “Daughter,
your faith has made you well; go in peace and be cured of your disease.”
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