Below is an interview with a Medical Doctor, Dr. Wagenaar.  The subject of the interview is his medical opinion and answers to questions with regards to Faith and Divine Healing verses medicine. Does he witness miracles of divine healing in his medical position and are there explanations for these miracles.

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

Dr. Wagenaar, will you tell us what your position is in the field of science?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar:: 

"I have been medical superintendent in the Orchidee Hospital, Hilversum, for the last six years. Before that I was a family doctor for 23 years in Dordrecht."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar:  

Do you believe in miracles of healing?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"Of course! In my practice as a family doctor I have seen many miracles take place."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

When is healing a miracle?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"When it is not the result of medical treatment."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

Can a miracle not be explained away psychologically?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"No, that is not to be thought of. Just as you cannot explain away the miracles of the New Testament!

Every physician knows that spontaneous miracles do occur. You will be interested to know that spontaneous hearings have even been reported in patients who suffer from cancer. This has been publicized several times in medical journals. Medical science has admitted that miracles do occur after the prayer of faith."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

You said that you have seen miracles occur in your practice. Could you give us an example?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"Yes, in Dordrecht I had a very busy practice. A family doctor in the course of his practice meets many people who are in urgent need of medical help and the doctor does all he can to help them.

I will tell you about one patient. He used to play music in bars and was inclined to treat life lightly. He needed an operation and I gave him a card for the hospital. But before he was to be operated on I asked him to go with me to one of Ev. Johan Maasbach's big meetings. He agreed and, during the meeting, concentrated on God. When he went later to check in for the operation the surgeon said, You can go home, we are not going to operate on you, you are totally healed!"

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

Have you advised other people too,  to go to Johan Maasbach's meetings?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar:

"Yes, many!  When people come to see him, as a doctor, generally after an introductory talk and often after I have spoken to one of the elders of the church; I asked the elder to visit my patient and, so to speak, break the ice. I know that Br. Maasbach sends the patient on to the Heavenly Doctor who can do more than all the branches of science combined.

Over and above those I have mentioned I have sent many others to Br. Maasbach after they had been to consult me. I have seen them saved in the meeting and healed as well. I am so glad that in this time when one church after another is being broken down there are still people who let their voices be heard more than ever. We urgently need more men like Johan Maasbach.

He is a man who has preached for many years that sickness usually comes from within - from the heart of man - and is often the result of hate, envy, grudges and bitterness. Now medical science too admits that many diseases are a result of inner tensions!"

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

You believe then that Br. Maasbach is not being medically irresponsible in what he preaches?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"No indeed! He preaches that people who come forward for healing must bring not only their sins but also their cares and all their inner problems to God. That is a healing truth. That is biblical truth."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

How did you yourself come to faith in Christ?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"I will tell you! When I was a young man of 23 1 almost drowned. I was trying to save a woman who had fallen into the water and it nearly resulted in my own death. However, after fighting for my life and finally reaching dry land, I was a new man. I knew that I had reached a spiritual turning point. God had let me live!"

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

What do you think about certain doctors who have seen miracles with their own eyes and still refuse to believe?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"I have met people who have had their healing confirmed by many people and who afterwards went to various doctors to demonstrate their healing only to be rejected by the doctors. I must assume that these doctors are totally blind to God's existence.

This is not however a problem peculiar to medical science; you know as well as I do that many ministers, preachers and priests; are just as blind to the message of divine heating."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

Doctor, do you often speak to your patients about faith in Jesus Christ?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"I always do so when I feel so guided. When you know as a doctor that medically speaking, there is no cure possible then - at least this is how it is for me - you can only speak a positive word, the Word of God.

I have personally led several people who were ill to the through inner tensions to the Lord. Only He, Jesus Christ, can give that desperately needed rest."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

Do you think that later a medical cure may be found for certain illnesses which can now only be cured by a miracle?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"If I think of cancer, I know that man is hard at work to find a cure. This is the prediction and hope of everyone working in that field. However they have not yet found a cure. And should a medical cure be found there will still be other incurable illnesses..."

Question to Doctor Wagenaar: 

Finally doctor, do you consider that personal faith in Jesus Christ is of importance to science?

Answer from Doctor Wagenaar: 

"Very important!! You know that science has gone out on a limb in believing that man is descended from apes. Science is still trying to find the missing link!! The friction between faith and science is that when man comes to faith he can no longer accept such theories as that of evolution.

Faith in Jesus Christ is of the utmost importance for all, including those engaged in the pursuit of scientific knowledge."

"... and with His stripes we were healed." Isaiah 53:4-5

LIST  OF TOPICS