That's a circular argument. Nice and tight, but still circular.
If God communicates His grace through healing oil or through the laying on of hands, a change is made to the person. He receives grace.
I don't see why a limit is put on how you classify God working in this way.
Yes, Jesus forgave the lame man his sins, but He also healed his infirmity.
Fine. But there is no "Do this" type of command by which Christ instituted it for all times in the Church.
Yes, Jesus forgave the lame man his sins, but He also healed his infirmity.
Certainly healing/salvation are related concepts (sozo, soteria in the NT Greek). Christ is the Savior of both body and soul. And the Sacraments, Holy Baptism and Holy Communion, thus are applied to the body and benefit both body and soul. We call the Eucharist, for example, "the medicine of immortality." By conferring the forgiveness of sins, they therefore promise the redemption of the body, the resurrection of the flesh--the ultimate healing--at the Last Day. "For where there is the forgiveness of sins, there is also life and salvation" (Small Catechism).