One can look at the human body mechanistically and realize what an amazing machine the human body is. It is the only machine that can repair itself. Or one can look at man as an embodied spirit and see what fantastic places the human mind can go to or what wonderful dreams it can conjure unshackled from the physical limits of the body. But man is both body and spirit. A spirit burdened by worries and anxieties often results in a body afflicted by physical maladies. A lethargic body often results in a spirit given in to bouts of depression. When Christ healed people, he healed both their bodies and their spirits.
When they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.’ Mark 2:1-5