It's simple enough for people to believe that God raised the dead, and it's simple enough to believe that God will raise the dead on some unknown future date, but it has been difficult for people to believe that God raises the dead (here and now). They believe that Yeshua (Jesus) went around preaching eternal life, even their children know John 3:16 by heart, but they do not believe that Yeshua was literal. Even though they believe that eternal life meant 'eternal life in the flesh' for Christ, the same is not true for everyone else. In reality, Yeshua preaching eternal life, and subsequently being raised from the dead, go hand in hand - he was literally telling people that God would save the faithful from death. Yeshua knew that God would save him from the grip of death - it was not difficult for him to believe God. It is difficult for you. You do not believe that God saves anyone from death - which is true salvation.
Just think about it - you believe God heals people from cancer or saves people from their crack addiction, but for what exactly? So that they can live for the next 5 years or so only to be struck down by some drunk driver or by the bullet of a brutal cop? Why would God save anyone if God's plan is for them to drop dead a short while after?
There is no mystery. When God heals my flesh, it is because it is God's intent for my flesh to go onward into eternity.
Christ understood this, even the author of the 16th Psalm understood this when they wrote: "Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. For You will not abandon my soul to the grave; nor will You allow me to undergo decay."
Believing God is required for salvation - but your belief must be founded on God's power and not simply on my words (nor words in some old book filled with ridiculous and cruel stories - the bible). The beginning of your faith is entirely up to God.
