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Originally Posted by CraigD
When a faith healer pronounces a person with Crohn's disease, cancer, or any other serious illness cured, there is a risk that that person will not seek or accept conventional medical treatment, allowing their disease to seriously injure or kill them.
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Though I agree with Craig that serious negligence on the part of
some "faith healers" should be dealt with legally, and perhaps harshly, I don't believe that faith healing is
all bogus, anymore then I believe
all faith healers are careless and wreckless with their intent or
treatments. Faith/hope healing should compliment conventional medical treatment, if for any reason, to uplift and encourage someone.
Faith/hope is a powerful healer, as is the placebo effect. Ask any doctor working in Oncology. There has literally been hundreds of people pronounced terminal that were sent off to live what was left of their lives, only to show up back in the doctors office 1, 6, and 20 years later completely cancer-free.
Doctors like to call this "spontaneous healing".
But what is
spontaneous healing?
Spontaneous: coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned (of natural phenomena) arising from internal forces or causes; developing without
apparent external influence, force, cause, or treatment
FAITH: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
HOPE: To look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence.
To believe, desire, or trust.
What you have to understand is that there is a biology of the individual as well as a biology of the disease, each affecting the other.
A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief and the belief then becomes biology.
This has been proven throughout Psychoneuroimmunology studies.
In most cases, "Faith healers" work through this same logic, as well as the calling of a higher power if you will....Be it placebo or divine intervention, it can and does work thousands of times a year across the world.
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If we had no faith/hope—for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter—we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn’t matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
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