Faith healing: what you need to know

by kumar 2009



Faith healing is a very complicated subject. When you really look at the topics its talking about healing carried out because of your faith. That means if you have faith you will be healed but what of those people who do not have faith but are still healed?

We do know that the process of healing that takes place because of a combination of faith and healing can be attributed to a supernatural reason called as faith healing and there is not much medicine involved in the process.

There can be a strong Christian link associated with the miracles or healings that take place. But almost all religions have a strong faith healing branch where you will have to deal with people and healers who heal with different techniques like pranic healing, crystal healing, and reiki too.

Most people who believe in the process of faith healers are also people who believe in the occult and how it works. You will be able to find that Christians who read the bible have a strong inclination to believe in miracles and will be willing to follow preachers and faith healers too.

This is because the bible is filled with stories about faith healers and prophets who used to heal by faith healing in the same manner and who are now revered for being saints. There is also a separate branch of Christians who believe that the bible with heal and there is no need to resort to medical science to treat sickness and faith healing will work to treat them if they are sick.

Faith healing is not all bad though even though there have been cases of parents who have been arrested for believing that sick children will be cured by god. This amounts to medical negligence but there are several legitimate healers who have healed people and who are still around working their miracles on people all through the ages. There can also be a level of spiritual abuse too where you will find that some charlatans will propose faith healing only in an effort to cheat people of their hard earned money by exploiting their faith.

Apart from charlatans, there are also godmen in nearly every religion and cults that have sprung up around as single charismatic leaders who claim to be direct channels to God because of their faith. This direct channeling of the Holy Spirit also gets them the gift of healing although there can be no scientific proof to back this up. You will also find that cults and such believers will not allow doctors to treat their sick people and they will not allow the use of medicines and blood transfusions because of their faith.

But you cannot mock anyone's faith. There have been cases where people have actually recovered from severe sickness simply because of their meditation and process of prayer to heal themselves. We still don't know how they work but for some people, prayer can actually work as a placebo reducing pain and causing healing by soothing the body and the mind. This too can be called as faith healing.

Besides the world is filled with lots of things that we don't understand...faith healing could just be one of them!


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