If you were blind and then could see or couldn't walk and suddenly could walk would you believe that God was real. What if a Christian prayed for you and you had a sickness removed from your body. Would you believe?
2007-08-20 11:02:08 · 22 answers · asked by STJC 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
If you have evidence for it, then feel free to show me, if not then why should I take your word for it over a skeptic's?
2007-08-20 11:05:26 · answer #1 · answered by 8theist 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Great hypothetical question. Since there is no concrete evidence of that ever happening, it will stay hypothetical.
I suppose it is very possible that people have recovered from serious illness after others have prayed for them. There are countless times they have just died.
Of course, there are also countless people who have not been prayed for who have had amazing recoveries from serious illness. But just as many have just died.
"Healing" can occur in what appears to be a spontaneous fashion, but it depends on the strain of the illness, your personal body chemistry, your general health, your genes and perhaps just good old fashioned random luck.
2007-08-20 11:08:52 · answer #2 · answered by BAL 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There's a long history of fraud in miracle healings, so I would be particularly skeptical.
Add to that the psychological element. The brain can sometimes work wonders in healing through such things as the placebo effect. So I would be wary.
If there were sufficient replicable, objectively verifiable evidence of healing (growing amputees' limbs back, for instance) then I would have to consider the argument. So far there's been no such evidence to overcome my skepticism. All the really good stories I've heard (such as fillings turned to gold) have turned out to be frauds.
2007-08-20 11:12:26 · answer #3 · answered by thatguyjoe 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If it was truly documented, and not pure story telling and hype, I would definitely love to look into it.
Its been my experience as a former born again, that most of the the healings don't 'stick' for some reason, and that the really miraculous stuff, only happens in third world countries where there is no scientific documentation.
The problems with seeking signs from God, is that some people are so desperate for them, that they justify lies and tend not to do research into the stories they help spread.
2007-08-20 11:06:21 · answer #4 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
those that have been documented have additionally been disproved, from what I even have study. Evangelists have been caught utilizing on the spot earpieces, and being fed tips from greeters. Say I walk in to the revival, hoping to get healed of my kidney ailment. A smiling handsome guy greets me and welcomes me. As he leads me to my seat, he asks in a coupon-chatty way, what brings me to the revival and that i say I even have lupus, an vehicle-immune arthritic ailment. i do no longer see the microphone clipped to his lapel, yet Brother Joe-Bob hears each little thing I say. Then, for the period of the therapeutic provider, Bro. J-B claims that "gawd" is telling him that there is a guy interior the objective audience with lupus and God needs him healed. etc. An Easter Orthodox church here in Texas became caught presently too, whilst the government began investigating the "miracle" of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who became crying actual tears. They took samples of the tears, examined them, and located that they've been cooking oil. They set up cameras and caught a monk utilizing the cooking oil with a drugs dropper. those are only 2 i've got heard approximately and that i do no longer pass out of my thank you to look those issues up. i'm specific there are various extra that under no circumstances make it to the newspapers or internet.
2016-10-08 22:16:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. My atheist friend was healed of cancer (without treatments) because she willed herself to believe. She just believed she didn't have cancer anymore and it actually worked. The power of mind/body connections is very strong.
I don't doubt people get healed but those who are healed are of all different religions and some, no religion at all. I have read many articles on how physics can explain healings. It's complicated to explain here but healings occur quite often without a belief in a god or religion.
2007-08-20 11:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by spike_is_my_evil_vampire 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have seen this happen with my own eyes. A little boy had an incureable disorder. His parents were told he would not live past his 2nd birthday. The Prayer group I belonged to meet once a week to pray over this boy and annoint him with Oil. When His Parents took him for his annual check up after his 2nd birthday, His Doctors were amazed to find no trace of this disorder in his system. This little boy is now a happy 8yr old.
Miracles Do Happen
2007-08-20 11:08:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It depends.
Give an example of someone cured that:
Did not go into remission.
Was well documented before and after.
Had a disease with a single possible outcome.
Or a 'healer' that has a higher success rate than a placebo.
Also why does God hate amputees so much that he has never allowed one to be 'cured'?
2007-08-20 11:08:00 · answer #8 · answered by Simon T 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I saw an amputee immediately grow new limbs in front of my eyes, then I'd believe.
If it was just "my back pain is gone", then no. In order to buy that the blind have been cured, I'd need to know the cause of the blindness in the first place.
2007-08-20 11:11:26 · answer #9 · answered by Jess H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. I have these things called white blood cells (you actually have them too!) They are very good at their job, which is healing your body of illnesses.
And I don't believe what goes on in those churches...I think they have a lot of actors.
2007-08-20 11:06:49 · answer #10 · answered by KS 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋