On Apr 20, 6:17=A0pm, "Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAM...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Rod wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Faith healing is bull, period.
> > =A0 It doesn't happen !
>
> I disagree.
>
> Faith healing happens all the time.
>
> Mostly, I suspect its just the 'placebo effect'; the mind having been
> convinced via faith (in what seems fairly irrelevant) that the body will
b=
e
> healed then goes ahead and does 'mind magic' to expidite the healing.
The
> brain is a strange device.
>
> However, there are 'miracles' out there - of cancers going into
remission
> for no understandable reason, for example. Perhaps these 'miracles' are
> simply things we don't understand yet - but 'faith' is about things we
don=
't
> understand anyway.
>
> Yowie
I confess that I am so old-fa****oned that I sometimes fail to get
on the wavelength of non-Christians like Rodney and speak their
language. However, I won't compromise my unusual approach to
the Christian faith.
Here's how I come down on the matter of faith healing. I say
that in the NT all miracles of healing are actually political
conversions. I fully realize that this is an extremely radical
position of bible interpretation but I have a right to it thanks
to Martin Luther and his historic split with the Catholics.
Also, I say that true faith healing exists in modern times; so,
on this point I agree with Yowie.
David
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