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Faith Healing
"Smack.........smack! Healed, I say, Healed!." "Alleluia! You are healed." This may sound like a line right out of the Jesus Christ Superstar script, but it isn't. This, or something that sounds closely like it can be heard on stages and auditoriums across the world. It is the sound of people being "cured" by self-proclaimed healers of God. However, can any credibility be lent to these people who only seem to be able to heal what are called "invisible ailments"like a limp or back pain. Or is it just a huge scam? It seems that if God was going to bestow his powers on man, he would have given them to some less-shady individuals.
Faith healing have two central idea associated with it, that belief and trust in God can heal worldly ailments, and that there is a connection between physical health and spiritual well- being. In Matthew 8:2-3, Jesus is described healing a leper, "Behold a leper came and worshiped Him, sang, ‘Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.' Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, ‘I am willing; be cleansed.' And the leper departed. And over the next several weeks his symptoms began to disappear." Oftentimes, if a person is not healed, then the blame is placed on them for "no
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