Faith Healing – Coincidence?
The article at http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2009/09/religion-enhances-health-hope-hype-or-both-/1#Close hints to the fact that religion enhances health.
Prayer and religion are complementary to medicine. Since part of your person is your spirit, you have to feed it as well in order to stay healthy. You feed your body, daily, with physical food, and you should feed your spirit as well.
Here are the 4 headings given in the article and the way I would answer them:
“That church attendance makes you healthier. It may or it may be the flip side, that social isolation is what helps kill you.”
Going to church is feeding your spirit. You need to feed this part of you. Clean living, not smoking or drinking, not sleeping around, and not practicing any other harmful behaviors, following what the Bible teaches, keeps you alive longer.
Staying alone, keeps you focused on your own problems. Get out and help someone else. Quit dwelling on your own issues.
“That meditation reduces stress and enhances health.”
Meditation helps your belief. It helps you to escape your current situation to a more perfect scenario. It helps you to focus on someone bigger than your situation, who can actually help you.
“That faith heals.”
Your faith is an important part of your physical healing. You have to have hope in a hopeless situation You have to believe that your healing is possible. Doctors and medicine have limitations, but there is a God who knows no limits.
“That prayer works.”
Your prayers must be directed to one who has the power to heal. The others who are praying for you must be praying as well to someone that can actually do the healing.
God heard the prayers of those who were praying for me, and I knew that I was going to get out of that bed somehow, and God provided for my healing.
What do you think? Faith is an asset in healing and your health, or religion is just an irrelevant part of your health, and has nothing to do with your healing?
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Erik Loebl
