(December 31, 2012 at 5:54 pm)FutureAndAHope Wrote: Prayer has worked for me on numerous occassions. See http://www.futureandahope.net for the recorded examples. As for placebo studies, you can't just get together a group of Christians and get them pray. This might sound boastful, but most Christians don't have the gift of healing, and many Christian people respected by community have little respect by God. Many mainstream faiths are full of powerless Christians with sin in their lives. God only allows the sinless, and faithful to perform miracles, and there are few Christians who fit that bill. I don't mind the idea of a study, but I would be very selective in who I chose to take part. There are plenty of examples of divine healing recorded see http://www.wcdn.org/wcdn_eng/case/divine_case_e.asp it records cases of divine healing. Just becasue a few studies have shown prayer to be ineffective does not mean prayer does not work, the way the studies are set up are flawed. Every christian probably believes God can heal, but only a select few can. You need to source people who have the gift. I know some who do have that gift, and they have even seen paralized people healed.
No paralyzed person has ever been faith healed. There is not one medical journal confirming this to have happened, ever.
Therefore you are either a) lying, or b) completely deluded.
Take your pick.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
