RE: Help: jumped on for seeking scientific proof of spiritual healing
February 17, 2015 at 3:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2015 at 3:12 pm by bennyboy.)
Emily, even if you accept that being homosexual is a sickness, I don't think there's any evidence that "healing," spiritual or otherwise, can cure it. When "Are you still gay?" is the only criterion for determining whether someone is really gay, then it's not very meaningful.
I don't know much about the research, but I'm pretty sure that I've seen, in my lifetime, assertions that faith can contribute to healing of other types, and then more recently that in fact it does not, and then in the past few years that expectations of healing in response to prayer actually cause stress to patients with no beneficial effects at all. But if you really want to talk about scientific proof, there HAVE already been studies. Why don't you google them, and link a few results?
I don't know much about the research, but I'm pretty sure that I've seen, in my lifetime, assertions that faith can contribute to healing of other types, and then more recently that in fact it does not, and then in the past few years that expectations of healing in response to prayer actually cause stress to patients with no beneficial effects at all. But if you really want to talk about scientific proof, there HAVE already been studies. Why don't you google them, and link a few results?
