(January 10, 2018 at 11:02 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(January 10, 2018 at 10:40 pm)emjay Wrote: I don't get you Huggy. If you readily acknowledge the power of belief outside the context of your God, such as the placebo effect... where belief in any arbitrary deity or superstition has the same effects for believers, such as healing... how on earth do you conclude that any one of those beliefs - in this case the Christian God - is the cause? How do you not conclude that the common denominator is the power of the mind, rather than any particular belief?
Ok show me in any other religious text where it states that faith can heal.
Power of the mind? Is this power quantifiable?
I don't know what other religions have to say about it, but what does it matter if the Bible makes that observation of the human psyche? Surely it's saying faith in its claims specifically, not just faith in anything, can heal?
Quantifiable? I don't know. Psychology and neuroscience are ongoing... maybe these things will be fully understood, maybe they will not, but the point is, the common denominator is the mind.
