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RE: Effect of prayers on healing
April 3, 2020 at 4:26 pm
(April 3, 2020 at 2:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Please see Post #18 by Editz.
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RE: Effect of prayers on healing
April 6, 2020 at 11:55 am
Sorry, I should have specified CommonMan. It answers his question but he doesn't seem to have caught it.
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RE: Effect of prayers on healing
April 6, 2020 at 12:48 pm
When I pray for people they should be worried.
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RE: Effect of prayers on healing
April 6, 2020 at 2:47 pm
There's something that studies on intercessory prayer actually do show. Plenty of people get very worried when other people start praying for them, negatively impacting their recovery.
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