@Romeo Fabulini,
Romeo Fabulini wrote:
Quote:Cicerone said: Research at Stanford has shown that prayer does not work when prayers are said by second or third parties - families or friends. It works when the individual believes in the power of prayer, because the mind can influence results.
Good point, negative vibes can scupper "prayer power", which is why the bible tells us to stay well clear of unbelievers-
"Don't yoke yourself with unbelievers,for what do light and darkness have in common?" (2 Cor 6:14)
"Don't let unbelievers into your house or bid them God speed" (2 John 1:10 KJV)
"Bad company corrupts good character" (1 Cor 15:33)
A good example is when Jesus went to bring that little girl back to life, he had to kick the scoffers out of the room first, and only let her parents and some of his disciples stay before he could bring her back-
Mark ch 5 - "He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep." But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!" )
Faith-Healing Parents Jailed After Second Child’s Death
http://time.com/8750/faith-healing-parents-jailed-after-second-childs-death/
No doubters were in the room when these two children died.
God must have been preoccupied at the time...
While doctors would have also doubted this faith healing (any sane person would) had the power to save.
The Bible and its faith cost the lives of these two children and we are supposed to believe Christians are pro-life?
This is not an isolated incident. Prayers for healing DO NOT WORK they may give people a warm fuzzy feeling inside but so does positive thinking and people still die with that too. Medicine is the only PROVEN course of remedy in most ALL cases, get that though your thick numbs-scull head.
Call someone anti-Christ for seeking a treatment that actually works, fine with me.
Call someone a good Christians for letting children die like this? God is the breath of life but he let these children suffocate in the presence of his own avid believers.
Before a cure is found it is the devil that cause the illness until insulin or some other treatment is discovered then it is God who gave scientists the cure... Ridiculous!
It wasn't belief in God that found the cure... It was belief in medicine and the dedication to discover it in spite of all the rank religious mumbo jumbo spread around by people like you Rom.
Do you belong in jail for supplanting false medical advice like these parents?
You are spreading LIES...
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie...
Really?
