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user posted image rAn unprecedented number of faith healings in Cleveland are taking place in area churches at a faster pace than ever before, NewsChannel5 reported. Ted Henry is sharing the stories of many Clevelanders who say they’ve been healed as a result of healing miracles. Those healed include friends, neighbors, prominent doctors, relatives, media personalities and even people from other states. What they have in common is that each of them has received some sort of physical transformation through the power of prayer. Liz Simmons finally saw one of the healers after more than 20 years of multiple sclerosis. "So I saw him the following week, and that week I was healed of the MS. I do not have MS anymore," Simmons said. Liz’s story is not unusual. For more than a decade now, a band of healers including a priest, nun and a lay couple come together to pray for the purpose of restoring sick people back to good health, Henry reported. The healings usually take place in catholic churches, but people of all faiths are welcome. Randy Zinn said what happens here is amazing. "I had a ruptured disc in my neck and I had been scheduled for surgery at the hospital," Zinn said. He never needed his surgery.

According to Henry, Zinn was healed spiritually by Dr. Issam Nemeh, one of the members of the healing team. "He said, 'Do you believe in God'? I said, 'I do.' He said, 'Do you believe that God could heal you'? I said, 'I could save you some time here, I believe in a God that could put man on earth, that allows the birds in the sky and who allows the grass to grow. Yes, I believe that all things are possible.' And he said, 'Well, this won’t take very long,'" Zinn said. In minutes, Zinn was healed, Henry said. These healers travel from church to church. No money is ever accepted. No one is ever refused.

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STIX
actually if our minds are capable of creating complex magnetic fields I doubt this isnt possible.
we dont understand our spitituality, so we must have faith that it is there for if it is and we ignore it then we are 100x worse off if it wasnt even there to begin with.
Scorpius
I've always thought it was some sort of sham on TV. I've never read a news report on it. You tend to roll your eyes on TV becuase people say that you shouldn't believe everything you see on. And it's not like our TV's is interactive and you can communicate to the cast and crew and ask more information about it unlike the internet. There is no hassle to critize a writer on the internet because your already on it--juss a click away, no need to write a letter by hand.

My Grandmother's cousin is very religious. She had breast cancer but I was told that she prayed everyday for 4-9 hours or something like that. Later on, it disappeared--miraculously cured. She's still alive to this day.
Kerkido
Blue-Scorpion, me too. My friend's grandmother had cancer, doctors told her she had less than 6 weeks. But through what seemed to have been a lot of prayer within her mormon family, she too was healed.
_hAiLO_
The story is very interesting laugh.gif . I think Jesus healed people too:

Luke 22:51--"And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. "

I think other people in the Bible healed too:

Acts 28:8--"And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. "
DarkSinister
I think it's more of a placebo type of thing. They think they're getting heal and that makes them get better. Also, i remember reading in my psychology book, being happy and lauging will help you heal faster.
whoa182
Think of how many people get prayed for and how many ppl die still, Probably less than 1 % would ever get healed on just prayer alone without medical help
Kerkido
QUOTE(whoa182 @ Feb 26 2005, 08:32 AM)
Think of how many people get prayed for and how many ppl die still,  Probably less than 1 % would ever get healed on just prayer alone without medical help
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That's somewhat true. A lot of these faithful prayerees (lol, that should be a word if it already isn't one!) always have answers for whether their prayers healed or whether their prayers 'helped them understand why who they're praying for must now leave for heaven'. I do wonder however, everybody that Jesus attempted to heal, were they healed? Or were they edited out from the Bible? I would hate to think that your 'less than 1% were healed on prayer alone without medical help' was the only part which was published in the Bible to accredit Jesus's name.
whoa182
There are so many factors that come into play with prayer healing and other types.

There was this kid and he had a brain tumor... His doctors said that he only had a few months to live at most, nothing they could do.

SO he imagined and dream that he was at war with this tumor, he made a story up in his head. Something like a star wars battle scenario, where all the good guys would attack the bad guys ( bad cells )

WIthin weeks the cancer totally diserpeared. True story aswell.

You see, our brain is very complicated and can do many things that we just dont understand yet...

prayer may work on some level, but is it spirtual related... I couldnt say, no1 can definitly say right now. SO much we have to learn yet about our world and us humans.
Scorpius
The only problem for some could be "false cancers"...

My Grandmother, who lives in California, had a biopsy done on one of her feet, and the doctor said she had cancer and that the only solution would be amputation. My dad freaked out and so did everyone else. She was really hesitant to have an amputation, but the doctor said he would have the surgery ready.

My grandmother, had to make sure it was cancer so she went to another doctor and they did a biopsy on her, and to her surprise there wasn't even a cancer cell insight. The previous doctor was dead wrong... I'm sure she could have sued them. She would have lossed her foot for no reason.

Some doctors are just too dumb. I don't know why that doctor got their degree.
Kerkido
Blue Scorpion
That's a very serious misdeed, I could never imagine something like that happening. Indeed, if I was informed that I had false-cancer, I would sue. Sue that unqualified son of a .
Scorpius
Too bad she's in California... and we're up here in Manitoba, Canada...

That incident happened a few months ago. I wonder if it's still a case the system would pursue. I'm guessin', as long as the evidence is there (ie. the false biopsy report and the correct report); it's still possible. blink.gif

Kerkido
QUOTE(Blue-Scorpion @ Mar 3 2005, 10:07 AM)
Too bad she's in California... and we're up here in Manitoba, Canada...
That incident happened a few months ago.  I wonder if it's still a case the system would pursue. I'm guessin', as long as the evidence is there (ie. the false biopsy report and the correct report); it's still possible.  blink.gif
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By all means, pursue. To pray for someone to recover, is just as powerful as telling them they have cancer. And because of the complexity of our brain, what the doctor says could have caused your grandmother to have developed cancer anyway based on what the doctor said.
poleshift
How about Lourdes, France?
Snowbaby
My mum used to go to a faith healer for help with a mobility illness she has. At the moment she has limited mobility. She said the lady who did the healing, would place her hand on the back of mum's neck. Mum said her neck would get very very hot indeed.

She said she felt it benefited her a bit. Unfortunately mum could not afford to carry on going as it was expensive. WHo knows.... if she had carried on, would it have helped long term?

I am a believer of this. I used to be very skeptical of it originally, but from mum's experience. i definately believe in healing powers.
ROGER
This is only barely on topic. A good friend of mine and I were enjoying a night time camp fire last summer, and talk turned to his job as Fire chief and Medic for our area ambulance. I have this thing about not being touched by others with out my concent. I explained that with some people I FEEL them like an electric current. Some are pleasant feelings, some very uncomfortable.
Any way he tells me that in some patients, he feels this also. And though there is no science behind it, the ones with the stronger feeling, charge, aurora , what ever responded to medical procedures faster, got better faster than one that didn't seem to have it.
I and guessing that this feeling may be tied in to TRUE Faith Healings, and that more research should be done in this area. Lets face it, this is all are ancestors had to work with 500 years ago.
poleshift
QUOTE(Snowbaby @ Mar 13 2005, 10:04 PM)
My mum used to go to a faith healer for help with a mobility illness she has. At the moment she has limited mobility. She said the lady who did the healing, would place her hand on the back of mum's neck. Mum said her neck would get very very hot indeed.

She said she felt it benefited her a bit. Unfortunately mum could not afford to carry on going as it was expensive. WHo knows.... if she had carried on, would it have helped long term?

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Suggest her to go to Lourdes, France. Maybe she will be surprised.
poleshift
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Still today, some 5,500,000 million pilgrims and visitors come to Lourdes from all over the world. Some are true believers, some are just curious. Many come to be healed; both physically and spiritually. The water of Lourdes has Our Lady's promise with it. Miracles happen every day at Lourdes, not always physical miraculous healings, but the miracles that occur at Lourdes every single day are the conversions of poor sinners.

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