If the Bible speaks of faith healing, why does not work?

[NotWorthy]

Regarding those who are looking for miracles, how did it help the Israelites in the desert? Did it strengthen their faith?

 

[06convert]

IOW - any disappointment based on having trusted God, can be explained away. That’s unconvincing - & anyone could give that same explanation for the failure of his gods to live up to their billing. Why does Isis not heal her worshippers, or Baal his ? Because they are great gods, who know better than their worshippers what is best for those worshippers,despite appearances. Result: Isis, Baal, god-or-goddess-of-whatever-name is a great & good deity who must still be trusted. ​

Doctors heal by the grace of the gods Ninazu & Asklepios, among others: there is no way to disprove the healing power of either; it is mere bias that encourages us to imagine that our own god is responsible for healing anything. We’ve heard of ours - but that proves nothing; he could be a very minor deity, & the history of his worshippers certainly fits this possibility: a really great god would be able to take much better care of them; but his are slaughtered like cattle. Prayer to a can of beer & prayer to the Jewish-Christian deity would have the same results - except that one can enjoy the beer in the can; so prayer to a can of beer is actually superior to prayer to the Jewish-Christian deity: praying to the J-CD has no effects at all. Enjoying a beer does.

To me it matters very little if someone is miraculously healed and they give their credit to Ninazu, Asklepios, Isis, or Baal. Likewise, the same person would care very little that I would give the credit to God. We each believe what we believe. The fact of the matter is some people are healed by something outside of normal human intervention. Someone has it right, personally I believe, I do. Someone else may think different.

Furthermore there are people that are in fact not physically healed in any way shape or form regardless of the God they pray to.

Why is that? The fact that people do get healed suggest there is some outside force. So there must be some reason this outside force doesn’t respond to certain people. Certainly not through inability of the outside force, but by the force choosing not to intercede. We can only assume that the reason the force doesn’t intercede is because the force is allowing some greater good.

I guess I’m not seeing what the point of this thread is? Are you saying people can’t be healed by prayer? The topic asked why it doesn’t work, but with there being many healing accounts that have no other explanation it certainly seems to work. Regardless of what the healed individual’s beliefs are/were…