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johnnyt3000
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Whenever someone gets sick, there are people praying for that person, while at the same time that person is probably receiving medicine. So what is it that is healing the person?
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tawny
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For me, I feel it’s both. God has allowed for the discovery & development of such medicines to cure.
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kmuestwin
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It isn’t a question of either/or.
It’s more of a both/and relationship.
Prayer is a powerful tool but it would be imprudent to rely only on prayer when medicine has been given to us by a loving and knowing God. Medicine is a good tool as well but it does nothing for the state of the soul. A human being is a unity of body and soul. It is important to treat both the physical and the spiritual.
It’s more of a both/and relationship.
Prayer is a powerful tool but it would be imprudent to rely only on prayer when medicine has been given to us by a loving and knowing God. Medicine is a good tool as well but it does nothing for the state of the soul. A human being is a unity of body and soul. It is important to treat both the physical and the spiritual.
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Zachary
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Gas only works in your car if you also have someone to push the gas pedal 
(ok, not exactly the same, but it’s what popped into my head)
(ok, not exactly the same, but it’s what popped into my head)
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Iron_Donkey
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This would be a great place for that “why not both?” thing that floated around the internet for a while.
Seriously though, natural processses and acts of God are not wholly separate, since the natural processes depend on God to exist and work. It could be that there is success by natural processes because God decided to make it so, and that He let that success (or degree of success) be contingent on prayers. Or it could easily be that the result (whether success or failure of the treatement) would be the same whether people were praying or not. And of course, unless we recieve a direct message from God, which doesn’t happen all that often, it would be near impossible to determine if the success of a medicine that has a non-100% success rate involved our prayers or not.
And of course there are documented cases of recovery that medicine can’t explain (approximately two for every saint cannonized since that requirement was put in place). So the short answer is that in all likelihood, it appears that sometimes it’s one, sometimes it’s the other, and sometimes it’s a combination of the two.
Seriously though, natural processses and acts of God are not wholly separate, since the natural processes depend on God to exist and work. It could be that there is success by natural processes because God decided to make it so, and that He let that success (or degree of success) be contingent on prayers. Or it could easily be that the result (whether success or failure of the treatement) would be the same whether people were praying or not. And of course, unless we recieve a direct message from God, which doesn’t happen all that often, it would be near impossible to determine if the success of a medicine that has a non-100% success rate involved our prayers or not.
And of course there are documented cases of recovery that medicine can’t explain (approximately two for every saint cannonized since that requirement was put in place). So the short answer is that in all likelihood, it appears that sometimes it’s one, sometimes it’s the other, and sometimes it’s a combination of the two.
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Auntie_A
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Jesus healed with his hands but he also used mud and herbs. Since God gave us all of these, why not use them as we see fit and pray for healing?
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johnnyt3000
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When did Jesus use mud and herbs?
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spiderweb
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In John 9:6 Jesus used dirt and spit to make “clay” to heal the blind man’s eyes. Many translations use the word “mud” instead of clay. I don’t know what Auntie A was referring to about the “herbs”.
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johnnyt3000
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That’s interesting, I didn’t know that, thank you:thumbsup:
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