18 Facts About Faith healing

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Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice.

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Unlike faith healing, advocates of spiritual healing make no attempt to seek divine intervention, instead believing in divine energy.

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Faith healing can be classified as a spiritual, supernatural, or paranormal topic, and, in some cases, belief in faith healing can be classified as magical thinking.

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Jesus' Faith healing acts are considered miraculous and spectacular due to the results being impossible or statistically improbable.

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Faith healing heals the Capernaum official's son, heals a paralytic by the pool in Bethsaida, healing a man born blind, and resurrecting Lazarus of Bethany.

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Accounts or references to Faith healing appear in the writings of many Ante Nicene Fathers, although many of these mentions are very general and do not include specifics.

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In 2000, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued "Instruction on prayers for healing" with specific norms about prayer meetings for obtaining healing, which presents the Catholic Church's doctrines of sickness and healing.

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Faith healing is reported by Catholics as the result of intercessory prayer to a saint or to a person with the gift of healing.

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Christian Science claims that Faith healing is possible through prayer based on an understanding of God and the underlying spiritual perfection of God's creation.

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Believers assert that faith healing makes no scientific claims and thus should be treated as a matter of faith that is not testable by science.

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Scientists and doctors generally find that faith healing lacks biological plausibility or epistemic warrant, which is one of the criteria used to judge whether clinical research is ethical and financially justified.

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Skeptics of faith healing offer primarily two explanations for anecdotes of cures or improvements, relieving any need to appeal to the supernatural.

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Christian theological criticism of faith healing broadly falls into two distinct levels of disagreement.

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The most common form of abuse is the view that since all illness is directly or indirectly attributable to the devil and his works, and since Christ by his cross has defeated the devil, and by his Spirit has given us the power to overcome him, healing is the inheritance right of all true Christians who call upon the Lord with genuine faith.

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Skeptics of faith healers point to fraudulent practices either in the healings themselves, or concurrent with the healing work supposedly taking place and claim that faith healing is a quack practice in which the "healers" use well known non-supernatural illusions to exploit credulous people in order to obtain their gratitude, confidence and money.

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James Randi's The Faith healing Healers investigates Christian evangelists such as Peter Popoff, who claimed to heal sick people on stage in front of an audience.

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TV personality Derren Brown produced a show on faith healing entitled Miracles for Sale which arguably exposed the art of faith healing as a scam.

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Certain approaches to faith healing are widely considered to be pseudoscientific, including those of Christian Science, voodoo, and Spiritualism.

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