Faith Healing and its Authenticity
84 percent of the world’s population has a faith. Of those who believe, 32 percent is Christian, 23 percent is Muslim, 15 percent is Hindu, 7 percent is Buddhist and 6 percent is a mix of many other religions. Many of these religions bring great focus on the belief in God, his miracles and his ability to help his creation in a time of need. From these beliefs branched the belief in faith healing, a treatments in which belief in prayer and of God’s help rather than medical treatment is of greater value. Because the treatment is directly from God, followers of the treatment believe that it will grant the highest level of healing. It is often referred to as the treatment of hope. With the advances of modern science and technology, there has become a paradoxical nature between the belief in God’s direct miracles- faith healing- and his indirect miracles- modern science. In recent years, there have been more and more debates regarding whether faith healing is as effective as modern medicine and whether treatment is more mental action or more physical. Unlike faith healing, modern science is proven to better the conditions of those who are ill. Inversely to modern science, faith healing is looked to as a treatment of …show more content…
Anthropologist author Kaja Finkler believes, “biomedicine cannot provide a patient with a satisfactory relationship between pain and some “symbol”-while faith healing can and does. The most common symbol of pain and disease provided by the faith healers is the demon, which can be exorcised by magic.” To a degree she may have a point where the people are not satisfied solely with rational thinking and this is where religious powers agree with her. For example, Reverend Lange states that providing evidence shouldn’t be necessary for faith healing because believing in God should be evidence enough that He is there to
84 percent of the world’s population has a faith. Of those who believe, 32 percent is Christian, 23 percent is Muslim, 15 percent is Hindu, 7 percent is Buddhist and 6 percent is a mix of many other religions. Many of these religions bring great focus on the belief in God, his miracles and his ability to help his creation in a time of need. From these beliefs branched the belief in faith healing, a treatments in which belief in prayer and of God’s help rather than medical treatment is of greater value. Because the treatment is directly from God, followers of the treatment believe that it will grant the highest level of healing. It is often referred to as the treatment of hope. With the advances of modern science and technology, there has become a paradoxical nature between the belief in God’s direct miracles- faith healing- and his indirect miracles- modern science. In recent years, there have been more and more debates regarding whether faith healing is as effective as modern medicine and whether treatment is more mental action or more physical. Unlike faith healing, modern science is proven to better the conditions of those who are ill. Inversely to modern science, faith healing is looked to as a treatment of …show more content…
Anthropologist author Kaja Finkler believes, “biomedicine cannot provide a patient with a satisfactory relationship between pain and some “symbol”-while faith healing can and does. The most common symbol of pain and disease provided by the faith healers is the demon, which can be exorcised by magic.” To a degree she may have a point where the people are not satisfied solely with rational thinking and this is where religious powers agree with her. For example, Reverend Lange states that providing evidence shouldn’t be necessary for faith healing because believing in God should be evidence enough that He is there to