Do You Believe in Faith Healers?

Yes. I believe. Today I was in Apollo Hospital, chennai. There I saw some writing similar to this. Belief is the basis of all healing---I saw patients from North East India, North India, South India assembling there for treatment. There was one patient being treated for 2 months+ . Bill amount is Rs.1 crore +.($20 lakhs roughly). Your mom's uncle would have lost his power on some happening and that is why people were not coming to him.

No dear I don't. I only believed that our faith can help us heal. Scientifically basis, faith can help people heal from ailments thru psychological effects- it's a great help when people facing illness and have strong faith they can be healed.

Hi enelym Yes. Faith works wonders and if you think it that way, the faith healers are existent. Simple - You catch any illness. You go to a doctor - having a Faith that you will get cured - if you didnt, you would not got this particular doc. That is where the First "Faith" things come. Next, the doc prescribes you some medicines - which are merely chemicals or even sweeteners - but tells you that they are going to heal you - you again believe those words - Faith again. Trust me, if you dont believe that the medicines you are taking can cure you... there is no medicine that will cure you. That is Faith again Now, as it is all about faith, I extended it on many occasions to people instead of medicines... And that makes all of those people - faith healers - doesnt it? When I have common cold, I dont take medicines, in fact I dont take any other medicines except for those needed to attend to my UC issue and as of today I am NOT using any medications for Arthritis as the pain is under limits and much bearable.

I believe in them, some Churches do that, i even saw them do it on tv.. and it seems real. I even pray with them sometimes.. I think the power comes from God, and they are like his instruments, but it is also up to the person if he or she has faith too.

I haven't seen a faith healer yet. But i do have an experience of going to a healing mass. But i cannot say for myself that i believe in it because i don't have any sickness to heal in me that time. I have yet to experience healing so i will believe. I think, if you indeed believe in the healing power of God, you will believe.

well...God only has the power to heal the sickness /either His will,or not..it depends on God and He is the one who over to heal people..When Jesus was on earthHe heals peoples disease and some healed because they have faith,believe Jesus that He can....He never use any tools to heal people,like handkercheif,paper,or any words that does not understandable.. Satan can use to heal people with using something giberish words,,unknown,using candle etc..but that is not from God..

Hi enelym! I don't really believe in them. There's too many fraud faith healers that have been exposed on television so it's hard to just believe in things like this. Even if I see them actually happening, I wouldn't believe it. Who knows what kind of tricks they are using? Or if the people they "heal" are their accomplices? (No offense to your mom's uncle) And, I'm more of a scientific person. I believe more on science because they can be explained with hard evidences.

I guess the only way to know whether faith healing works or not is to experience it for one's self. I practice Zen and have experienced some remarkable things. Zen doesn't function on belief systems but accepts what can be proved and that means that awareness becomes a personal experience and as a practitioner, I don't need to prove to anybody else. Yes, I would say that the process called "faith healing" works and have seen to work, but I wouldn't call it "faith" healing because there are instances where the sick person who the healing is directed towards, knows nothing about what others are going for him/her. The human mind is vast and can act against us for for us, as at an unconscious and subconscious level, it does not reason. If we can focus our attention on another person, at a deep level of consciousness, we can connect with them and support them. Some people can experience this connection, whilst other can't but it doesn't alter the power of the healing intent, from what I have experienced. We are evolving as a race all the time, and I would say that we all have this ability if we are willing to learn about it and use it.. _Derek

Hello enelym, I don’t believe in faith healers. But I do believe that FAITH can heal you. Our body is designed to be able to heal itself and with the help of certain supplements and the power of our faith we would be healed. If we believe something happen, it will. It doesn’t matter if its about religion as long as we have FAITH that we would be healed then it will happen.

Hi enelym: It's nice to know another story like this. In myc ase we had a faith healer in my house. It was actually my uncle who had this special power and it's almost like your story. I think the only scientis explanation is the placebo effect. When people believe they'll be cured the body acts this way and they could eventually be cured. My mom told me about this but I haven't seen this in real life. I guess that's the only way to explain this. ALVARO

This one's really popular in the Philippines. I don;t know whether to actually believe or not but someone from my relatives could also do the same. I am not so sure about to story so I can't relate it here. Other people say it's black magic. That stuff like this has been acquired from the dark side. Some of these so-called faith healers are just like placebo, they could be a way of motivation for others to feel better. For me, we are all faith healers but for ourselves, not for others. We can be healed by our faith, it may not be physically but spiritually. It's all in our heart. But of course we still need the actual medicine if we really are ill. =D

I don't believe in faith healers.I saw and watched news about them.For some people,they believe about it and I respect it.It is their choice and belief.Everyone is entitle with their own choice so we should respect it.

quack doctors and faith healers are different in some aspects i guess... but for me faith healing only works if the patient believes that he's gonna get well

Since your from the Philippines as well, I'll assume you've heard of MAGTATAWAS right? I've witnessed someone used Tawas or Alum in English, but I'm not sure if it's for healing, I think the faith healer used it to find the source of the supernatural incident that had happened to my bro. I don't really believe much to them, they scare me as well and supernatural things like that makes my knees go weak, but back then we had no choice but to consult one. My brother had played in this vacant lot somewhere near our neighborhood, and then he had started to get blisters on his feet. It was horrible, it looks a lot like raw meat or a fried longganisa. My older brother couldn't walk anymore, and medicine didn't helped on healing it so my father had brought him to a faith healer. The Magtatawas told us that my brother had stepped on an old buried well where those 'creatures' had been dwelling, and they had took offence on my brothers action so they did that to him. I don't really remember what the faith healer did, but after we had consulted one, my brother's wounds in his feet had healed in no time, just after few days. I was just barely 7 back then, so I couldn't remember much but I've heard of many incidents like that, especially in our country. I'll probably ask my Mom what did the faith healer did to heal my brother's feet. But still, we may have consulted to one but the thought of how they do those tricks or where their powers are coming from scares me a lot, I don't really believe all of them, but from our experience I may believe some of them.

Hi miss... I think I'm familiar with the term, but am not sure what it means.. I have no idea how they do it. Sounds like spiritual stuff to me. If that is the case, then no wonder he lost it (due to guilty conscience) after he began cheating... But could you please tell me how it works? Probably I need it... :-)

I believe in the power of prayer and I believe in the power of the mind. I don't necessarily believe in the power of faith healers, but I do believe that for certain things if the person believes strongly enough in what the faith healer is doing their mind can have a positive effect on the outcome. I don't think that anything can simply cure things like cancer or anything like that though.

I believe that everything is in the mind, of both, the healer and the people who gets to see him/her, and the real power is in the sugestion this people can perform, over the person´s mind, in order to heal him/herself.

I do sometimes. I don't disregard the fact that there are people who are really blessed with such talent. Last year, i found out that my grandpa has a talent in healing sick people. He told me that he was taught by a stranger, an old Japanese man who approached him and shared his talent before retiring and going back to his native land. Now, my grandpa is sick,very sick. He can't even heal him self(disadvantage of being a healer). He said that all the pain he acquire now is from the people he cure. He's partially blind now.

I have never been to faith healers. I do not believe that faith healer could cure the diseases. Most people in Asian country, especially believe in faith healer. I think believe it or not, that all depend on your faith or belief. Some people went to see to get a good medication, they don't believe that medicine could not heal them, they are not healed. Then, they went to see faith healer and they believe in everything what say told and then they finally got recovered. So, in my opinion, that all depends on your belief or faith.

Hello enelym001, i don't believe in faith healers. They scare me alot, but my mother, she always told me that they are true and if something happened to me she would ask someone to protect. I haven't witness any form of faith healing before, but their are still those who believe it specially here in my country the Philippines.