In the absence of data almost any idea will fly. Examine, if you will, the idea that if you truly have faith, you either a) won’t every get sick, or b) will be healed when you ask or demand that you be healed.
Once in awhile someone prays and is healed. Or someone prays for another person, and the other person gets better. Once in awhile.
More often, a person prays and does not get healed, or prays for someone else and the someone else dies. Way, way more often.
That’s the data.
What about faith? Are these people generally not people of faith? Jesus’ disciples were said to have healed people and to have ‘cast out demons’. Yet, according to the Gospel of Mark, they were mostly doubters, mostly people who misunderstood Jesus most of the time. How come they could pullit off with such inferior faith and most people of faith cannot reliably and consistently pray and get healing to happen?
Or, let’s look at being a magnet for wealth. What is the data there? Tune in for the next blog entry.
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