When Faith Healing Results in Death

Believing that God can heal is a basic tenet  of Christianity and other faiths. However, it does not mean abandoning reason and medical help. Remember Jesus said it is the sick that need the physician not the well.

I believe in healing and I believe in Doctors. You can pray and the Doc can be used by God to do his will. I would never say"If you don't do this God then she will die" God gives wisdom to people to heal. The parents could sure use some also.

I think it's a shame that this happens in the world today, although every once in a while, the same situation occurs.  They were waiting for God's intervention--don't they realize that His intervening  might  have  been  by the hands of the doctor who could have saved  their daughter's life?  God uses many means to accomplish his work.  It's terrible that this child had to die.

Allow me to quote the Scriptures: 1 Cor 13:8-10

"Charity never fails.  But where there are prophecies, they shall fail.  Where there are tongues, they shall cease.  Where there is knowledge, it shall vanish.  We know in part, prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect comes, that which is in part shall be taken away."

So with all the gifts: as we have gained the skill to do what God once did, He has put us on our own to do so, as we teach our children to walk by letting them skin their knees.

In a greater sense, it was necessary.  These gifts of God were signs to the early Church to give them faith that they had indeed believed the truth.  Since then, we have come of age.  That does not mean God has lost His power.  Nor does it mean that we believe in vain.

It means that we have taken our first steps.  Now that we can walk, we need not go back to crawling.  Also, when the end of life comes, as it has since Adam, then we must face that with faith and know that we don't need signs and miracles to believe.

You helped your kids with their homework, but you didn't do it for them.

What has transpired, did so because it was God's intent.  We don't all need to endure a century on earth to be redeemed.  When God calls people home, they go to Heaven.

i tend to think if there is god, and if he is that wise and mighty, and if humans built in his image, than:

1. he will probably prefare those who will help themselves instead of waiting for him for help every 2 secs.

2. he will asume we are smart enough to think for ourselves.

3. he will be too mighty to bother with every little person who deside to ruin his life.

4. he wont even bother by those who will ask angrily after "why did god agreed to that?" because he is simply too big for that.

5. on the other hand if there is NOgod, than get medication for the needed will be the best thing to do, right? so until there is a cutting prove that he/she/it exist, we better take care of ourselves.

As a Chistian, of course I believe that God heals - but I also believe that physicians are available and that God can work through them. (After all Luke was a physician).I have gone with elders in my church and anointed a sick person with oil and prayed over them.. according to Thy will... A person who is sick should go to a doctor and get diagnosed and if there is treatment go with the treatment - at the same time the person should pray and have others pray for them to recover. All is in God's hands and He will decide if and when and how a person is to be healed.

Trusting above is never wrong. But today we have medicines to cure sickness and it's one thing that He allowed human beings discover. It's His way of curing the sick these days but of course it's much better to accompany it with a prayer. With regards to the faith healer, yes, they could be of help but most of them are afraid to be embarassed by saying "you need to be in the hospital, they can find out what's really wrong with you". Negligence is a great offense especially if it resulted to death. Civil Rights Lawyers can help you with that matters providing with a strong evidence you could have.