Does God really heal people?

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• More times than you or I will ever dream of. I do not want to undermine any answer given but you should always consult a physician, and follow the physician's orders in regards to medicine for healing your body. Science has given us many advances in medicine and healing. But it is my belief that God is sovereign over all things. When you get a cut on your finger it heals. When you get a bruise it heals. Most of the healing that takes place in the world is done with out the use of science or medicine. God created our bodies to heal themselves. So yes, God does heal.

• Why doesn't God heal amputees? There is the issue of God healing supernaturally and outside of the limits and suppositions of our culture and societal norms. I put it this way because healing miracles are a regular part of life in many cultures. Christian missionaries will travel to countries and bring a message to a tribe and witness miracles and documented healing on a regular basis. So the question might need to be; "Can I expect God to heal me in my special circumstance when science does not seem to be helping?" I will tell you yes. Expect away. Pray often and pray even more often. Contact ministry leaders in your area and have your family members pray for you. Never give up on God and he will amaze you. In the end you may not experience a divine healing miracle but I can guarantee you that if you approach your sickness and/or disease in such a way, you will be strengthened and experience a different kind of healing. You may also wake up one day and the doctors will be scratching their heads trying to figure out where the tumor or cancer went.(Taken from http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/how-can-we-know-will-god-divine-healing)

• If you believe the Bible to be true, it is a simple matter to see that the Scriptures contain plenty of examples of miraculous healing by Almighty God. There are a number of examples in the Old Testament where God healed miraculously - for example the healings of Naaman the Syrian through Elisha, and the healing of the people of Israel from the plague in the wilderness. In the New Testament, the four gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are full of stories of healing. A lot of attention is given to divine healing in the accounts of the ministry of Jesus Christ. The Acts of the Apostles also documents a number of reports of miraculous healings done through the hands of the apostles, most notably Peter (Acts 3:1-10; Acts 9:42-43) and Paul (Acts 14:8-10; Acts 28:8,9). But it was not only apostles who did signs and wonders. Philip the evangelist was noted for the healing and deliverance ministry he did in Samaria (Acts 8:5-8) while it is noted that Stephen, also not an apostle, "full of faith and power, did great signs and wonders among the people" (Acts 6:8). So we can see that God did heal miraculously.

• Does God Still Heal Miraculously Today? The Bible makes it very clear that God does not change. "I am the Lord, I change not" (Malachi 3:6). "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8). God identifies himself as the God of healing in Exodus 15:26 where He says, "I am the Lord who heals you (Yhwh Rapha)". Healing is one of the redemptive names of God. It would therefore seem logical, if indeed God is NOT dead, that He has remained "the Lord who heals us". He certainly showed Himself as the "Lord who heals" through the ministry of Jesus Christ and the apostles. If He is no longer today "The Lord who Heals You", He has changed or He has lied. These alternatives are not acceptable to believers. If anyone wants to say that God heals only through the best available medicine of the day, they are limiting God. Modern medical science is a relatively recent development and still faces plenty of cases where it cannot help. On the other hand, concerning God, the Scripture says in the writings of one of the prophets, "I am the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for me?" Some things are too difficult for medical science. If God is limiting Himself today to medical science, then His power in healing is only a matter of theological and academic speculation. It makes very little difference in the outcome of the application of modern medical science whether a person believes or acknowledges God's role in the process or not. Antibiotics work for believers and non-believers alike. Skeptics would say we can drop the acknowledgment of God altogether, by an application of "Occam's razor". How this kind of thinking is considered to glorify God? Is it because we now worship a God who never shows His power in response to prayer for concrete manifestations? Does this God need an army of theologians and lawyers to represent His impotence or apparent lack of compassion for those in suffering? Or is it the theologians themselves who are guilty of destroying the very kind of faith that would bring God onto the scene in miraculous demonstration? There is plenty of Scriptural evidence that God has promised to heal in response to faith. If the book of James, for example, is any indication, God has commanded sick believers to call the elders of the church to anoint them with oil. The Word promises that the prayer of faith will save, or heal, the sick. Actually, in the Greek the word for salvation 'soteria' is used for and certainly encompasses the idea of healing. In many places in the New Testament, when people were healed the word used in Greek was 'sozo', which is also translated 'saved' and derived from the same word. In any case, why would God command the elders to pray for something that He God, is often not willing to actually do?
  

• Do Christians who doubt every report of modern day divine healing believe in the same God who did these things recorded in the Bible? Some Christians claim that miraculous divine healing stopped with the death of the apostles. It is claimed by some that we are now living in a different dispensation, where the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit have been withdrawn, where God never speaks directly to His people except as they read the pages of the Bible or hear a sound Bible teacher expound the pages of the Holy Writ.
  

• Ask yourself instead: did you ever see any proof that God really cured/healed people? But you did see doctors and science cure people, and they showed you exactly how it was done and what was happening. People for a cure, a proper and safe cure must always rely on science, medicine, doctors. God will only heal their innerself, their faith (if they believe in him). Also, as far as healing goes inner-wise, people say that God helped them do things, but in the end, it's the person who has to really heal themselves. God is just their way of seeking help, and for alot of people, that works.
  

• Yes God does heal people. In the Bible God heals people like He raised Lazarus from the dead He made the lame to walk and caused the blind to see. He still heals people today through prayer. I personally know people who have been healed by God and left doctors speechless.

• God has a different way of manifesting his healings nowadays. If you look in the lives of the Israelites, they had miracles in front of their eyes everyday they were in the wilderness, but they still didn't believe. Jesus had the same problem with people having their own agenda for following him instead of wanting to be a disciple and really be sincere about coming close to God. Today, God still heals, of course, but it is more on a personal level rather than wholesale miracles as with the Israelites. But these can still happen also according to our faith. I am just saying they are not the norm as they once were, otherwise a person of faith could walk into a hospital and everyone would be healed. God deals with each person individually for the most part, because each person is at a different spiritual level. I have seen several miracles in my ministry as a chaplain and they are wonderful to behold, but the best miracle is when someone turns their lives over to God and really means business, not just lip service. Salvation is the greatest miracle, the others just help point you to God with whom nothing is impossible.

• That is an interesting premise but fatally flawed. it rests on the idea of "belief" being able to make a difference in the physical world that we live in. If we follow that premise to it's logical conclusion we must also accept that rain will only make us wet if we believe it will make us wet, sticking our hand into a meat mincer will only result in a chewed off hand if we believe in the meat mincer, shooting ourselves in the head with a 12 bore shotgun will only result in a bloody mess where our head used to be if we believe in the shotgun. The Bible is a collection of stories that have been culled from many different religions over many centuries and then translated and re-translated many times. Religion is a way of explaining things we don't understand. rather than tying to understand them. If you need to believe in anything believe in yourself.

• We all use belief everyday for natural things: a car we want, a house of our dreams, why not in the faith realm? There is a lot more out there God has for us if we believe, no matter what people say. It all depends upon whom you listen to, God or people who don't know him.Some people don't want the truth, just argument. Belief does not make reality. It is unfortunate but true. Reality is the physical world we live in, the toes we stub and swear about, the fingers we trap in doors, the wages we get paid, the food we eat and for many people the reality is the food they don't have, the sickness they cannot afford doctors for, the education that their societies and circumstances make impossible. faith might comfort these people but it won't change their realities, only physical change will do that. Show one, just one example of a physical change directly attributable to God that can be verified and backed up by substantiative accounts and witnesses. Stories from the Bible don't count and neither do unsubstantiated stories of miracle cures. If it is real there will be provable, incontrovertible evidence of it's reality. The world has been waiting for this proof for aeon's and it has yet to appear. Give me something to believe in and I will believe, tell me a fairy tale and I will treat it as a fairy tale. Just one simple proof of God's healing power. Just one, that is all the world requires. Why has it not yet appeared?
  

• When people's hearts are so terribly hardened, no matter what God did or how he did it, there would be some excuse for not believing. The enemy loves it when this happens because he knows they are in his trap. All we can do as Christians is pray for these people that they won't wait too long to believe. We only have until the end of this lifetime to make the right choice, Heb. 9:27. Another chapter that relates to what has been said is Romans 1. You can also see this attitude of hardness in the Pharisees of Jesus' day. They thought they had all the answers but they weren't even close to being the examples God intended them to be.

• representing an Islamic point of view, nothing in this world happens without Allah's will.That never means we shouldn't go to doctors -of course not, as Allah told us that we should "act with reasons" which means do what's possible for you to do,but after all it's Allah's will whether we heal or not. So if not him then who does?
  

• A couple of times in the Gospels, Jesus was in an area where people knew him from when he was growing up. This caused these people not to believe in his miracles, and the Bible says he could not do many miracles there because of their unbelief. The same is true for us today. When we don't trust God and are hardened by life, we become unable to receive or even see the miracles around us. For instance, in Romans 1 and in the Psalms it talks about how God's creation testifies of his power, but when we are blinded spiritually we can't or won't see it. That is why the theory of evolution is o prevalent today, because people have hardened their hearts to see what God has created. Mankind must believe in something. When they choose not to believe in God, then deception is right there for them to believe in.
  

• The Bible is only true to those who believe. You have no proof beyond the Bible that anything in it is true. There is no spirituality, we have only ourselves. We are God. The Bible means absolutely nothing.Religion is based on fables. The Christian idea of God is false as is all religious ideas of a god. They are all fables. You have as much of a chance of God answering your prayers as you do praying to a jug of milk. The story of Genesis and the fall of man is a fable. A girl was given magical fruit from a talking snake and God had a metaphysical meltdown and cursed all of creation over a piece of produce--this is what Christianity claims caused the great curse. We make our own way in life and have nothing to fear from death. God does not heal people because he has no power to do so. His followers are bilked by the con artist who put on the healing show for money and fame. Ever see one without a microphone or camera around? There are no supernatural miracles.

• Yes, he heals those who desire forgiveness for their sins.

• God is not a manifest human being and therefore, how does God heal directly? Atheists do not believe in God and therefore, how are they healed? But a theist would say the atheists are just wrong because God really exists. However, science may also debunk the God issue in healing. Still, I have no problem in the healing powers of God, but my God is attributeless and would not interfere with man for any reason. Therefore, I say spirit or the voice of Sat Nam (Fifth Plane Overlord - not the one central God) is the healer that we can feel palpably as human beings. So, it is feeling that heals and not God directly. Reducing the Supreme Deity to such nonsense as healing a mortal bag of bones is ludicrous.

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