are faith healers true?

It's really an enigma whether faith healers are true/effective or not. Our beliefs about faith healers have been greatly influenced by our culture and our own experiences as well. Although there is still no proof or scientific evidence if they can really cure or treat any kind of disease or illness, I think they still contribute a lot in our society. They give less fortunate sick people a chance or opportunity to be treated, another option aside from costly medical treatments which they cannot afford. At least they can still be given attention or aid rather than doing nothing because they have no money for modern healthcare treatments. Well, maybe they can really treat some diseases or illnesses through conventional methods or herbal treatments which are acknowledge even at this day. I also like the thought that somehow, they give hope to those who have serious unknown cases. Although they may not really treat them, it's still different when a sick person gains hope and gets his/her soul uplifted. There's something about hope that makes a sick person feel better, get well sooner, or at least live longer if he is terminally ill than someone who have lost hope and faith. Maybe they are called faith healers because of this reason or purpose. It's really up to us if we will still patronize them and believe that they are true. =)

If they try to heal based on the faith of other spiritual elements, that's gothic and eerie. They can work by this kind of ritual but won't do you any good in the future since you have seeked healing from a medium-like person who opens spirtiual realm to let the manifestation of power work over him.

some are true.. some are not.. I used to believe on them when I was a child, but while I grow up, I realized that not all of them are.. My parents always bring me or my brothers to faith healers whenever we're sick, but not all times we get well so they need to bring us to another faith healers.. I used to go to my sister-in-law's house.. Her mother knows how to heal some sickness.. She used to rub my back and then she'll absorb something and will spit something, she told me that she spitted the bad auras.. but after the session, i felt so comfortable..

I believe it. My uncle do faith healing but only for those who believe that they'll be healed and for those who have faith in God! Most of the faith healers use their talent to earn money for living, but my uncle doesn't. No money involved at all! He does it because he wants to help.

I think I know what you mean. It's not a straw but it's a fang. The quack doctor would cut the wound to make it bigger to get the fang inside and he would suck the rabies out of the victim's body. It might be effective but it's quite dangerous because the fang actually may not be sterilized and it could cause more damage. But in the Philippines since most people are immune to dirt then infection would be a very rare case. But these quack couldn't remove the tetanus from the victim's body so it still is dangerous.

Yes it is true that there are faith healers and they are doing a great job. Actually the knowledge they have is very old, they know about treatment of every disease. The modern medical science is based on that knowledge. Now we are getting medicine, injections, all these are based on that traditional knowledge. We are now using modern technologies to get tablets etc but they are giving the same cure in natural form. I have seen this that a snake bitten person became healthy without medicine, by only eating a lot of onions till he started vomiting, there are other examples too. I think it is true and it is only the basic form of Modern medical science...:_

Kind of makes one wonder what that herbal plant was. One might also investigate whether rabies is fatal to everyone. I bet some people survive regardless.

Oh! I also forgot to add regarding faith healers... It's all up to you if will believe to them or not... It's still in your faith that heals... Not some spiritual healers... But if you have the money, go to a doctor and not depend to faith healers...

You still need to have an anti-rabies shot even if dogs has an antirabies shot... Just a precaution... My neighbor's daughter was bitten by a dog then they had an anti rabies shot. When they were in the hospital waiting for their turn, they saw a man who s already drooling and hallucinating. They assumed that he got the rabies. But later on, they were told that that man was bitten a year ago and doesn't do anything and didn't get a rabies shot... the rabies manifested in his body system after a year... So just a precaution.... Get an antirabies shot... Well, you'll never know....

I have heard similar stories before, where people bitten by dog were healed by faith healers. I was stung by a black scorpion once. I felt excruciating pain surging through my arm. There was a faith healer around. He recited some mumbo-jumbo and lo, the pain disappeared. It gave me a relief faster than any medicine would have given. I have a scientific explanation for it. Our own body's sympathetic nervous system reacts when we are hurt. It releases the toxin needed to heal the injury. Our own body is able to produce about 200 such toxins. Our body is not able to produce an antidote for snake bite. Only horse is able to produce that antidote. Therefore, they extract the vaccine out of a vein near Horse's neck, mix it with saline and inject it in humans who suffer snake bite. Faith healers invoke sympathy for the person who is afflicted by dog bite, scorpion sting or snake bite. While doing so they induce victim's sympathetic nervous system to produce an antidote, which their own body is able to produce. It is then victims own body, which heals itself.

Hello beeh13u, There are a lot of healers doing that but for me I don't believe them if they only make miracle to heal person because of the power of evil spirit. If i have a disease or big problems in my life God is the first I look for and pray to help me. We know that God is powerful of them all. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.

Since you said that they are called evil spirits, definitely they are not true. Always remember that Satan came here to steal, kill and destroy. And doing that as a miracle, satan is stealing the minds of people to have faith on those so called faith healers and not to depend on God. If someone is sick or in a critical condition, lay your hands upon him and pray to be healed in Jesus Name.. and next thing to do is bring him to the doctor. Doctors are used by God to heal us.

no I dont think they. but I might be wrong