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Have any of you read a recent medical study?
Christians recovering from severe illness or injury heal more slowly if told all the parishioners in their church are praying for them than those who are told nothing. Why? RScott
After spending 6 months in the hospital after an auto accident and going from quadriplegic to paraplegic to walking with a limp, I can tell you a major part of healing is willpower. I think if I had been a Christian and told everyone was praying for me it would have weakened my resolve to walk again. Pain not prayer worked for me.
Thanks Pangloss, that's the article I read.
If I were to pray for something, it would be that nobody pray for me. Six months was enough or maybe someone prayed for me and I would have walked in three months.
Part of the six months was two weeks in a coma on full life support and no brain activity. There was no bright light at the end of an tunnel beckoning me. Waking up however was a blankety blank rush.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I think this is the study to which you are referring.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.ht...
Perhaps those who know they are being prayed for do not feel the need to take as much personal responsibility for their own healing such as following the doctor's post operative instructions.
Neptune, do you happen to have a link to that study?
- Rev. SarahLv 41 decade ago
When lots of people send "energy", be it prayer, healing or whatnot, there are many flavors to what is sent. And differences add up. Think of a soup. Every member of the church adds an ingredient. There is no cook to measure or mix the ingredients. How does that taste?
Now you feed that mixed up soup to someone who is sick. What do you think? Maybe they just don't know how to deal with all of the ingredients?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Perhaps if the doctor indicated that the congregation is praying for the patient's RECOVERY the results would be different
- neptuneLv 41 decade ago
Sorry but I read a study claiming exactly the opposite by a non-biased panel of doctors.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I agree with Moth Father, they probably think that God is doing everything for them so that they can get better, and thus do nothing themselves.
- no1home2dayLv 71 decade ago
Your question is just nonsense! Let's see some statistics! Where is your evidence? You are actually wrong! It has been proven BY OBSERVATION, not just by hearsay, that people who are being prayed for actually recover QUICKER!
Quit spreading your evil lies! When people tear down straw men, they are promoting wickedness, and they are making a fool of themselves!
- pjpackersLv 61 decade ago
Study name how was it achieved in what setting by who,Double blind need more info! There have been other studies that show healing...Why?
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I expect that result is not statistically significant.
I expect it makes little or no difference. People do recover better if they are optimistic and have "reason to live".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I have no idea why. Perhaps they feel if that they don't have to do much because "God" is doing it for them? Perhaps they don't care if they die because they "know" they're going to Heaven?
It's very interesting..
