Holy Healers!

Point to the evidence Hinn!

As my last post touched on the subject of healing I ought to post the following for the record. 

The June edition of Christianity magazine has a letter from a Peter Saunders who signs himself as the chief executive of the Christian Medical Fellowship. He says:

The 4000 Christian doctors who belong to the Christian Medical Fellowship Fellowship believe in God's power to heal both in response to prayer and through the gift of medicine. We also believe in the positive effect that Christian faith has on health, which is supported by scientific research.

So here we have a guy who is likely to be very knowledgeable about Christian health issues and at the same time not especially biased against the possibility of miraculous healing. But this is what he goes on to say:

Although God chooses to answer prayer in many ways, there is very little hard evidence that miracles of the sort that Jesus and the apostles performed - instantaneous miraculous reversals on major diseases and disabilities - are happening with any great frequency in Britain today.

That, need I say, concurs with my own observations. However, it is quite likely that Saunders testimony would count for very little amongst the pious ultras who would probably regard much of the medical profession as part of a Godless system. In any case as we saw in my last post any attempt to check up on  apparently miraculous healings may be regarded as at best unnecessary and at worst a sign of resisting the Holy Spirit. But on this subject Saunders writes:

If Jesus was not afraid to have his healings examined by the priests, then we should also seek objective verification [by medical professionals] of any healing claim.

Great advice! But I am afraid that this all rather presumes a culture which respects the medical profession. Unfortunately many marginalised Christian spiritual ultras have a tendency to despise professional medicine and write it off as "man's way". Criticism of their culture will automatically register amongst them as an affront to God, such is their conceit.