IF HEALING TAKES
PLACE
It is typical for many
alternative medicine treatments that they cannot always be scientifically
proven and they may lack a theoretical base. This raises a question of why
people are still sometimes healed? For what reason?
The answer to
this is simple. If healing does occur, in principle there are only two things that
can cause it. They are the placebo effect or the power of evil.
The placebo effect is one possible
reason for healing. It is generally based on a good patient/doctor
relationship, in which the healer can be medicine, even though any medical care
is not given. It has also been noted that even a tablet containing sugar or
calcium – that should not have any medical effect whatsoever but that the
patient believes to be medicine – can result in healing especially if it has
been given by a reliable doctor.
The effect of a
placebo might even be more powerful than that of normal medicine. It is
estimated that 30–35% of physically and mentally sick people react positively
to placebos. If the treatment includes methods which have no medical effect in
themselves, up to 50% of the patients can feel healed. (An article in Valitut
palat / “Reader’s Digest”; “Luulon parantava voima”; December 2004";
about the power of placebos).
The effect of
the placebo can thus not be excluded from the area of alternative medicine. It
is likely that the treatments that do work are based on the placebo effect and
a confidential patient/doctor relationship.
The powers of the darkness are the second
possible way of healing. As the powers of the darkness can cause illnesses (for
example, Job 2:7, Luke 13:16), they can also sometimes take them away, through
spiritual healing, transportation of energy, or acupuncture, etc. (we should
note that in some countries acupuncture needles are "blessed" by
local witches) if the evil forces benefit from this.
Our body can
thus be healed, but at the same time our soul can be bound by demonic powers.
This can manifest, for example, as mental symptoms, or it is possible that they
let a person be in peace until he or she turns to God (because Satan has deemed
this person a sure case). Immediately when the person turns to God, he or she
may be faced with difficult fights until s/he is freed from these powers (those
of us who have been involved in occultist healing must confess this sin, pray
to be freed from the powers of the devil, and then command them to leave in the
name of Jesus Christ in order to be freed). The next example refers to how
these kinds of symptoms are typical for people who are burdened by occultism
and who are turning to God. The example describes a man who had been taken to
see a magician when he was a small boy, but now as an adult wanted to turn to
God:
(…) The word of God spoke to
the man, and he wanted to follow Christ. After he had made this decision, he
started to suffer from deep distress, depression, and suicidal thoughts. This
distressed man told me in pastoral care that his life had progressed normally
after being healed. Only when he had started to pray and read the Bible had all
hell gotten loose. The depression was so powerful that he had made three
suicide attempts. A doctor had saved his life. When the doctor had seen the
poison he had with him, he had said, "This amount of poison would have
been enough to kill ten people.” (...) The fight lasted for a couple of months. Christ won in the end. The man was
completely freed from the results of the magician’s treatment. Where sin had
been great, the grace of God had been even greater. (5)
The problem with spiritual
healing, energy healing, and other similar methods is that they leave us
exposed to the powers of the devil. It is a question of the demonic version of
placing hands on people that greatly resembles the biblical model. As the
Spirit of God wants to lead people to freedom, the powers of the darkness always
lead people into slavery, spiritual blindness, and unnecessary sufferings.
These unnecessary paths, also in the congregations, can be best avoided by not
allowing any unreliable people to treat anyone:
Fifthly, people who earnestly
and eagerly wait to be baptized with the Holy Spirit should not allow just any
person to put their hands on them when they pray. Evil spirits are very
contagious, like a disease that spreads like an epidemic. I have seen how
unclean spirits have been transferred to people when someone who has evil
spirits in him has placed his hands on them. When such a spirit settles in
them, they suffer terribly until they are freed from it. If someone wants hands
to be placed on him in prayer, he should always make sure that the people who do
that are full of the Spirit of the Truth. (6)
MAGIC AND SPELLS
One issue connected with
healing is the use of spells. Using them has often been called white magic,
because the intention is to turn only to the good powers and do good, while in
black magic the intention is to do the opposite.
White magic may
also use phrases like “in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy
Spirit” (they might also use three prayers of the Lord, three signs of the
cross or other Christian symbols connected with the number 3) and it can be difficult to distinguish these from
real prayer. However, magic differs from prayer in that it is not directed to
God who is in Heaven, but His name is only used as a technical symbol, which
can be regarded as misuse of the name of God (Exo 20:7: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain....). The mechanical
use of words is typical in magic, as if they were magical words; they become
divine and if they are not pronounced right, the spell does not work.
The technical
pattern or correct wording have no meaning in the right kind of prayer. In it,
we turn to God who is in Heaven, and simply tell our worries to Him. The letter
to the Philippians has a good example of a normal prayer:
- (Phil 4:6) Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
What does the Bible say? People who
practice white magic often sincerely believe that they are in contact only with
good powers and that they do good. They think like those practicing spiritism,
who believe to be in contact only with good spirits and try to protect
themselves from evil spirits.
However, the
fact is that both of these deal with evil spirits, not good ones. Even Anton
LaVey, who has been the high priest of the Satanic Church, has said that white
magic deals with the same powers as black magic. He said that "people
who take part in the ceremonies of white magic stand inside a pentagon to
protect themselves from the 'bad' powers they call to assist. (...) From the
eyes of a worshipper of Satan it feels phony to protect oneself from the same
powers that are called to help.” (7)
However, the
most important criterion in this area is the word of God. The Bible says that
being in contact with the deceased and seer spirits is wrong, such as also
casting of spells and practicing sorcery. This is such a serious thing that
people who practice these issues will not enter the kingdom of God. However,
those who have been dealing with these issues can receive full forgiveness and
purification from their sins. This takes place when they turn to God, confess
their sins and let God save them:
- (Deut 18:10-12) There shall not
be found among you any one that makes his
son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a
charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer.
12 For all that
do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these
abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.
- (Lev 19:26) You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither
shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.
- (2 Kings 17:17) And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- (Isa 47:12) Stand now with your enchantments, and with the
multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be
you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
- (Gal 5:19-21) Now the works of
the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of
the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- (Rev 21:8) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable,
and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars,
shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is
the second death.
- (Rev 22:15-17) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and
murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
16 I Jesus have
sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and
the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that
hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him take
the water of life freely.
REFERENCES:
1) Quote from (HEILUNG UND BEFREIUNG) Voitto on
sittenkin meidän, Kurt Koch, p. 47
2)
PEKKA REINIKAINEN / MARJA RANTANEN, Parantajat, p. 191,192
3)
KURT KOCH, (Between Christ and Satan)
Onko paholainen olemassa?, p. 68
4)
PEKKA REINIKAINEN / MARJA RANTANEN, Parantajat, p. 193
5) KURT KOCH, (DER ABERGLAUBE) Taikauskot,
p. 134
6)
YONGGI CHO, Pyhä Henki ja sinä, p. 100
7) FEORGE VANDEMAN, Psykisk Roulette, s.
156. Quote from Kauko-ohjattu (MED FORT HÅND), Ingerlise Provstgaard, p.
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