Faith Healers Claim HIV Cure
BBC London is leading with this story this morning and giving it the due respect it deserves. In other words, saying it’s a load of old religious bunkum and the best thing you can do is take your anti-retroviral drugs. The BBC is also saying that there have been at least three deaths, because people stopped taking their drugs.
The Anonymous Widower 
There will have been many more deaths than that, from HIV, and also from things like cancer. I am a Christian, and also trained in Prayer Ministry. We are taught to stress that people MUST take prescribed medication, and although I have seen two miraculous healings, one of which was a life saving one, these are very very rare. One was when I was in my early teens, and a lad from a church family had rheumatic heart disease, was mostly in hospital or at home, he was a couple of years older than me; a call through to curate in a teens study meeting asking for prayer for him and his family as he was not expected to survive the night. The curate led prayers for him and his family. And to the complete astonishment of all of us, we had a call from curate before school next day to say the lad was conscious, out of bed, eating etc. Tests showed his heart problem had gone, he is still alive and well now.
BUT these faith healers, many of whom ask for money, most of whom are African descent, are very very dangerous indeed. Not only because they tell people to come off their medications, but because the people who dont get miraculously healed, which is a huge majority, can feel that God hates them, they arent good enough, or that they are going to Hell.
Very dangerous stuff. Note, I do not go to an Independent Evangelical or Indpendent Pentecostal church although I have come across them. I a a fairly main stream Methodist.
Comment by Liz P | September 24, 2012 |