Faith Healing
Garrett Litalien
Ms. Downey
IB English
December 30, 2012
Assessing Ethical Beliefs of Faith Healing There are certain aspects of sicknesses and illnesses like sexually transmitted diseases and even cancer that aspire expensive medical procedures and attention. Most illnesses don’t even provide a cure, leaving most patients hopeless and creating a new fear for them. Patients can often be restricted with the cost of being cured because it makes them vulnerable to use less expensive methods that promise a cure, like Faith Healing. Faith Healing is “healing through spiritual means. Believers assert that the healing of a person can be brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that, according to adherents, stimulate a divine presence and power toward correcting disease and disability.” Faith Healers often start from a young age and there are some famous Faith Healers in the Philippines that do their healing around the world and not just their country. There was a Faith Healer in the Philippines whose name was Fernando Suarez. He was a priest who performed his Faith Healing methods throughout the world and not just in the Philippines. He started his journey of Faith Healing when he was only 16. At this point in his life he stumbled upon a crippled woman and in retrospect he felt sorry for her, so he began to pray beside her. As he was encountering this woman, he spoke about feeling the woman’s bones grow in her body. He had this strange feeling that God provided him with the gift of prayer and healing, and so he began gathering thousands of people that hoped to be healed from their disease someday. One of his many successful cases of healing was in fact his grandmother when she was told that she only had 24 hours to live. He prayed and prayed over her constantly and she was miraculously healed after a few days. There are many successes to Faith Healing as a whole, but there is a bigger picture to all of this. Not everyone that has been healed
Ms. Downey
IB English
December 30, 2012
Assessing Ethical Beliefs of Faith Healing There are certain aspects of sicknesses and illnesses like sexually transmitted diseases and even cancer that aspire expensive medical procedures and attention. Most illnesses don’t even provide a cure, leaving most patients hopeless and creating a new fear for them. Patients can often be restricted with the cost of being cured because it makes them vulnerable to use less expensive methods that promise a cure, like Faith Healing. Faith Healing is “healing through spiritual means. Believers assert that the healing of a person can be brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that, according to adherents, stimulate a divine presence and power toward correcting disease and disability.” Faith Healers often start from a young age and there are some famous Faith Healers in the Philippines that do their healing around the world and not just their country. There was a Faith Healer in the Philippines whose name was Fernando Suarez. He was a priest who performed his Faith Healing methods throughout the world and not just in the Philippines. He started his journey of Faith Healing when he was only 16. At this point in his life he stumbled upon a crippled woman and in retrospect he felt sorry for her, so he began to pray beside her. As he was encountering this woman, he spoke about feeling the woman’s bones grow in her body. He had this strange feeling that God provided him with the gift of prayer and healing, and so he began gathering thousands of people that hoped to be healed from their disease someday. One of his many successful cases of healing was in fact his grandmother when she was told that she only had 24 hours to live. He prayed and prayed over her constantly and she was miraculously healed after a few days. There are many successes to Faith Healing as a whole, but there is a bigger picture to all of this. Not everyone that has been healed
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