On Healing, and Health, and God

Any thoughts on how God may or may not be involved in death-defying healing?  What's your position on the truthfulness of those reporting they have died and been returned to life?  If 100 people are praying for someone's return to health following an illness, or accident, or surgery, is there a better chance God will respond to those prayers than if just 3 people are doing the praying?

If God is involved in our healing and health, what does that involvement look like?

The Divine Healing website claims this: "There is an unseen world that surrounds us with love and healing, whether we believe it or not. It is the world of the Divine."

The Apologetics Coordination Team website reports that, "True Biblical Divine Healing is immediate, lasting, (and) verifiable..."

The Bible says that all things are possible to those who believe.  It also says the prayer of faith will heal the sick.

Where do you come down on these sort of pronouncments?

I am very skeptical of them.  And yes, I do realize this is a very touchy, sensitive, argument-producing topic of discussion and faith.

I want to quote Scott Russell Sanders at this point:

“How could our hearts be large enough for heaven if they are not large enough for earth?  The only country I am certain of is this one here below.  The only paradise is the one lit by our everyday sun, the land of difficult love, shot through with shadow.  The place where we learn this love, if we learn it at all, shimmers behind every new place we inhabit.” 

 

I think Mr. Sanders is suggesting that real life is the life we live...here and now...on earth...with each other.

 

And now, I want to post a captioned picture:

 

I think the picture speaks incredible truth. 

 

I believe we are able to dispense the healing and health God would want for all of us...but, of course, we have not yet come close to doing that sort of thing.  Hopefully, someday we will.