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1) show me these studies please.
2) True...True and True.
3) Because it wouldn't prove it. In the Bible there were many who saw the healings and still didn't believe in God. The healings are meant to be personable acts of kindness. Also although we can pray for healings, it is not us doing the healing so honestly we don't bat 100%. We do our best to hear what God says and we do it. If that involves a healing here and there then great.
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In the study, the researchers monitored 1,802 patients at six hospitals who received coronary bypass surgery, in which doctors reroute circulation around a clogged vein or artery.
The patients were broken into three groups. Two were prayed for; the third was not. Half the patients who received the prayers were told that they were being prayed for; half were told that they might or might not receive prayers.
The researchers asked the members of three congregations — St. Paul's Monastery in St. Paul; the Community of Teresian Carmelites in Worcester, Mass.; and Silent Unity, a Missouri prayer ministry near Kansas City — to deliver the prayers, using the patients' first names and the first initials of their last names.
The congregations were told that they could pray in their own ways, but they were instructed to include the phrase, "for a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications."
Analyzing complications in the 30 days after the operations, the researchers found no differences between those patients who were prayed for and those who were not.
In another of the study's findings, a significantly higher number of the patients who knew that they were being prayed for — 59 percent — suffered complications, compared with 51 percent of those who were uncertain.
The study also found that more patients in the uninformed prayer group — 18 percent — suffered major complications, like heart attack or stroke, compared with 13 percent in the group that did not receive prayers. In their report, the researchers suggested that this finding might also be a result of chance
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0Interesting study I haven't read in a while. There are other studies but this is apparently the largest one. The author set out to show the power of prayer but it didn't work out in this study.