NOTHING DIVINE
‘Ask and you shall receive’ – ‘Where two or three are gathered together in my name’ - 'If you had faith the size of a mustard seed’ – ‘whatsoever ye shall ask in my name’ - have all been taken out of context – all been compromised by charismatics - degraded by charismatic sensuality and greed.
God is not a genie to grant our every wish.
We cannot wield God’s will to our will.
God will not grant every petition.
God will only grant those petitions conformed to His will.
God grants a petition in his own time.
We cannot use God’s Word to bend or to alter reality.
Charismatic “healings” are hypnotic manipulations of the nervous system. The object is manipulated into a type of mental hysteria; the healer, the music, the crowd, and the expectation all play a role in it. The object reacts with his lower ganglionic nerves and a feeling a shock or heat surges up through his body culminating with a release of all that built up tension. The electric charge or the heat of course does not come from the 'healer’s hands; both elation and release are generated by the recipient’s overcharged plexus centers found along the spinal column.
"It's working! It's happening!"
Sometimes a pointed finger or a command can prompt similar reaction in the object’s overloaded nervous system. Scores of people claim to be healed this way, but what they experience is nothing more than emotional tension and its subsequent release. Of course there are always people faking for attention or to help the cause. Ever wonder how these people feel six months later? A good guess would be not much different from before the 'healer' waved his hands over them.
Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work
by Barry L. Beyerstein, Ph.D.
1. The disease may have run its natural course.
2. Many diseases are cyclical.
3. The placebo effect may be responsible.
4. People who hedge their bets credit the wrong thing.
5. The original diagnosis or prognosis may have been incorrect.
6. Temporary mood improvement can be confused with cure.
7. Psychological needs can distort what people perceive and do. Source
