[Joseph Harrolds]

I wish you could have the experience of the Spirit of God move through you and into situations of your life so you would know God is real. I wish you had it move through your relationships, work, mind and emotions to soothe you and move/direct you.

Assuming that the Spirit of God is real (and is as presented in the Bible) then I wish the same.

I wish you could have it move through your body to heal you like has happened to me throughout my life.

Science cured my kidney cancer earlier this year, whereas everything I've read about faith healing has lead to the conclusion that it's a placebo at best, and fraud resulting in death at worst.  I'll stick to what works!

What is it that you do not see happening today as it pertains to Western culture, as stated in the passage that opened this thread? Did you read and understand the passage before you dismissed it? What about did you deem false?

As I look at the universe (and I have a fairly good understanding of astronomy) I see no evidence of the supernatural (the hand of God) whatsoever.

Welcome to FR!

Thank you.

[PieterCasparzen]

Science cured my kidney cancer earlier this year, whereas everything I've read about faith healing has lead to the conclusion that it's a placebo at best, and fraud resulting in death at worst. I'll stick to what works!

Medical science is compatible with Scripture. Unethical medicine, i.e., intentionally causing death, etc., is unscriptural. There used to be a "do no harm" principle even from a secular point of view in medicine.

Science cured my kidney cancer earlier this year, whereas everything I've read about faith healing has lead to the conclusion that it's a placebo at best, and fraud resulting in death at worst. I'll stick to what works!

Modern-day faith healing is unscriptural. The Reformation dispensed with it as heretical, but it's made inroads back since the 1800's in America.

It seems fairly obvious that we have limits as to what we can accomplish with medicine; I don't think anyone thinks that a man can perform a miracle !

Praying for the sick certainly is Scriptural. Certainly Believers know that God hears their prayers and is almighty and sovereign, and according to his will we will live or die, no matter how good or bad our circumstance may seem at any particular moment. We know he cares for his own like a father for his child. The Believer is comforted and the Bible tells us that we are to accept God's will.

As I look at the universe (and I have a fairly good understanding of astronomy) I see no evidence of the supernatural (the hand of God) whatsoever.

Do you see evidence of anything ?