>> “Or are you saying that prayer causes glycoprotein produced by the parietal cells of the stomach, so that mostly women who do not produce enough glycoprotein haven’t prayed enough?” <<
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I trust that you understand the term “strawman?”
Who said anything about quantities of prayer?
All autoimmune diseases are rooted in self rejection and fear. Asthma, Lupus, and pernicious anemia would fall into that group. If you confess the cause, and repent of the sins of fear and self hatred you are elligible for the body of Yeshua, which heals our diseases.
Its not about who is praying, nor how long; its about achieving that elusive sanctification through the confession and repentance of shuch sins as may be in the way... Or not.
Sorry, I’ve known too many genuinely virtuous people who died horrible deaths because they used prayer instead of common sense. The most insidious and lethal part of it was that they were encouraged to procrastinate instead of deal with their medical problems promptly, turning easy to treat problems into lethal ones.
Make no mistake, prayer does *help* the healing process, but a person who relies entirely on prayer is leaping off a cliff and hoping that the hand of God will catch him. It doesn’t work that way.