Holy water and blood are also mentioned in the scriptures as having healing power.
I'm curious. But being LDS all my life, I've never heard of the oil having any healing power in our faith.
If no study has been done then what evidence do you have that oil works better than blood or water?
None. Not even anecdotal. Of course that could have something to do with the fact that the oil has no healing power in our faith. But I certainly have been witness to LDS priesthood blessings being efficacious in the sense that healing was much quicker than expected or things that appeared on x-ray or MRI one day, were not there the next.
What do you think the purpose of the oil is anyway?
As I recall, according to Mormon myth, consecrated oil is for the healing of the sick by the laying on of hands by those in authority in the house of faith (or some such mumbo jumbo).
Well that's quite a bit different from your initial claim that the oil is claimed by us to have some sort of healing power.
bcspace wrote: None. Not even anecdotal. Of course that could have something to do with the fact that the oil has no healing power in our faith. But I certainly have been witness to LDS priesthood blessings being efficacious in the sense that healing was much quicker than expected or things that appeared on x-ray or MRI one day, were not there the next.
Certainly doesn't sound like the kind of healing Jesus talked about. It sounds exactly what you'd expect to happen occasionally in the absence of miracles.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Certainly doesn't sound like the kind of healing Jesus talked about. It sounds exactly what you'd expect to happen occasionally in the absence of miracles.
Certainly doesn't sound like the kind of healing Jesus talked about. It sounds exactly what you'd expect to happen occasionally in the absence of miracles.
Doctors couldn't explain it.
Well then by all means, the ONLY other logical explaination is that God did it!! There is absolutely NOTHING else that could have happened.
Either the Dr's can explain it, or God did it. Yep. The only 2 valid options.
Do you know how many more Dr's we would need to have if every slightly unexplained healing were researched to find out exactly why the ailment was cured?? Maybe Dr's say "I can't explain it" because they simply don't have the time to run 1000 tests to find out the natural cause it was cured??
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Certainly doesn't sound like the kind of healing Jesus talked about. It sounds exactly what you'd expect to happen occasionally in the absence of miracles.
Doctors couldn't explain it.
Argument from ignorance.
People get better unexpectedly all the time, with or without blessings. They also die sooner than expected all the time, again, with or without blessings.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Certainly doesn't sound like the kind of healing Jesus talked about. It sounds exactly what you'd expect to happen occasionally in the absence of miracles.
Doctors couldn't explain it.
So when the Shaman with crystals and chants drives the disease from the terminally ill person, and the doctor can't explain it, how is that different from a Mormon priesthood blessing that the doctors can't explain?
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
A Bishop told me a story one time about how he went on a mission in England. One Saturday himself, his companion and another group of missionaries went to some sort of Evangelical sermon. They were dressed in their missionary clothes and all that, the elders listened to the preacher's whole spill. One of the missionaries had a swollen ankle that just would not, for the life this elder go away. So this missionary gets up on stage with the rest of the sick people; just for something fun to do. The preacher goes through the line-up and people were supposedly healed(The bishop did not tell of any 'dramatic effects' preformed by those that were healed) When the preacher gets to the missionary he heals the guy and the swelling went away, the elder was 100% healed. So the group of elders gets into their car and not one of them said a word; complete silence. The elders made their way to a phone and called the mission president, they didn't say much other than they needed to see him right away. So the mission president goes to their apartment and preforms a blessing(I can't remember if the president did it alone or with the help of an elder)After this blessing the swelling in the ankle came back.
Moral of the story there can be false healers that can make sick people better. (Just as the stick was turned into a serpent by Pharaoh's best sorcerer)
Then the Bishop asked his wife if he may be able to share a story about her dying mother. (The Bishop's wife ignored his request and just sat there; playing with her cell phone)
