{"id":147,"date":"2010-01-11T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotlandneedsthegospel.org\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-01-11T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:41:01","slug":"spiritual-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a brief blog today – to try and keep my promise to blog more often! There was a very interesting edition of Beyond Belief<\/em> on Radio 4 this afternoon. The subject under discussion was Spiritual Healing and the guests were, if my memory serves me correctly, a Hindu priest, a practicing ‘complimentary healer’ and a Christian GP.<\/p>\n

What struck me forcefully was the contrast between those who can only speak of ‘Universal Energy Sources’ and an individual who could speak of a personal God. One whom he had come to know and trust.<\/p>\n

Clearly I am not an unbiased listener, but it was a pleasure to hear a genuine Christian on national radio who was unashamed to point out the huge gulf in his ‘world-view’ with that of the other two guests. As he observed, of course, both views cannot be correct, despite references from the other guests to ‘people of faith’ and such like! I was also struck by his solemn warning with regard to seeking ‘spiritual healing’ from sources that we cannot identify or know.<\/p>\n

The Apostle Paul was able to look back at the end of his life and say “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him…” 2 Tim 1 v12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a brief blog today – to try and keep my promise to blog more often! There was a very interesting edition of Beyond Belief on Radio 4 this afternoon. The subject under discussion was Spiritual Healing and the guests were, if my memory serves me correctly, a Hindu priest, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb2kTD-2n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotlandneedsthegospel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}