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Placebo Effect Vs. Blessings

Placebo Effect vs. Blessings

When you are healed from a disease or illness after a blessing by someone who you later learned was unworthy at the time of the blessing then will you say that your healing was based on the Placebo Effect or the Blessing?

Blessings Vs Effect Placebo

Faith of itself can be considered a placebo effect for some who are healed through that alone.

Placebo Effect Vs. Blessings Studies Doctrine Mormon

No I wouldn't. Healing does not come from blessings it comes from faith. Healing comes as much as a result of your own faith as it does from whomever gave the blessing. The healing power of the Priesthood is fueled by faith more than worthiness. No matter how worthy the person is who is giving the blessing, if the receiver has no faith they may not be healed anyway.

Just because someone has done something to make them unworthy it does not mean they do not have enough faith to heal. Who knows perhaps the fact that they were able to find enough faith to participate in a healing blessing was the turning point to help them move toward repentance.

And in the end, does it really make a difference? I suppose someone with no faith would call any miracle healing a placebo effect. A healing is a blessing regardless of where it comes from.

Edited: alskann on 29th Sep, 2008 - 4:23pm

Blessings Vs Effect Placebo

From the question:

"What should I do if I know that someone who is administering the sacrament is unworthy? Does this affect the validity of the sacrament?"

Rex W. Allred, "Q&A: Questions and Answers," New Era, Oct. 1984, 48-49

So, I would infer from this, that the faith of the person receiving a blessing or ordinance can have profound affect on the validity of the blessing.

So I believe there is a real affect of a blessing even if the holder is not completely worthy.

Blessings Vs Effect Placebo

"There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundation of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated;

"'And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated."

(D&C 130:20, 21.)