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Placebo Effect Vs Blessings - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 23rd May, 2014 - 6:33pm
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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?
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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
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Ordinances of the priesthood are valid if they are performed by authorized priesthood bearers in the prescribed manner. While local leaders will want to do everything within their power to see that only worthy brethren administer the sacrament, the ordinance does not become invalid if someone involved is unworthy at the time he participates. The sanctity of the ordinance is violated, but not the validity. If the partaker is worthy and sincere, all the possible blessings and benefits will be his |
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.
Post Date: 23rd May, 2014 - 6:33pm / Post ID: #
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.)
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