Spiritual Healing is Confusing to Some

If you read the comments on the prior post you will see that a young woman offered to help me write the blog. She volunteered to write on what she calls, "energy healing". I appreciate anyone that is willing to invest in the betterment and healing of people with cancer but I will not accept her offer.

You may be interested in why I am rejecting her offer. It is simple, I am committed to pray and interact in the Name of Jesus which is above all other names. Over the past few years many people int eh USA and Europe have adopted the term "spiritual". In that context, spiritual can mean any focus on anything including Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

In our nation anyone can believe in and worship almost anything and I like that fact. I affirm the legal right of any person to worship god, gods or God in any way their are led. But i am a convinced and convicted born again, Holy Spirit filled Christian and I do not worship any God but the Lord God of Hosts.

There are three main ways to think about spirituality:

1. Pantheism holds that god or gods are in everything. A Pantheist may have millions of gods and see the in trees, rocks and people. They believe that the physical universe and disease is a myth that exists only in the mind.

2. Secular Humanism is the preferred religion of many educated Westerners. They beleive in the uniformity of natural causes in a closed system that excludes the supernatural. However, they may claim to be very spiritual.

3. Dualism is the religion of many who see a supernatural or spiritual world but hold that the spiritual and physical are not c0mpatible because the spirit is pure and matter is evil. They hold that there is a uniformity of natural causes in a closed system.

4. Judeo - Christian Wholism sees the supernatural, spiritual realm as real and ever present. There is a uniformity of natural causes in an open system.

I am wholly committe4d to live and move and breathe in #4. while Jillian is in, so it seems, #1. so we are in-compatible.