Did Jesus heal with the power of suggestion?
Image via Wikipedia Mark 1:29-34 Doctors note that sometimes people can have a psychologically induced illness , and if they get a new purpose or direction for living, they show relief from the symptoms-they don't need the illness anymore. For some others, the " placebo effect " can have visible results. That is, if you think you're going to get better, you often do get better. And when people came to Jesus , they believed he could heal them, so he did. But the fact remains: Regardless of how he did it, Jesus did heal them. Of course, even if you hold to this explanation for some cases, that doesn't explain all of Jesus' healings. Often a psychosomatic healing takes time; Jesus' healings were instantaneous. Many times people who are healed psychologically have their symptoms return a few days later, but we don't see any evidence of this in the gospel accounts. And Jesus healed conditions like blindness and leprosy, for which a psychosomatic expla