There is a caTegory of alTernaTive healing known as ‘complementary medicine’ which can work effectively with conventional medicine. Certain practices are forbidden in the Bible, including divination and consulting psychic mediums (see Leviticus 20:27) but the majority ofalternative therapies fall into the third broad category ofthe “new age’ which is quite blurry and requires handlingwith care. Applying Two TesTs Tt 1: s; this is the foundation of modern medical practice and suggests that any practice that is not open to rigorous research and verication is unconvincin gand at worse quackery. This test is a good way to provide protection to patients through clinical trials before any practice or drug therapy is approved. However, the problem arises when practices that fall outside of rational science are rejected as though science is the ultimate test of credibility. Many alternative therapies fall into this category and are subject to this scientic bias. Christian prayer is also scientically unveriable and often issues of faith are discarded by scientic rationalism. We would argue that science is not required to prove the Bible. Similarly we have to be careful not to make a blanket rejection of alternative therapies because they cannot be rationalised by science. ‘Rapha’? Reiki Informed evangelicals are both passionately for and against alternative therapies, that’s why we need to carefully examine the multitude ofavaila ble practices. BDstaumum or
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