Is it sinful to resort to healers if they heal through prayer?

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleЯвляется ли грехом обращение к бабушке-целительнице, чтобы снять сглаз, если она снимает его молитвами?
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Asliturk, Miriam
5. lemma category Natural and the supernatural > Magic - Scientific theories and disciplines > Medicine - Natural and the supernatural > Pseudoscience
6. Publication date 08-07-2018
7. lemma work Тюков, Алексий (Протоиерей) [Author]. Является ли грехом обращение к бабушке целительнице, чтобы снять сглаз, если она снимает его молитвами?
8. lemma manifestations Клин православный: Сайт храма иконы Божией Матери "Всех Скорбящих Радость" г. Клин
9. Keywords pseudo-medicine - superstitions - Russian Orthodoxy - orthodoxy and health
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11. Citations
    1. <p>Тюков, Протоиерей Алексий (2011). Является ли грехом обращение к бабушке целительнице, чтобы снять сглаз, если она снимает его молитвами? <em>Клин православный: Сайт храма иконы Божией Матери "Всех Скорбящих Радость" г. Клин</em>. Retrieved from: <a href="http://www.pravklin.ru/publ/12-1-0-425">http://www.pravklin.ru/publ/12-1-0-425</a> </p>
12. Lemma body

    1. The author explains that when one needs medical aid, one does not address a random person but rather searches for a medical specialist. Thus, in spiritual life one should not seek help from superstitious wizards but rather turn to traditional specialists that are the Church’s servants. There is a misunderstanding that one can be cured through prayer. This, the author affirms, is wrong. A prayer is a monologue of one’s soul addressed to God who will or will not choose to heal the patient. A prayer is not a spell or a combination of some special healing sounds, but rather the hope of a dialogue with God.

       Many healers cheat their clients by sending them to Church, presenting this experience as some sort of medical procedure. Having a mystical attitude to Church services is in fact a most sinful act. Healers make people believe that if one carries out certain rituals, for example, lighting a candle, God will cure them. Believing that mechanical realization of a ritual will inevitably bring results is the manifestation of a mystical superstitious mindset. By sending the diseased to Church services, healers make people believe that they are on the good side of the force together with God when in fact this is wrong.

       The author concludes that the sick need to side with God, and not with healers, thus becoming dependent on them. This leads to dark forces taking control of the patient’s souls and the loss of true freedom. When people have spiritual questions they should address priests in church and confess regularly.