So I'm a new DM and during one of my adventures, one of the mages in the group got too close to a Yeti and suffered a beatdown. When he was dying, one of the clerics(a more experienced D&D DM than I) cast Channel energy to heal him. Which was fine, but then argued that in Pathfinder, magical healing brings the character to 0 hit points, then heals the damage.(The Mage went from -8 to 8 hp, when the cleric rolled 8 hp for channel energy) Which sounded completely wrong, but I let it slide because, again, he is more experienced than I am.
I've looked it up and it doesn't say that is how it works, and I just wanted to double check before I break the bad news. The mage ended up dying(crit fail on a perform check to play dead), but I just wanted to clear it up before the next adventure.
Thanks!