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Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Thoughts

Intelligent design is a topical issue, this is my ten pence worth, or 25 cents for that matter


First I appluad your faith, and join in agreement with you, and the many who will, and are, praying continually


I believe in, and for your recovery ,after all that is the very nature of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ's Passion for us.


That said the work of doctors is the expression of the divine imperative much like Luke [a doctor] accompanying Paul.


God's desire for us as expressed by scripture is health - but it is as the guy says, [and this truth is so often corrupted by the meme of Zoraster's  dualism ] "Satan is real and causes many pleasures and pains. But he is not ultimate. " Amen;


who satan is, is another matter; but without delving too deep - evil, and disease is evil, is part of God's design but lets use our 'intelligence' to consider this design for a moment macrocosmically, the earth is a system, put to much Co2 into the atmosphere for instance - there are consequences, life is like that, right now there are countless variables, systematic, genetic, environmental - all contributing to who we are and what we experience.


Faith tells me God wants good for you and for me and for everyone, while there are many variables in the system - cause and effect  ; what is true - and what I do applaud loudly is this; whatever happens to us, faith tells us that God means it - that God will turn the situation around - for good, always good


God being all powerful is ultimately responcible for everything, because he designed us, and everything else for that matter, but to say God causes disease runs contrary to the expressed desire of our Saviour and Jesus' nature and purpose, yet this is the mystery out of disease comes glory , comes good .

9:11 am edt


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