Missing Faith?: preferring mans' health wisdom over God's natural healing, herbs
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As a child, my sister-in-law stuck a rusty nail in her foot. Her grandmother successfully treated it with one of her natural remedies, not a trip to the doctor. Do many presume that the God of wisdom and nature and all healing has placed nothing here for such injuries and sickness? Is modern medicine always superior to God’s natural healing? Has God not wanted the millions living prior to drugs to have no natural remedies”?
Yes, we still pray for a quick fix miracle or man centered protocyls to work but is that all God put here for us? I see this as a big theological blind spot, a slap in the face of a caring God of nature and all healing. When hurting, Christians are as quick to run to mans’ drug cabinet as lost people are. Natural solutions are off the radar. Regarding herbs and natural health, many seem to assume, “Oh that is just a little bush in the woods.” No, that is God’s medicine chest.
“And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat” (Gen 1.29) (Isa 38.21).
Blind spots: (1) natural remedies, herbs, minerals, etc, have powerful, forgotten healing properties; (2) they are free of the often system-wide, egregious, side effects of many, many drugs; (3) God’s superior, therapies can usually treat the underlying cause not just the symptom or pain only; (4) for many centuries, natural remedies were commonplace, normal, natural, effective; (5) beasts of burden (mules, oxen, camels, elephants) needing tremendous energy, caloric intake. They get it where? From a little “garden salad” or pile of grain. God has made it so simple. These huge, muscular animals eat their veggies; (6) we have never had more health information and worse health; (7) breakfast vitamins alone are rubbing a rabbit’s foot not serious natural health.
Do many believers have only a one legged God? - a God who treats our spiritual but not all our natural needs?
Yes, we still pray for a quick fix miracle or man centered protocyls to work but is that all God put here for us? I see this as a big theological blind spot, a slap in the face of a caring God of nature and all healing. When hurting, Christians are as quick to run to mans’ drug cabinet as lost people are. Natural solutions are off the radar. Regarding herbs and natural health, many seem to assume, “Oh that is just a little bush in the woods.” No, that is God’s medicine chest.
“And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat” (Gen 1.29) (Isa 38.21).
Blind spots: (1) natural remedies, herbs, minerals, etc, have powerful, forgotten healing properties; (2) they are free of the often system-wide, egregious, side effects of many, many drugs; (3) God’s superior, therapies can usually treat the underlying cause not just the symptom or pain only; (4) for many centuries, natural remedies were commonplace, normal, natural, effective; (5) beasts of burden (mules, oxen, camels, elephants) needing tremendous energy, caloric intake. They get it where? From a little “garden salad” or pile of grain. God has made it so simple. These huge, muscular animals eat their veggies; (6) we have never had more health information and worse health; (7) breakfast vitamins alone are rubbing a rabbit’s foot not serious natural health.
Do many believers have only a one legged God? - a God who treats our spiritual but not all our natural needs?
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Using a computer, the internet, even website such as SI are quite unnatural means of communication. It is the result of man’s manipulation of many physical properties. Maybe we should just stick to either verbal, hand/body/natural physical object signaling, or for writing, natural pigments and only using natural and not processes sources for our pages upon which to write. But I am sure we’ll hear from you again, FredK, on this oh so unnatural means of communication. :)
My friend, I am flummoxed by your comment - too oblique for me. Also, are you being condescending, unkind? Did I say something to offend you, my brother?
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