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Health and Medicine
“Is anyone among you sick?” James wrote., “Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.” For millennia, God has brought miraculous physical healing to his people. And he has given them curiosity and drive to make advances in medicine and in our understanding of the body. But with those advances have come new ethical dilemmas as prosperity gospel preachers have stretched the biblical promises of miraculous healing into guarantees and incantations. What can a sick Christian truly hope for? And how much technology should a Christian use to stave off illness and death?
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