The Ultimate Physician

Assisted suicide is a hot topic again, stirring the whole question of God and medicine.

As a healthy western Christ-follower, I can only observe and think that ‘dying well’ is a step too far in medicine; or is it? How far do we go limiting what medicine is good, and what medicine is interfering with God’s perfect will? Some may even still argue that medicine is ultimately destroying the perfect will of God, scorning everything from aspirin through to Chemotherapy.

Severe suffering, disease and death can make euthanasia almost seem plausible. Scripturally, the Bible does not give any allowance for man to wilfully take his own life. It is GOD ALONE who governs life. Job 1:21 declares “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away.”

How do you feel about medicine and God?

Is it wrong to receive — or seek — medical assistance when we are in pain, or ill, or even just in discomfort? And how does this contrast with relying on Divine healing and faith?

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