Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Is Faith a substitute for Medicine?

Okay let's think about this slowly and carefully....
- Why do you take Paracetamol for headache but reject Epidural for labour pains?
- Why do you take injections for malaria but refuse insulin injections for Diabetes?
- Why do you wear glasses for your weak eyes but you refuse medication for hypertension?
- Why do you accept POP for a broken bone but refuse C/S for your baby whose life is in danger?
- Why would you have no problem with medicines for cough and cold and catarrh but when it comes to cancer it's 'not your portion' and you run away from the doctor like he's an agent of the devil?
Please let's make up our minds.
Either God can heal everything or He can't.
Either God supports medical advancements and interventions or He doesn't.
If you believe in 'faith alone'; fine.
If you believe in 'faith plus medicine', fine.
But be consistent.
Don't take your own medications at home and then come out and tell others it is prayer and fasting that healed you.
Don't go for 5 cycles of IVF and then omit this part during your 'church testimony' with your bouncing baby triplets.
Don't tell your congregation C/S is not their portion meanwhile your 3 kids were delivered that way.
Don't preach "all you need is faith"; "whose report will you believe" and discourage people from following their own doctors advice meanwhile you have health insurance coverage for your whole family and you don't miss your yearly medical check-ups.
Practice what you preach.

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