[metmom]

You are right. The science says diseases are caused by microorganisms, and the Bible says they are caused by "demons." Now, if you have pneumonia, which of these "possibe" explanations will you bet your life on?

The Bible doesn't state that ALL diseases or conditions are a result of demonic activity, so you're working from a flawed set of presumptions.

Medical science can do OK with certain situations. But if you don't have something that can be easily fixed by surgery or Lipitor, or insulin, medical science is useless.

Doctors are NOT interested in really helping people and getting to the root of what is causing your problems, especially if you have some problem that doesn't fit into one of their nice, neat little diagnosis compartments.

[little jeremiah]

I can certainly attest to that, metmom. Medical science has saved my life twice.

And other methods have saved my life and my health as well. I am walking because of non-western therapies including herbs.

And besides, the best medical care in the world, whether modern or traditional, can only work with God’s will; His will is the ultimate rule.

[betty boop]

kosta50 wrote: You are right. The science says diseases are caused by microorganisms, and the Bible says they are caused by "demons." Now, if you have pneumonia, which of these "possibe" explanations will you bet your life on?

But kosta is missing the larger point. One and the same underlying apperceptive experience is here being articulated in different languages, according to the particular cultural and historical context from which the respective languages could be expressed.

For example, a person living in the fifteenth century could hardly have known anything about relativity or quantum theory. But does this "ignorance" mean he's stupid? Or that what he does know is in any way false?

Or to put it even more crudely, in "olden times" what we today call "microorganisms" were called "demons." So if you have pneumonia, does it really make any difference what you call its putative cause, then or now? The point is you have to treat the disease, whatever you call its cause.

[kosta50]

The Bible doesn't state that ALL diseases or conditions are a result of demonic activity, so you're working from a flawed set of presumptions

Which diseases are caused by "demons?"

Medical science can do OK with certain situations. But if you don't have something that can be easily fixed by surgery or Lipitor, or insulin, medical science is useless.

Medicine is limited in its reach. If you think you have a better, more reliable method you are always free to refuse medical science.

You are also free to test gravity from an airplane without a parachute.

There is only so much they know and there are legal restrictions to what they can do.

Some are unethical, but then so are people in every occupation, including pastors.