>> “But if “insulin is a bandaid,” then so are other medications” <<
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I do not disagree with that.
And the fact that the brain of a depressed individual shows differences from a normal brain is no indication for turning from the ways that God prescribed to the ways of men.
Confession, repentance, and the resulting sanctification is the path to repairing that brain, and no drug or doctor can do that.
>> “Have you ever seen someone who has vegetative depression because someone told them their faith wasn’t strong enough so they quit taking their medication?” <<
Don’t know if I have or not, but the bad advise was not delivered by God. Nowhere does God’s word say that disease is due to a lack of faith; Yeshua healed by forgiving sin (that is what he said himself), and after doing so he said “Go and sin no more.”
Doesn’t that offer any clue to you? Faith Healing is a MSM canard. It doesn’t come from God’s word.
Yeshua healed by forgiving sin (that is what he said himself), and after doing so he said “Go and sin no more.”
I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm saying that, using that line of reasoning/logic/Scripture/thinking, then all people who confess, repent, and are 'sanctified' should be disease-free. They are not. Are there other variables that I need to consider? Because I've done "all of the above," and I still have this herniated lumbar disc that hurts like the dickens sometimes. :-)
I suspect we'll never see eye-to-eye on this, so we may need to just agree to disagree.