One day four prominent evangelicals met for breakfast with a secular journalist. The journalist was writing a story about faith and disease. She posed this question: “Why did Jesus heal? After all, healing people doesn’t get them into heaven. But Christ sure used up a lot of his time healing. Why?”
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The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
Here we review Professor Andrew Delbanco's 1995 book about how Satan has vanished from the Western worldview and why it matters. Delbanco explains how Satan has gradually transformed from the embodiment and explanation of evil in the Puritan period, into something much more trivial in the world of today.
The Difference Between Treatment, Prevention and Eradication
Medical practitioners are like the people at the bottom of the cliff patching up the people who have fallen off. Those who try to prevent disease are like the people at the edge of the cliff warning, "Hey, there's a cliff here!" But working to eradicate disease is akin to removing the cliff altogether.
Are Disease Pathogens the Work of God or Satan?
Our current theological literature, to my knowledge, does not seriously consider disease pathogens from a theological point of view—that is, are they the work of God or Satan? Much less does this literature ask the question, Does God mandate us to eliminate pathogens?
John Piper's Thoughts Related to the RWI
Quoting Piper: "In recent years Ralph Winter has waved another wartime flag. It's worth waving here. God may use it to send some of you in a direction of ministry you never thought was ministry. Winter has been calling our attention to the effects of sin and Satan at the microbiological level..."
