Posted on 08/31/2014 5:30:28 PM PDT by xzins
After hearing Dr. Kent Brantly publicly thank God for healing him from the deadly Ebola virus, atheist Sam de Brito posted a scathing article at the Sydney Morning Herald that questions Brantly as a true man of medicine. The article entitled: “Science, Not God, Saved Him from Ebola,” takes issue with Brantly crediting God for his healing. Brantly, a Samaritan’s Purse doctor received experimental Ebola treatments at Emory University Hospital after his emergency evacuation from Liberia. He was released from the hospital on August 21, saying, “I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life.”
While de Brito's perspective is shared by many who doubt the reality of the supernatural, what his critique refuses to grant is the possibility that both aspects of Brantly's healing—the scientific and the spiritual—are compatible. If Dr. Brantly, a trained medical doctor, gives God ultimate credit for saving his life, does that necessarily discount the effort of skilled physicians who used the most of scientific advancements they could in his treatment? No, says Christian apologist Jonathan Sarfati. Such attempts may seem to place Christians on the horns of a dilemma but it is a false dichotomy. Furthermore, anti-theists actually choose not to acknowledge that science pre-supposes the existence of the biblical God.
As Rich Deem at GodandScience.org argues, God uses the advances of science and medicine in the hands of skilled physicians as instruments of healing. Ultimately, every breath is from the Lord, even the breath of those who disbelieve (1 Samuel 2:6).
Your turn: What do you think of Dr. Brantly being mocked for giving God credit for his healing?
Alex Crain is the editor of Christianity.com
God is not mocked. Good thing for him that we know God is longsuffering.
When everything in their lives crumble, I think atheists have nothing. Absolutely nothing.
It's not what I think. It's what the Lord said.
16 1"All this I have told you so that you will not fall away 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me."
Why are atheists so mad at a god they say doesn’t exist?
Medicine is notorious for not being an exact science. After all, look at the people who are sick or dying because of crude or unknown remedies.
Smarmy know it all deniers of God, anger me. Lord help me I want to smackthe in the face for their eletist, paternal, “I’m the only smart one” attitudes.
Exactly. Even the medicine used on this doc was suspect.
And why do bonafide miracles drive them nuts!
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
It’s because the G-d they don’t believe in did it ....
Isn’t God mocked, when the disease, created by God, was given to the good doctor and he, Brantly, had the audacity to seek a cure?
And just Who gave the doctors the skill, knowledge, medicine, and equipment to do their human best at relieving pain and saving lives?
Yes. Sort of like when robbers, created by God, rob a bank and the cops have the audacity to try and stop them.
Why are atheists so mad at a god they say doesn’t exist?
Now that is a good point! Why don’t we get that question asked and answered on the evening news.
But the robbers and the cops have free will and chose to do their respective behaviors.
I am reminded of the bumper sticker:
God is dead -Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead -God
>>> Isn’t God mocked, when the disease, created by God, was given to the good doctor and he, Brantly, had the audacity to seek a cure?
Quite the contrary. The disease may exist to show the glory of God through a cure. If I recall, Jesus said the same about blind/lame/diseased folk... the glory of God could be revealed through their being healed.
fortunately, it matters NOT what the athiest thinks...while science played a part in the cure, God created those who came up with the cure.....kind of like abortion, maybe one of those aborted would have come up with the cure for......(you fill in the blanks) and to any athiest reading this, I hope that your mom, dad, wife, husband, child did not die as the result of the disease that the aborted genius would have cured....
Well then God must be very dramatic... to give someone Ebola, just to reveal his glory...
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