2007-07-04 18:00:23 · 21 answers · asked by I WALK FUNNY 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God has stock in Pfizer.
Although, God's biggest selling product is called, placebo. Benny Hinn is a main distributor.
2007-07-04 18:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
By meds I am going to assume you mean holistic and natural remedies that would have come from creation rather than the industry manufactured medicines...
I guess the answer would be that God gave man free will which is likely to get him in trouble once in a while (interestingly there were no "meds" to fix what Eve ate). When man became afflicted by whatever means then I guess God wanted us to have all the resources to counter those afflictions. We all eat something we shouldn't once in a while I guess...
It would make sense that God would make some kind of holistic matrix that had the capabilities to be beneficial for most things that man would likely face in his lifetime.
The canopy theory would dictate that vegetation and indeed living creatures would have been a lot different in pre-deluvian times which due to hightened oxygen concentration in the atmosphere, would make the effects of herbal based medication more potent and effective.
Magic mushrooms would have been killer......
Theres also the question of sin bringing death and decay to the human form. This would cause all sorts of maladies although it begs the question that if God made all these holistic meds for the failing human condition then he knew beforehand what was going to happen in the garden of eden.
2007-07-04 18:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by chimerauk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that, too, is part of the design. We were not designed to be perfect, nor put into a situation in which perfection was the most probable outcome. It was God's intention for man to fall into sin, as clearly indicated by the placing of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in a place where it could be eaten from. From what we know it was a single, unique tree, not a type of tree, and there was one other single, unique tree, the Tree of Life, also not a type of tree, present the Garden of Eden. Eat of the Tree of Life and live forever. Eat of the Tree of the Knowledge... and fall into sin. Eat of them both, live forever in sin, which is why man was expelled from the Garden. It is this act which is one of the greatest acts of mercy God has performed, second only to redemption.
2007-07-04 18:17:38 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are correct, of course. Medicine is the work of the devil. True christians, those who know that evolution is bunk, refuse all medicine and prefer to let god cure all disease. Intelligent design means that only evil people ever get sick.
2007-07-04 19:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before sin entered the world, there was not sickness, death, disease, and man would've lived forever as was God's plan. But man sinned and creation groans until the earth is renewed again. God's original plan is not forever ruined, as Jesus will renew, restore this earth to Paradise again and we who love the Lord will live forever as originally planned. Read the Bible to get the whole picture, the directions to heaven, the plan of God and the need for Jesus and so on. God bless
2007-07-04 19:05:56 · answer #5 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent design -- I have heard this term a lot lately! -- Isn't the brain a part of this intelligent design? And if so, wouldn't you expect it to do the work it was intellegently designed to do? Such as creating medicines to heal afflictions----these illnesses that man has brought upon the world should, reasonably, be healed by man--shouldn't they?
2007-07-04 18:07:09 · answer #6 · answered by Native Spirit 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I like their answer; Sin. what a crock. At least I haven't seen anyone blame the cosmic charlatan(satan) yet.
The concept of original sin is ****. To me the story of eve eating the apple has more to do with a story a group of misogynist men made up to justify their horrible treatment of women.
2007-07-04 18:10:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
diseases are also "intelligently designed", apparently. I'm not making this up, michael behe implied as much with his discussion of the bacterial flagellum, and is even more explicit with his discussion of drug-resistant malaria. behe's god seems to be not a very nice guy?
2007-07-04 18:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Amen Sparkles!
They're always trying to disprove or find fault. And they say God is picky? Sheesh!
To Asker: We are "wonderfully and fearfully made", not immortal. What the heck do you expect "us" to do if we get hurt, just like there and bleed? No intelligence in that.... is there.
2007-07-04 18:06:19 · answer #9 · answered by GeriGeri 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Of course we are intelligently designed. Our bodies do tend to wear out eventually so we use our own intelligence to design things, one of which is medicine. So, what is the problem?
2007-07-04 18:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by MeanKitty 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋