| 1. For years I became increasingly
puzzled by the amount of pain, suffering, tragedy and
death in the world. From the smallest animals to the largest,
all seem to live lives fearful of predators whether animal
or human or bacterial. Did God devise vicious animals,
destructive parasites, and deadly germs?
Is this the good creation the Bible
speaks of
God creating?
Lesson One: the beauty of nature we
often sing about in church is massively compromised
by the harshness and brutality and danger that is ever
present as an obstinate fact, which is commonly overlooked
because we become accustomed to it.
2. Then my wife contracted terminal
cancer. I immediately turned a great deal of energy
and study into this new situation. I noted the perfectly
enormous expenditures society is making in the medical
world. However, I was surprised to discover that this
enormous expense is almost entirely focused on healing
the sick not seeking the source of the sickness. Of
course, that figures, since the only heavy money readily
available is from people in pain and sickness.
Lesson Two: Neither in the practice
of medicine (doctors and hospitals) nor in the pharmaceutical
world is there—nor can there be—significant
concern or focus upon the origins of disease. Why? People
pay to be cured. They don’t readily offer their
life savings to attack the roots of diseases they do
not yet have or already have. Only in the universities
and in government is there substantial possibility of
non-remunerative foundational research, and even there
much of what both the government and universities do
is driven by pharmaceutical funds.
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