Preserving Dignity Or Playing God? How the MAiD Act Misses the Mark

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sympathy, compassion, pain, suffering - the arguments for “assisted dying” use terms the Christian can understand. But is medically assisted suicide ever something the Christian can permit? Dr. Greg Gifford discusses the issue of “assisted dying” and laws like the MAiD act, and the implications of this societal shift upon human dignity and the sanctity of life. Transformed Podcast Episode 160 | January 29, 2026 ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is? What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.9	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.6	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.3	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.5	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.5	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word.
0:23.1	This is Transform.
0:25.0	And now your host,
0:26.4	Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at the Master's University
0:30.0	and certified biblical counselor Dr. Greg Gifford.
0:36.1	Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, Welcome back to Transform.
0:37.7	My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, and I'm your host.
0:39.9	And today we are in part two of our biblical counseling story on medical assistance and dying.
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1:10.4	students. Recently, we were in class.
1:12.4	We brought up, Why, as my therapist told me on Amazon and started reading the bad reviews.
1:17.1	I'm okay. All right, back to our content today. Now, this is part two, because New York is currently working through legislation for medical assistance and dying,
1:32.3	I thought it would be helpful to time a biblical counseling story on what is made, that's medical
1:37.6	assistance and dying, and how do we think about that biblically and frame that biblically?
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