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Hello.

My name is Chris Elkins, and I'm here today with Dr. Jim Denison.

To talk about a really big subject, it'll be hard to do in just such a short period of time.

But, you know, every day we hear more and more news about the medical challenges,

the diseases, the pandemics, everything that's going on around us in a medical kind of genre. But with an ancient book like the Bible, how well does

it speak into this current situation that we're facing? Jim, the question is, what does the Bible

say about medicine? Well, Chris, you're right. We can talk

about this for hours and hours, obviously, certainly couldn't we? But to try to do this as

briefly as possible and as practically as possible, I think I'd want to make four points. First

of all, God made our bodies and God still cares about our bodies. We're all made in God's image, Genesis chapter 1. And even though we're fallen, God still cares about our bodies. We're all made in God's image, Genesis

chapter one. And even though we're fallen, God still cares about our health and about our well-being.

You see Jesus healing bodies. You see healing all through the Old New Testament even today.

So this idea that your body is somehow inherently so sinful and so fallen that

that God wouldn't care about it is really Greek philosophy.

The Greeks had this idea that your soul existed in some pre-incarned statement, sin we would say,

and it was punished by being put in your body. And the point of life is to purify your soul so

it can go back where it came from. Well, that's Greek philosophy. That's not biblical theology. God made your body.

God cares about your body. If your body was so inherently sinful that God wouldn't care about it,

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