In the words of Dr. Paul Brand, My profession of surgery depends entirely on the body’s own healing system. When I set a fracture, I merely align two ends of bone properly; the body must lay down the calcium needed for them to rejoin, or my work would prove futile. The Christian heals because he or she has the kind of body that was designed by God to be equipped to overcome injury and infection. The non-Christian body is likewise equipped, but may be more misused so that its healing functions may not be as well focused. Yet, like the sun which God makes to shine on the righteous and the
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this is truly remarkable. I think it’s more than reasonable to conclude that our bodies were designed like this from the beginning, so that even in a world without sin and death and danger, our bodies already had the capacity to heal. knowing what was coming, God didn’t make us hopelessly dependent on him; he gave us the resources to fight back (in varying capacities) against entropy and injury. in his mercy he didn’t abandon us to the wolves, but he also didn’t make the wolves magically disappear.
