In answer to a query by a friendTHERE is a confusion among Christians that believers should not use medicines. However, the Bible nowhere makes it statutory or law for the believer to refrain from medicines. In fact, the Bible is against humans making laws that God has not made. Matthew 15.9; Isaiah 29.13. There are only the Ten commandments and the Two Great Commandments of Jesus Christ. Matthew 22.37.The Bible never tells us that using medicines or any scientific invention (e.g. ovens, utensils, agricultural technology, weapons, etc) is sign...
Ego Masks
Everyone’s great, or so one feels.If no such feeling, can anyone live?The desire to rule is not very bad, not at all.Only misdirected.To have dominion was man created.But he can’t even rule his own spirit.A slave to passion, a slave to the world,Unruled passion, kings of destiny – but still slaves,If one can will, but one can’t.I’m better than most, better than all.If none such feeling, won’t I continually fall?Vainful ego, vain contentions,Ego-contentions, Ego-war,Ego-affronts, Ego-masks,Ego-presumptions, Ego-affections,‘I’ must prevail, ‘truth’...
