It is no doubt a daunting task to take on some of the numerous spiritual issues that arise when exploring alternative medicine methodologies.  No doubt I am far from the most qualified individual to address the multitude of complex issues involved but my own personal experience and the experiences of those I’ve watched around me lead me to believe that we must speak to these issues.  There is too much at stake.  So until I find a better voices seeking to address this void, I will do my best to speak my concerns and convictions as cogently as I can.

Unfortunately there is a dearth of scripturally sound examinations of many of the strange semi-spiritual scientific sounding healing methodologies out there.  I will attempt to link to them when I find them but will try and also spend time laying out the scriptural, theoretical, philosophical, and scientific reasons why I disagree with the methodologies to be described and believe them to more often then not be mediums for spiritual deception.

As a Seventh-day Adventist I believe in a Great Controversy worldview where the Devil is a real being who was created by an all knowing loving God who gave him the freedom to rebel and deceive those around him.  Instead of immediately destroying Lucifer and his angels, God chose the longer more painful approach of presenting truth through demonstration.  It is this approach of demonstration through evidence and appeal to examination of His Ways that I believes lies at the root of the difference between God-like and Lucifer-like healing methodologies.  Most every religion in the world has “healing” methodologies and experiences that harmonize with and support the beliefs and values of that religion. This truth has not changed in the modern scientific age. The nature and characteristics of these remedies however now includes the language and technicalities of the modern scientific era.

It is my hope that an exposure of the principles and issues at stake in the methods and characteristics used by Christ vs. those repeatedly demonstrated through Lucifer will help us become discerning and God fearing as we examine the increasing variety of holistic integrative remedies available.

For starters I encourage you to read these articles excerpted from the Journal of Christian Nursing.

May we each grow day by day in the knowledge and discernment firmly grounded in love.

“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment.” Philippians 1:9