The Relationship Between Medicine And Religion

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In 1981, a Christian woman called Dodie Osteen was diagnosed with a monastic cancer of the liver. She was told that without chemotherapy, she would only have weeks to live. Her husband told the doctor that they believed in miracles, and the miracle worker, Jesus. She went home without chemotherapy, and prayed to God for help in curing her. She lived as though she was not sick, and went about her daily life as normal, all the while praying to God to heal her. And she healed! She lived on without chemotherapy. Years later, she was tested and it was as if the cancer had never been there at all.

So what do we know from this? We know that she did have the cancer. We know that it was healed without any help from the doctors or anything scientific, rather using the healing power of her God. So, how did this happen?

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Growing up, a huge influence of what you believe is based off of people such as parents, teachers, and friends. People believing in different things have different types of authoritarian figures. Science, for example, tells us to listen to reason and logic. Meanwhile, religion tells us to listen to a God and our emotions.

So, to what extent can we believe what doctors and medical medicine tell us, and to what extent can we believe what a God and the teachings of that God tell us?

The relationship between religion and science has been studied by many people, such as philosophers, theologians, scientists and others over a long period of time. There are different perspectives on this issue, some saying that the relationship is conflict based, or one of harmony, or even nonexistent.

From the perspective of ethics, in Dodie’s testimony, she frequently mentions and emphasizes about how she focused on the moral and ethical teachings of the bible to help her heal. If we were to say that religion is subjective, then are the ethics and moral teachings of the bible also just an

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