MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 12, 2009/Christian Newswire --
In his weekly devotional published today, Brian Shilhavy raises the question: Who is responsible for providing your healthcare? Mr. Shilhavy first quotes several verses in the Old Testament which state that the LORD God is the one who heals and restores health, and that the priests were the ones who administered God's health care plan. He claims that believing Jews in the Old Testament times would easily answer the question as to who was responsible for their healthcare with these basic facts.
Next, Mr. Shilhavy quotes verses from the New Testament that show Jesus was the one everyone came to for healing during his earthly ministry, and that he turned over the ministry of healthcare to his disciples after taking care of our sins by his sacrificial death on the cross. Mr. Shilhavy claims that the healthcare plan of the New Testament churches was to seek out the leaders of the church when one was sick, as is directed by James in James 5:13-20.
Mr. Shilhavy then asks what response Christians today in the 21st century would give in response to the question "Who is responsible for your healthcare?" He doubts that they would respond the same way believers in biblical times would have responded to this question, and that most believers today think "healthcare" is equivalent to "medical care" and the domain of drugs, doctors, insurance companies, and hospitals. He writes that instead of seeing Jesus as the one who is responsible for our healthcare, and the leaders of the church as responsible for administering it, we have turned to the world system built upon the lie of evolution and humanism, and made it our idol as we trust in it for our "health." The entire article is found here.
Brian Shilhavy earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Bible/Greek from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and his Master of Arts degree in linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the founder and current president of Tropical Traditions, Inc., which sells Virgin Coconut Oil and organic foods. He writes about health topics from a creation view point at Created4health.org, dealing with such topics as genetically modified foods, science, health, the role of government, and many others.
