tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post778296201967906902..comments2023-11-05T02:55:10.230-06:00Comments on Gottesdienst Online: Antinomians have always been and always will be with us...Pr. H. R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16756503062523543708noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-26094723450626317962013-08-07T14:44:37.549-05:002013-08-07T14:44:37.549-05:00Absolutely splendid stuff. And thank you, mightil...Absolutely splendid stuff. And thank you, mightily, for the kind sharing.<br /><br />Hospitals are built for the ailing; but if the ailing hallucinate that all is well, or believe that the south-of-the-border cantina doling out the laetrile is the answer, of what benefit is the hospital?<br /><br />Those with schizophrenia may take their medicine, to all appearances; but many are convinced as to its worthlessness, or deem it unnecessary, and so they "cheek" it. They eventually spit it out, when unobserved. <br /><br />Similarly, the Lord Medicine of Immortality does nothing for the unrepentant cheeky. <br /><br />In the Markan and Lucan passage cited by Gerhard, Christ says His arms are exclusively for the sick, and He means it ... and so came the invited lame, the blind, the mute, and the despised of society (despised for cause, actually, whether the shunned leper or the shunned little thief named Zaccheus). But these people all knew they had a problem, regretted such very deeply and thence avidly sought Jesus the Christ for a healing turn ... to the point of a desperate clinging to the hem of His garment (Mk 14:36). And it worked, Mark says, it worked to perfection.<br /><br />I suspect the well and the sophisticated never thought of stooping to Jesus' hem.<br /><br />If you were sick in the land of Gennesaret, however, you stooped. If you were righteous, you didn't. If Jesus weren't actually Present in Person or in heart, there'd be no need to stoop to a cognition. The spiritual hospitals of today are really no different, when it comes to the behaviors inside them.<br /><br />In medical hospitals, today, patients generally don't party or sip lattes. They're disconsolate, anxious about what ails and poisons them, and troubled in both body and spirit. The spiritual hospitals today, all too often, are pretty different.<br /><br />Your (unworthy) servant,<br />Herr Doktor, S.S.P. Michael L. Anderson, M.D., Ph.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158953802996685938noreply@blogger.com