Would that not have been a more lasting positive approach to sickness than healing a few?  Why did he not replace camels with jet planes, and establish schools in math, science and technology?  We all know that he could have.  Why didn't he?  May sound like a trite question, but it deserves an answer.
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I have sometimes wondered about how Jesus, being God, was able to contain the infinite wisdom and knowledge of God in the finite space of a human cranium. The best thing that I have been able to figure out is that He had access to the fullness of deity, but did not make full use of it in some ways. For example, Paul's letter to the Phillippian church  speaks of Jesus not clinging to his prerogatives as God, but emptying Himself. It seems that He did not retain all knowledge of the future and technology, etc., so that he would rely on the Holy Spirit to do His works, just as we are to relay on Him. Jesus' entire life on earth was a ministry, not only his passion and death and resurrection. He served as an example of how we are to serve. \n\nSo, when Jesus was faced with a situation, He drew on the power of the Holy Spirit to work miracles, to prophesy, to heal, not His own power. In a sense, he gave up the right to decide what was the best approach. He was led of the Spirit to a degree that probably nobody else ever was. He was fulfilling a specific mission in His life, which was to redeem us, not necessarily to establish schools, etc. (more on this in a moment.)\n\nThe miracles Jesus did were to establish credibility so that people would believe He was the promised Messiah. (He told people to believe on the basis of the miracles, if nothing else.) The specific miracles were unimportant in the sense that He could probably have just spoken and healed everybody in Judea at once. But that would not have led them to faith in Him. They had to be done in such a way as to get people's attention and for them to see.\n\nNow, as to schools, it has sometimes struck me that the book of Acts is, as it says in the first sentence, "...all that Jesus began to do and teach..." The book is sometimes called the acts of the apostles, but I think they would be the first to give Jesus the glory for all those deeds. \n\nWhen I reflect on what has been accomplished, with Christians over the centuries establishing schools, hospitals, orphanages, museums, beautiful and permanent works of architecture and engineering, I am sometimes amazed, and I say, Jesus did it all. It is all from Him, and this would never have come to pass without Him. So, in a sense, He did do all these things. I don't know why He didn't do them sooner. But I know He knows what he is doing.
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Dr. Salk's last years were spent searching for a vaccine against AIDS. I am wondering that too. Maybe natural causes.
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This question is asked on a daily basis. I've herd him described also as an "evil genius" by parties on the left. Is this because they can't match wits with him? Remember he Won, not stole TWO elections. \nMy only question is why are the moderators allowing such asinine question to be asked in the first place!
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Well I guess free thinking in  it simplicity isn't the sin, yet God knew when Eve ate the forbidden fruit, her free thinking would allow humankind to sin. He realized it was inevitable, that's why it's seen as sin-like. As for healing and medicine...we were meant to heal. It's our way of correcting the sin our "free thinking" caused.
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"He who is without sin, cast the first stone."  All of you should be ashamed for the hatred that you show towards indviduals, even though your reference to hate is only subtle.  If we asked for every president to apologize for their mistakes, where would we be?  I'm not condoning the man, but I cannot accept the answers you give as those from knowledgable, thinking, unbiased people.
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We needed to see His suffering to understand the depth of His love.  Because unfortunately, we tend to be hard-headed.  We needed to see how deep our sin really was/is.  I can see why you'd wonder why he didn't just click His heels three times like Dorothy, but it wouldn't have quite the same effect.  ^__^  I mean, can you imagine if the Wizard of Oz was our salvation story?  =P  heh.
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b/c God did not create an AC for everybloody
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Of course he wouldn't step down and forsake his billions, just because someone else discovered something that helps the enviroment. By the way, there is no such thing as clean free energy, it doesn't exsist. Every form of energy we use today is has some enviromental problems and nothing is life is absolutely free.
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I believe that, no, God did not "plan" it this way.  But, I think that God knew that humans were going to be weak.  Yes, I know that that sounds like a contradiction, but, honestly that is the best that I could come up with.  I cannot speak for God, but I know that He knows best.
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If they took him off the medicine, how long would he survive?  People praying has an effect of renewing his strength to live on, but other than that, it's all a matter of faith.\n\nSchneb I don't understand your query.  My point is simply that if you took him off the medicine he'd be a gonner.  I cannot ascertain the psychological power of prayer without data.
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He was a professor of History (as I remember it).  Who happens to be one of those people who deny the Holocaust.  He has been for a while, I guess he just did it in the wrong place this time.
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Why don't we teach animism/shamanism in Medical school and germ theory in Bible class?  That the Sun orbits the earth in Astronomy class?\n\nAbout as relevant don't you think?
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Well, it is claimed he was purposely taking the wrong meds so that he could return to Russia for health care, and delay his trial. Apparently, his plan backfired.\n\nI think the UN and tribunal would have been perfectly happy to have kept him alive and the trial going forever - a lot of people (aides, staff, researchers, etc.) and a lot of lawyers were making a LOT of money off the whole thing.
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Um....no brain, no pain??\n   Seriously, the mind can do some absolutely incredible things, including increased pain tolerance. Other than being dramatic, though, I can't see how this helps him much. I mean if he were sleeping, and he got assaulted by a couple of Ninja Cheerleaders leaping upon him from chairs- he'd be ALL OVER that. What I'd like to see is whether he can get himself into this meditative state quickly enough for it to be helpful in a fight and whether it would do him any good.
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Thank you for the article- it had some interesting insights!\n\nI have long thought that there was something odd in the part of Genesis 2:1 and the phrasing Genesis 1 used. I've been looking for things that explained it and your article did just that.\n\nIt simply makes no sense that the God who sent His people to the wilderness for 40 years would have (or needed to) rush the planet in 6 days, then fake various items to make it seem much older. He does not work that way at any other time, so why then?\n\nI have said for years that when the Bible and science or reality conflict, our understanding of one or the other is flawed- and I think we've really messed up our understanding of the Bible!
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To one of the posters before me, I can only say that some people need to get educated before telling others to check their facts!  Most embryonic stem cell research is done on the stem cells of embryos that would have been discarded anyway; fertility clinics routinely thrash embryos that aren't showing satisfactory growth rates suitable for In vitro.  So the embryo dies no matter what!  Might as well put the tissue to use so that the death isn't in vain--who knows how many lives the research on one embryo could save?  And as far as grouping OTHER stem cell research into this whole "morality" issue... I'd hope these soapbox preachers realize that blood cells come from stem cells that are produced by bone marrow--and we all have 'em.  No lives (other than cellular) are lost for research--and many bone marrow transplant patients owe their lives to what's been done so far.  Blood stem cells aren't capable of forming anything other than blood cells, while embryonic stem cells have the potential of becoming any of the body's tissues.  Honest to goodness, do a little research!\n\nNOW, to answer the question asked... yeah, I think he'll veto it.  He'll kick himself if he or someone he loves becomes ill with a disease that might have been curable if he'd have actually helped the research.  But for now, I'd see him standing on the Biblewagon and doing whatever he can to make sure nothing useful happens.  (Kind of like he's been doing from day one, eh?)
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I wouldnt have thought so, now if he woke up tomorro and both his legs were healed that'd be a miracle!\n\nI like Txlady's answer him being alive could be a miracle!!!