Solid Scriptural Basis
For Alternative Medicine

What Do Bible Words Say?

When you research key Hebrew and Greek words in the Bible for sickness, disease and healing, the definitions of the specific words form a single, cohesive concept of biblical wellness.

Wellness is not the absence of disease, according to the Bible's words. Rather, wellness constitutes true cures, wholeness being "knit together," being peaceful, complete, saved and serene.

There is no Biblical reference to any short-term disease management gimmicks, nor is "disease" considered outside of the total context of the entire person. And there are no biblical references to support stubborn adherence to medicines and therapies which really do not work.

Clearly, natural/alternative medicine, as practiced today, conforms to biblical principles of wellness and healing, whereas conventional medicine's emphasis on short term gimmicks to deal with disease, such as heart bypass surgery, and clearly failed cancer therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiation, resoundingly fail the test of biblical soundness.

 

The Garden of Eden

Before the fall of man, God says in the Bible that all of the necessary food for both humans and animals was supplied by plants. The leaves of trees contained medicines, God said.

The Bible has no reference to pharmaceuticals--or any non-natural, non-plant substance--needed for healing and wellness. Clearly,the Bible's way of medicine is from plants.

 

Allopathic Medicine Non-biblical

Since modern allopathic (synthethic drugs and dubious surgery) medicine fails to cure--only mask and manipulate various symptoms--it is not biblical.

Allopathy is also non-biblical because it does not consider the soundness, wellness, peace and serenity of the whole person. Instead, allopathy focuses solely on disease symptoms.

Allopathy is clearly non-biblical since it relies on man's pride--as exhibited in high tech surgical wizardry, as in heart bypass surgery. The Bible calls for cures, not short term pallatives.

Since allopathy fails to go after true cures, personal wholeness, wellness, peace, and serenity, and since allopathy dismisses herbal medicine, we believe that allopathy is totally non-biblical, even when performed by the most devout Christian doctors.

Allopathy is not a biblically-based system of medicine. Rather, it is a crass exhibition of man's arrogance and greed.

 

Is Alternative Medicine
Simply New Age Deception?

The charge has been made by certain preachers, including TV evangelist John Ankerberg, a fine man who normally is without biblical error.

We believe that various Christian physicians practicing conventional medicine have manufactured these false charges against alternative medicine as a defensive profit maximization strategy, manipulating and deceiving the people of God.

We believe that some of the resistance to alternative medicine results, in part, from zenophobia, specifically a fear of anything "foreign" originating in a non-European, non-Christian Oriental culture. But zenophobia, a combination of fear and hatred, is not scriptural at all.

We have demonstrated here that alternative medicine is truly biblical, whereas modern conventional medicine has strayed far from biblical precepts.

It is not rational to conclude the true biblical, natural healing and wellness are New Age deceptions, notwithstanding the apparent fear of the unknown by many godly people.

 

How Should Christians
Optimize Their Health Today?

Since Christians believe that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that everything (including your body really belongs to God, anyway), they should care for it with a correct lifestyle, and when sickness comes, use natural/alternative therapies and intercessory prayer. Additionally, Pentecostal Christians believe that miraculous, divine healing still exists today.

Use of allopathic medicine should be for traumas, where it is highly effective, or in cases where all natural and spiritual approaches have not produced the desired result.

Jesus Christ wants Christians to live full, abundant lives in all respects, including their health. He said in John 10:10, "I come that ye may have life and have it more abundantly."

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