The stories of Evelyn and Marshall Phillips offer a rare view into the Followers of Christ — and reveal both the power and limits of Oregon’s efforts to compel parents to seek medical care for their children.
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The stories of Evelyn and Marshall Phillips offer a rare view into the Followers of Christ — and reveal both the power and limits of Oregon’s efforts to compel parents to seek medical care for their children.
Should the state forcibly intervene in a family, contrary to their beliefs?
Is faith sufficient to save or heal someone?
Or is it part of faith to rely on the wisdom that God has granted to doctors?
Didn’t God punish a king for trusting more in physicians than in Him?
Didn’t James instruct us to call upon the elders to anoint the sick with oil?
These are, I believe, very good questions.
Someone should tell the father that anointing her with oil and praying isn't faith, and that medicine, in most cases, and under a christian logic, is in any case a tool put here by God, isn't it? I think the state should never intervene in religious matters, but religious freedom doesn't include sacrificing your child... if literally believing in a doctrine makes you watch your child die without calling a doctor, then the problem isn't God, it's your interpretation
totally agree
I agree as well... I believe that is one of God’s gifts: the advances in medicine.