A student asks which would you choose if you were sick: a doctor or prayer? Frank points out why this is a false dilemma. Should we plant food or pray? We should do both.
we rely on one another for certain
services
whether it’s doctors whether it’s
farmers whether it’s grocers whether
it’s attorneys whether it’s teachers
we all interact we don’t say god do
everything for me
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dr tonight you’re diagnosed with cancer
if you could if you could choose prayer
or modern medical science
which would you rather have you can only
choose one
no you can have prayer or you can choose
science you only have one
would you rather have those doctors
treat you with chemotherapy
or would you rather have a team priest
treat you with prayer
you can only have one who said i can
only have one
my question presumes you can only have
one
it’s a false question i can have both i
should have both because are you
suggesting that
that um god can’t work through doctors
or are you are you saying that what are
you trying to get at
professor turk i’m i’m my implication is
that if you wouldn’t immediately jump to
the chance to say
i would only rather have prayer that
displays nothing other than a lack of
faith
you should be more than happy to say i
don’t give a
i don’t i don’t care about modern
medical science
or anything other than
other other than god will god will heal
me
and god will take care of me only
through the power of prayer
and i’m confident since you since you
are a devout
and a serious christian and i respect
you for that and as should everyone here
you’re going to tell everyone here
forget science
we don’t care about any of it god will
take care of us as long as we pray to
him
wrong theology because i
i need before i need medical care i need
food and i rely on farmers that make
corn here in corn husker land
i’m not growing my own corn okay i don’t
have time to do that
i rely on them i’m not going to sit
around and say god give me some corn
you’ve already told us god is timeless
so time the time is nothing
we’re waiting for your prayer i’m not
following you cody
what are you suggesting we live in the
world where we have a community
and god has put us in this community and
we rely on one another for certain
services whether it’s doctors whether
it’s farmers whether it’s grocers
whether it’s attorneys whether it’s
teachers
we all interact we don’t say god do
everything for me
in fact jesus was was tempted by satan
remember
throw yourself down and god will save
you and
jesus knew of course that satan was
taking that verse out of context
and he said you shall not put the lord
your god to the test
so so so god so god doesn’t answer your
prayers directly we’ll move on to the
next question
thanks doc no cody cody cody no we won’t
we’re going to go to the next lady and
you can get in the back of the line
because it’s one at a time because
otherwise you you could be up there for
half an hour we don’t have half an hour
thank you and i’m happy to say i’m happy
to stay afterwards
and talk to you as long as you want i
would love that thank you dr sheriff
thank you