Your Medical Care Question

MON., AUG. 8, 1994, 7:21 AM
FARM, STUDY

The issue and question that you posed to your Sunday evening group, “of old,” brought much discussion and, for some, thought. Are there any Christian moral issues in this whole question of “health care reform”? What do I, the Holy Spirit, speaking for God the Father and for Jesus, say about this issue, which could not have been spoken to in the ancient Holy Scriptures? Continue with Me, and you will know.

You could have been more forceful in your statements, knowing how I feel about medical care and the prolongation of earth life. On the other hand your more important task was to lead and facilitate the discussion, and this you did, rather well. It would have been appropriate for you to make a closing statement, but you didn’t. Should you have such an opportunity again you should be more sure of what I tell you.

It is morally right for a culture as rich as yours to provide primary medical care for all of its citizens. I said “medical care”, but I really meant “health care,” which includes much that is not included in your “scientific medicine”. It is morally right that children have primary, protective care so that they have the best chance to develop the strength to function throughout life, as long or as short as it may be.

It is not a moral imperative babies with significant imperfections and abnormalities have their lives prolonged. I recognize that this leaves a “gray area” of cases that could be treated with more than primary care… but how much more? The conception process is a basically good one, but as it functions, with imperfect people it is not perfect nor meant to be. I do not personally determine that every conception produces a perfect, healthy baby. A few just cannot adapt to life in the earth, and this is as it should be, from My perspective.

As I have told you often, some of the imperfections that show forth early in life or that develop “prematurely” are caused by “irritants” in the modern environment to which some cannot adapt. In My earth I’ll accept the judgment that “there is no such thing as a free lunch” combined with “you can’t just do one thing.” You can’t have a modern chemical and technological environment that produces only good. The culture that has effective, high-tech medicine also has an environment with dangers that bring forth illnesses, diseases, and “premature” death.

From My perspective it is both silly and immoral to spend increasing amounts of money on specialized medical care… almost comparable to spending on military armaments to use for your own nation’s defense or to sell to other groups in order that wars might produce more casualties. Was the time in which I lived, as Jesus, a primitive time or a time of more natural life and death. When I was born there were no monitors or medications. There were not immunization shots nor antibiotics for infections. I was not born in a sterile environment, and soon after birth I traveled to Egypt. Was I specially guarded or was I just able to adapt to the hazards of that time, which were less diverse than those of today?