Beautifully set forth. God does intend to heal that which is broken. People who turn to him can experience healing but what happens when they do not feel any change? It the wake of the charismatic movement, which saw a great many miracles of healing, a number of books were written by people who did not receive similar miracles. As someone who has been fascinated by human behavior since childhood, I read and observed both sides of that divide. What forms the criminal mind? Why are some personalities unreachable? What is mental illness? Why have doctors of the mind or psyche had so little success in actual healing? I believe God led me through many relatively mild types of illness and exposed me to many relatively mild types of illness and then brought me near criminal behavior (murder) to then teach me how to heal one of those conditions with a unique music therapy. When relapse occurred two years later, the therapy succeeded again. During that healing process, I was positioned to do online research, on top of decades of reading, searching, and observing. I ventured into human neurological anatomy focusing on perception and consciousness. A few of the byways of my search brought a few pertinent books to me. The pieces of several puzzles came together in the same instant as I realized my right-eared music therapy was making a schizophrenic person "more left-brained." Our concepts of good and evil behavior rest on the anatomy of a brain that is divided in two rather different brains that integrate their distinctive characteristics. The left, rational brain depends on the stream of high-frequency sound through the right ear to learn how to dominate the right, emotional brain in their integrative processes. A person with auditory processing deficits cannot easily or perhaps ever learn how to be "good."
Now, we can discuss sin (original and otherwise) and righteousness.
Thank you, Laurna. I think you've touched on one of the most difficult questions of all. If God intends to heal what is broken, what do we make of the many situations where healing seems partial, delayed, or does not come in the way we hope?
One of the reasons I wanted to write this piece is that I think Romans 5 holds together two truths that can be difficult to reconcile: that something is genuinely broken in the human condition, and that God is committed to its restoration. The challenge is that we often experience restoration in incomplete and uneven ways.
I appreciate you sharing some of your own journey of observation, research, and care for others. Whatever conclusions we reach about the causes of particular behaviours or conditions, I suspect we share the conviction that people are often far more complex than our categories allow, and that compassion is usually a better starting point than judgement.
Thank you, as always, for such a thoughtful contribution. I appreciate it.
Well said. I also rely on Ezekiel 18
Thanks Joseph, much appreciated.
Beautifully set forth. God does intend to heal that which is broken. People who turn to him can experience healing but what happens when they do not feel any change? It the wake of the charismatic movement, which saw a great many miracles of healing, a number of books were written by people who did not receive similar miracles. As someone who has been fascinated by human behavior since childhood, I read and observed both sides of that divide. What forms the criminal mind? Why are some personalities unreachable? What is mental illness? Why have doctors of the mind or psyche had so little success in actual healing? I believe God led me through many relatively mild types of illness and exposed me to many relatively mild types of illness and then brought me near criminal behavior (murder) to then teach me how to heal one of those conditions with a unique music therapy. When relapse occurred two years later, the therapy succeeded again. During that healing process, I was positioned to do online research, on top of decades of reading, searching, and observing. I ventured into human neurological anatomy focusing on perception and consciousness. A few of the byways of my search brought a few pertinent books to me. The pieces of several puzzles came together in the same instant as I realized my right-eared music therapy was making a schizophrenic person "more left-brained." Our concepts of good and evil behavior rest on the anatomy of a brain that is divided in two rather different brains that integrate their distinctive characteristics. The left, rational brain depends on the stream of high-frequency sound through the right ear to learn how to dominate the right, emotional brain in their integrative processes. A person with auditory processing deficits cannot easily or perhaps ever learn how to be "good."
Now, we can discuss sin (original and otherwise) and righteousness.
Thank you, Laurna. I think you've touched on one of the most difficult questions of all. If God intends to heal what is broken, what do we make of the many situations where healing seems partial, delayed, or does not come in the way we hope?
One of the reasons I wanted to write this piece is that I think Romans 5 holds together two truths that can be difficult to reconcile: that something is genuinely broken in the human condition, and that God is committed to its restoration. The challenge is that we often experience restoration in incomplete and uneven ways.
I appreciate you sharing some of your own journey of observation, research, and care for others. Whatever conclusions we reach about the causes of particular behaviours or conditions, I suspect we share the conviction that people are often far more complex than our categories allow, and that compassion is usually a better starting point than judgement.
Thank you, as always, for such a thoughtful contribution. I appreciate it.