Believing Doctors should refrain from indicating You have 6 Months to Live, the Body may function for only 6 more months. Why don’t The Believing Doctors show We have Eternal Life?
- Doctors aren’t trying to “decide” when someone will die. When they say something like “6 months,” they’re making their best guess based on what usually happens with that illness. Sometimes people live shorter, sometimes longer. Also, doctors and faith talk about different things.
- Doctors focus on the body–what’s happening physically and what treatments can or can’t do. Believing in eternal life is about faith, not something doctors can measure or prove with tests. So even if a doctor personally believes in God, their job is still to be honest about what’s happening in the body.
- It’s okay to believe in eternal life and still be honest about death. Those ideas don’t cancel each other out, they’re just answering different questions.
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I was pointing out they indicate Finallality, as if it will be over. This may cause some to do crazy behavior.
Like getting their affairs in order?
It’s interesting that realization of our mortality seems to be such a prominent scriptural theme too. And it only accelerates when we get to the new testament. We must be dying daily… and unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, there is no new life.