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At one point in time there was no over the counter medicine to take if you were Ill.
At one point in time it is feasible to say that people would pray or perform some sort of ritual to cure a disease. Anything from simply outright asking a good to get rid of a disease to sacrificing a goat as an offering so the disease will be taken away.
Then medicine came along. What was the driving force for that? Did people say "Hmm, these dead goats don't seem to be working, or these prayers don't seem to be doing much in ratio. So let's create a medicine to cure it"
Or
Did God say "Guys, I've got bigger problems to deal with. Here, Here's how you make this medicine. Now leave me alone!"
Because at some point in the past, people were dying of basic illnesses. Now not so much.
Was medicine a gift from God? Or was it a mutiny of Man who didn't trust the more 'traditional' methods of trying to rid someone of illness?
At one point in time it is feasible to say that people would pray or perform some sort of ritual to cure a disease. Anything from simply outright asking a good to get rid of a disease to sacrificing a goat as an offering so the disease will be taken away.
Then medicine came along. What was the driving force for that? Did people say "Hmm, these dead goats don't seem to be working, or these prayers don't seem to be doing much in ratio. So let's create a medicine to cure it"
Or
Did God say "Guys, I've got bigger problems to deal with. Here, Here's how you make this medicine. Now leave me alone!"
Because at some point in the past, people were dying of basic illnesses. Now not so much.
Was medicine a gift from God? Or was it a mutiny of Man who didn't trust the more 'traditional' methods of trying to rid someone of illness?