The Tragedy Of "Modern Medicine" And The Seduction Of "Faith Alone" ("Sola Fide")

"First Stone: It Is Not Enough To Do What Is Right..."

Sola Fide

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Alan: Tragically, Modern Medicine persuades many (probably most) people that the ready availability of "cures" makes it unnecessary to exercise, eat well and shun smoking. 

A revered pathologist at Duke University Medical Center confided: "If all Americans adopted a Mediterranean diet, the ensuing health benefits would outweigh the cumulative benefit of all drugs in the pharmacopaeia with the exception of insulin and antibiotics." 

Persistent dedication to intelligent "health behaviors" is indispensable to long, healthy life.

At the risk of redundancy but for the sake of clarity, it must be said that to live a long, healthy life leaves NO alternative but exercise, good nutrition and the avoidance of tobacco. 

As always, reliance on "medical miracles" for the restoration of health after disease and dysfunction have already manifest is a cursed mindset that -- with diabolical allure -- passes for "normal." 

To believe that "medical miracles" will save us without need for intelligent behavior modification is as dimwitted as the kindred belief that "sola fide" --- "faith without good works" -- is sufficient for "salvation." 

Whether physically or metaphysically, we are "saved" by "right living" and "virtuous behavior," not by the seductive (and essentially indolent) belief that a hero who "descends" "deus ex machina" can gratuitously bestow salvation, health and wholeness.  

"Just like our father in the faith, we are made right with God through good works, not simply by what we believe or think."

The Epistle of James 2:24

Even after positing five different "solas," there is still no reference to works.