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What role does faith play in dealing with a chronic or terminal illness? What role does faith play in physical wellness and health? Is it part of your tradition to address this?

2/28/2015

Illness, including chronic and terminal illness, are a result of the fall of mankind.
Belonging to Christ gives us hope; not a pie-in-the-sky wishful hope, but a confident assurance that Jesus’ life and death assures us of ultimate healing; if not here – and contrary to what some say, it is manifestly not God’s will that everyone be illness-free here –we are promised that in heaven there will be no sickness or pain (Revelation 21). Suffering such things also helps to direct our attention to that time and place and causes our hearts to long for them.
Enduring such illness also teaches us patience and reliance upon God here, and it serves as an opportunity to others to render service to us, and to pray for us.
Regarding wellness, we are stewards of our bodies, and we are to care for them in a responsible and biblical way.

California is seeing a serious outbreak of measles, resulting in a push for MMR immunization for school-age children not yet immunized. Does your religious organization agree/disagree with immunization? If so, why/why not? How do you feel about it as

2/21/2015

Does my religious organization agree or disagree with immunization?
Well, we believe in parents taking care of their children, and protecting them from diseases, but the issue of immunizations is far from being a subject on which we would try to bind the consciences of families in our congregation. I have personal thoughts on the subject and would share them if asked by a member of our congregation but as a spokesman for our church I really have nothing to say one way or the other. I would simply ask parents to make good, researched, informed decisions regarding all aspects of the health of their family, and to be sensitive and responsible regarding the exposure of other children, should they choose not to immunize their children.

In which language or languages were your sacred texts originally written? Is it important that these writings be translated into modern languages or should the texts be read in the original language?

2/7/2015

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, with a few passages in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the common Greek of the first century.
The scriptures in their original writing were directly inspired (breathed-out) by God, are without error, and are the highest and final authority in all matters of religion, and it is necessary that God’s people read, study, and know the Bible. It is obvious, however, that not everyone can read Greek and Hebrew, therefore, as the Westminster Confession of Faith rightly says, “the Scriptures are to be translated into the common language of every nation to which they come.”
For those who would serve as pastors and preachers in churches or train others in the scriptures it is critical that they be able to work in the original languages, so as not to need to blindly rely on the writings of others.

What is
"Voices of Faith?"

These articles, written by our pastor, are part of the "Voices of Faith" section of our local newspaper. Each week a question was asked to a panel of writers from various religious backgrounds. Here are Pastor Gene's responses.

The feature was discontinued by the newspaper in June of 2017, but the questions and the answers are still timely and helpful.

Responses were limited to 150 words.

What role does faith play in dealing with a chronic or terminal illness? What role does faith play in physical wellness and health? Is it part of your tradition to address this?

California is seeing a serious outbreak of measles, resulting in a push for MMR immunization for school-age children not yet immunized. Does your religious organization agree/disagree with immunization? If so, why/why not? How do you feel about it as

In which language or languages were your sacred texts originally written? Is it important that these writings be translated into modern languages or should the texts be read in the original language?

What is
"Voices of Faith?"

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What role does faith play in dealing with a chronic or terminal illness? What role does faith play in physical wellness and health? Is it part of your tradition to address this?

California is seeing a serious outbreak of measles, resulting in a push for MMR immunization for sch﻿ool-age children not yet immunized. Does your religious organization agree/disagree with immunization? If so, why/why not? How do you feel about it as

In which language or languages were your sacred texts originally written? Is it important that these writings be translated into modern languages or should the texts be read in the original language?

What is "Voices of Faith?"

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Categories

We Are Redding Reformed FellowshiP

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California is seeing a serious outbreak of measles, resulting in a push for MMR immunization for school-age children not yet immunized. Does your religious organization agree/disagree with immunization? If so, why/why not? How do you feel about it as

What is
"Voices of Faith?"

We Are
Redding Reformed FellowshiP