Saturday, October 10, 2020

"his disciples asked him again" - When He Lived as a Mere Son of Man




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When He Lived as a Mere Son of Man


When a Japanese boy was seriously sick, he seriously thought that he might die.  But a female medical doctor gave him certain medical drugs that miraculously cured him.  The boy was so thrilled and got determined to be a medical doctor someday himself.

As time went by, the boy graduated from a medical school to become a physician.  But, what he saw in a university hospital was ugly sates of dying people.  While in movies or TV dramas, a dying man usually left impressive words to crying family members surrounding him.  But, reality was ugly.  Patients in their last weeks or days before death behaved in ugly manners without human dignity.  So, he decided to be an end-of-life expert.  He changed the hospital to work in to a hospital specialized in end-of-life care. 

Through various experiences, he found that steroid, when used at proper timing, worked well and stabilized symptomatic states of many patients in the end-of-life period, although guidelines told not to use it readily for old men.  

He also found that use of morphine (hydromorphone) was often rejected by old patients as wrong information prevailed that use of morphine led to intoxication or mental troubles.  But he reached a conviction that proper use of morphine helped relief of suffering of dying old patients.  He started to use morphine in the form of adhesive skin patches to confirm the effect.

So, the medical doctor saw hundreds of old men passing away.  He focused on applying medical care that gave less pains to dying patients.  If a patient is noticed that he or she is given, say, only half year to live, he thinks, medical service workers including a medical doctor should concentrate on making the patient feel less pain and keep quality of life rather than inserting an intravenous line to give unnecessary nutrition.

Within days before death, old dying patients sometimes develop delirium or psychotic disorders that take away human dignity from them and make family members sad.  So, the medical doctor thinks that it is reasonable that the mankind came to produce religion and develop the concept of Heaven and the God to cure themselves from extreme sadness they felt facing death of closest family members, friends, etc.   

However, Christ Jesus said that He was from the God and we were from this world.  And we could get to Heaven only through Christ Jesus.  

Probably human religions before Jesus had been not sufficient to save people, so that the God sent His Son to correct and enhance human religion.  Indeed, no matter what race a man is of or no matter what religion he believes in, a man dies within a maximum of 130 years.  Death is universal among the mankind, even for Christ Jesus when He lived as a mere son of man around Jerusalem.        
    

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Mark 10 King James Version
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.