Understand cause and effect

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This topic has been touched on before in this post:
https://biblequestionsblog.com/biblically-based-worldview/

In today’s world, which is heavy on medicating problems instead of looking at cause and effect relationships in relation to God’s Word, these statistics are simply another study that is disconnected from biblical realities.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-study-shows-teens-who-use-contraception-face-130-higher-depression-rate/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa

However, it is possible to draw cause and effect conclusions through a biblical worldview.

II Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.

20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

 

Ephesians 1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

 

James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

 

II Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

 

There is a tendency in the world to refer to problems as being psychological and / or requiring medication.  However, the Bible says the root cause of problems is sin.

Disobedience to the commandments of God brings depression, dis-ease, and all the consequences of the curse.

Medicating a problem does not remove sin.

Renaming a problem does not remove sin.  For example, alcoholism is now called “self-medication.”  A pedophile is now called a MAP “minor attracted person.”

Renaming problems and medicating them does not remove the root cause of sin.

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