MonkeyPox ... Round 2!

[other one]

11 hours ago, George said:

Faith mattered.

Still does and most likely will get more and more so in the next few years.

[Alive]

13 hours ago, George said:

From the book, "The Triumph of Christianity",

In the year 165, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, a devastating epidemic swept through the Roman Empire. Some medical historians suspect this was the first appearance of smallpox in the West. Whatever the actual disease, it was lethal—as many contagious diseases are when they strike a previously unexposed population. During the fifteen-year duration of the epidemic, a quarter to a third of the population probably died of it. At the height of the epidemic, mortality was so great in many cities that the emperor Marcus Aurelius (who subsequently died of the disease) wrote of caravans of carts and wagons hauling out the dead. Then, a century later came another great plague. Once again the Greco-Roman world trembled as, on all sides, family, friends, and neighbors died horribly. No one knew how to treat the stricken. Nor did most people try. During the first plague, the famous classical physician Galen fled Rome for his country estate where he stayed until the danger subsided. But for those who could not flee, the typical response was to try to avoid any contact with the afflicted, since it was understood that the disease was contagious. Hence, when their first symptom appeared, victims often were thrown into the streets, where the dead and dying lay in piles. In a pastoral letter written during the second epidemic (ca. 251), Bishop Dionysius described events in Alexandria: “At the first onset of the disease, they [pagans] pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treated unburied corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the spread and contagion of the fatal disease; but do what they might, they found it difficult to escape”….

As for action, Christians met the obligation to care for the sick rather than desert them, and thereby saved enormous numbers of lives! As William H. McNeill pointed out in his celebrated Plagues and Peoples, under the circumstances prevailing in this era, even “quite elementary nursing will greatly reduce mortality. Simple provision of food and water, for instance, will allow persons who are temporarily too weak to cope for themselves to recover instead of perishing miserably.” It is entirely plausible that Christian nursing would have reduced mortality by as much as two-thirds! The fact that most stricken Christians survived did not go unnoticed, lending immense credibility to Christian "miracle working." Indeed, the miracles often included pagan neighbors and relatives. This surely must have produced some conversions, especially by those who were nursed back to health. In addition, while Christians did nurse some pagans, being so outnumbered, obviously they could not have cared for most of them, while all, or nearly all, Christians would have been nursed. Hence Christians as a group would have enjoyed a far superior survival rate, and, on these grounds alone, the percentage of Christians in the population would have increased substantially as a result of both plagues.

What went on during the epidemics was only an intensification of what went on every day among Christians… Indeed, the impact of Christian mercy was so evident that in the fourth century when the emperor Julian attempted to restore paganism, he exhorted the pagan priesthood to compete with the Christian charities. In a letter to the high priest of Galatia, Julian urged the distribution of grain and wine to the poor, noting that “the impious Galileans [Christians], in addition to their own, support ours, [and] it is shameful that our poor should be wanting our aid.” But there was little or no response to Julian’s proposals because there were no doctrines and no traditional practices for the pagan priest to build upon…. Christians believed in life everlasting. At most, pagans believed in an unattractive existence in the underworld. Thus, for Galen to have remained in Rome to treat the afflicted during the first great plague would have required far greater bravery than was needed by Christian deacons and presbyters to do so. Faith mattered.

Yup…the Gospel’s result is the Light of Christ. Praise the Lord.

[Selah7]

What’s the purpose of these pandemics, biblically speaking?  Is a one world order the plan?      …selah 

[Alive]

2 minutes ago, Selah7 said:

What’s the purpose of these pandemics, biblically speaking?  Is a one world order the plan?      …selah 

I do not think the bible teaches any one world all world government.

He ducks for cover.

[Selah7]

18 minutes ago, Alive said:

I do not think the bible teaches any one world all world government.

He ducks for cover.

 I think the Bible does, and here it is: 

Rev 13:1 "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy."

The first beast is a political system that will encompass all seven continents of the world with the sole purpose of blasphemy and luring people away from the true God.

The second beast is Satan, the false-christ:

Rev 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority."

S.

[Selah7]

…but let’s not derail this thread, A.

[Alive]

4 minutes ago, Selah7 said:

…but let’s not derail this thread, A.

That would be a new thing on the earth.

[Alive]

Assuming a lab creation, of course.

[George]

1 minute ago, Heaven_Bound said:

Had someone mention to me that people before 1974 were vaccinated for smallpox which should include monkeypox.   Theoretically this is true.   But understanding these Lab Creations are more severe than their original version seems plausible to question everything anyways.   If someone who was vaccinated in/before 1974 acquires monkeypox then we will know for certain.

I just read a doctor on Twitter detail the difference ...

[Alive]

5 minutes ago, George said:

I just read a doctor on Twitter detail the difference ...

Intgeresting, but can we yet trust any of these sources?