Right Decision

Taking the Scriptures as a collection of individual comments and recommendations is foolish at best and criminal at worst. Failing to measure the context, focus, and direction of a Scripture passage has led to much harm.

The “faith healer” parents of an Oregon teenager who died due to a lack of medical care will be required to contact a doctor when any of their other six children are sick for more than one day, according to the terms of their probation. Russel and Brandi Bellew were sentenced to five years of probation on Tuesday after they pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of Brandi’s biological son, Austin Sprout, 16. An autopsy found Austin died of an infection caused by a burst appendix. (Good Morning America)

The senseless death of a child is tragic, and brings reproach on our Father. Using a passage from the Biblical book of James, misunderstood and misapplied, has resulted in the death of too many.

We can be grateful that while sometimes Courts get the answers and the solutions wrong, in this case they are right. Negligence, blamed on Scripture, is never acceptable.

Cultic behavior, even inside a Church, which leads to the death of innocent individuals is never acceptable to God, and cannot ever be acceptable to our society.