Once in a while I run a certain thought experiment.
In this experiment I consider what it means for someone in a particular calling to pursue the dominion mandate…
And use their gifts to cultivate and protect and do good in their field of labor.
Yesterday I ran one of these experiments, thinking about doctors and health care professionals.
For centuries the Hippocratic Oath has guided those working in medicine.
The phrase “First do no harm” summarizes this oath.
Though it doesn’t have a Christian origin, this ethic is certainly in sync with the Bible and the idea of loving one’s neighbor.
Yet today the medical field no longer follows this maxim.
The number of abortions performed every day makes this obvious.
So does all the overly prescribed drugs and use of experimental injections with unknown side effects.
And, then there’s the whole business of transitioning people from one sex to another.
Surely any doctor has had enough scientific training to know it is impossible to change a male to a female or a female to a male.
And I can only wonder…
What really happens when you pump up a troubled young woman who wants to become a man with testosterone?
What are the consequences? Does it have adverse affects? And maybe even put her in a state of unmanageable rage?
I don’t know. I have ideas. But this is only a thought experiment.
Yet I do believe these are questions serious people with expertise should ask… and address with honesty and care.
And I also believe we all ought to run similar thought experiments.
For all kinds of callings and professions…
Including your own.
We should be asking…
“What does functioning as a God-honoring (insert your profession here) look like?”
Doing so would certainly reveal the need for godly reform in so many areas.
And perhaps get us turning to God for help.