Cliffe Knechtle

The Bible teaches God created, not gods, not creation is God, pantheism, God, an eternal being in the beginning, God said, let there be light.

So God created Timothy, and God is not whatever you create him, and God is not Mother Earth, and God is not Diana of the Ephesians.

God is Yahweh Jehovah.

I am who I am.

And then when it comes to sexuality, Timothy, God created us male and female and said, for this reason, a man shall leave his father, be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

So Paul is mentoring Timothy and teaching him, come on, Timothy, let's stick with the Scriptures.

Let's stick with what God has revealed is true.

And yet Timothy is having to do that in a messed up culture.

No different from today.

Yes, if deliverance ministry means we are not going to get medical help to deal with our psychological sickness, that's tragic.

I can promise you if I break my arm, I will pray, Lord, heal me, but it'll be on the way to the hospital so that the doctor can put a cast on my arm and help heal my broken arm.

But when it comes to the psychological, I'm afraid that too many Christians are out of touch with reality and they reduce everything to a spiritual problem.

No, we are very complex human beings.

We have the spiritual, we have the emotional, we have the physical, we have the psychological.

We are complex.

And to reduce all of our problems to one simple issue, be it the spiritual or be it the physical,

is a very partial, very bifurcated, very ignorant view of the human being.

We are complex.

And that is why followers of Christ have been at the forefront of communicating Christ through missions, but they've also gone out and built hospitals and clinics to help heal the broken bodies and broken minds of people.

We're all born broken.