Joshua Haymes #quack

Joshua Haymes #quack twitter.com

Anxiety is sin to be repented of,

Not a disease to be medicated.

We are all prone to different sins.
Some of us struggle with pride, anger, or wrath, other struggle with lust or gluttony.

Anxiety is no different.

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Modern Christians must not get sucked into the trap of medicalizing our sin.

Meds may address some behavioral issues (bad fruit) but they cannot address the bad root.

Only repentance and faith can do that.

We serve a God who is incredibly gracious and immeasurably, merciful to us.

He is inviting each of us to cast our worries upon him.

He would not command us not to worry if it were impossible to actually obey.

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@Bastethotep #218067

You’re just supposed to be a sociopath, they’re never anxious

“Anxiety is sin to be repented of,”
And what is the basis of this claim?

“Not a disease to be medicated.”
I don’t know what causes my anxiety, but it keeps me up some nights. Therapy hasn’t found the basis, but doc gave me a pill that knocks me out. Preeeeeeetty sure prayer would be even less effective than therapy.

“We are all prone to different sins.
Some of us struggle with pride, anger, or wrath, other struggle with lust or gluttony.”
‘Prone to’ sounds like a condition that needs treatment. But still don’t recall anxiety on the list. I know believers will SAY they gave all their anxieties to God but that’s just ignoring a real condition until it eats you up.

“Anxiety is no different.”
My coworker’s daughter has a medical condition that makes her hungry all the time. A hundred years ago it would have been labeled gluttony. Now it’s a biochemical deficienty. I fear your medical advice is about 2000 years out of date.

"Modern Christians must not get sucked into the trap of medicalizing our sin.”
Christains also should avoid trying to pray away actual, measurable edical conditions.

"He would not command us not to worry if it were impossible to actually obey.”
Yeah, because his directions on the nature of lust are completely under our mental control and not biologically driven. Uh huh.

I'll take medication over prayers for my depression and anxiety

So the mere feeling of anxiety, which could be felt in occasions such as an incoming trip, a marriage or the loss of a job, is as sinful as theft and murder. Your deity runs the afterlife like a mafia boss runs a casino.

If you don’t want us to feel so much anxiety, how about you stop giving us reasons to by NOT making the world go to shit?

Tiny axe is pin to be resented of,

Not a disease to be medicated.

We are all snore to different pins.
Some of us struggle with wider anger or path, other struggle with rust or Tony Gullt.

Tiny axe is no different.

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