Some thoughts on Mental Illness and Regeneration
Rick Warren has been heavily criticized over his son’s suicide. I agree that only jerks would use this tragedy as a chance to attack the Warrens, but I would also like to address the reasons why the complaints are invalid, not just rude. One specific complaint I would like to address is the idea that since Christians are supposed to be different, how can this happen in a Christian home? When God regenerates a sinner, he does change their lives resulting in great moral reform. So how is it that a regenerate person can suffer from chronic mental illness? Science tells us that those with mental disorders have differences in their brains: www.bipolar-lives.com Regeneration takes place in the person’s soul, not their body or brain. Sure, Christ healed the sick in the past and he could heal a person’s brain. But just as regeneration does not normally result in removing physical blindness, so also it does not normally resolve mental disorders. So when a person w