2 Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 11
Therefore, since we know the fear
of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we are clearly apparent to God, and
I hope we are also apparent to your consciousness.
Paul
here is talking about the judgment seat of Christ. All will be judged on what
they accomplished or failed to accomplish while sojourned here in flesh on
earth. Imagine if at your judgment you discovered that you were using inches
and feet as a measuring tool when all the time God was using the metric system.
(The metric system has been legal in the US since 1866. However, we still don’t
understand it.) According to John Maxwell we may be received into the kingdom
but our rewards could be different.
Rewards versus Inheritance[1]
1) We are indeed saved
by the merits of Christ; but our reward will be based on our service. 2) We are
given freely God’s grace; but our reward will be given in proportion to our
work. 3) We receive the Kingdom because the Holy Eucharist forms us to the
image of Christ; but our reward is based on our life as a servant of Christ. 4)
Christ’s blood poured out for us and our baptism gives us a birthright but our
reward is based on our obedience to the eternal spirit. 5) Our faith makes us
secure but our reward is in being faithful to Him, which is still pending.
Here is a question to ponder on. Are you a cash cow[2]
for the Lord or the world?
World
Hepatitis Day seeks to raise awareness for the spectrum of Hepatitis diseases.
Hepatitis diseases cause inflammation of the liver cells. There are five main
types of hepatitis, A, B, C, D and E. It is estimated that around 250 million
people worldwide are infected with Hepatitis C and 300 million people are
Hepatitis B carriers.
World Hepatitis Day was proclaimed by the World Health Organization. It is celebrated annually on July 28th.
World Hepatitis Day was proclaimed by the World Health Organization. It is celebrated annually on July 28th.
World Hepatitis Day Facts
The
2016 Theme for World Hepatitis Day is Elimination.
Hepatitis
A is usually transmitted by consuming contaminated food or water or coming into
contact with an infected person's feces.
Hepatitis
B is a sexually transmitted disease. It is transmitted through exposure to
infected blood or body fluids.
Hepatitis
B is spread via blood of an infected person.
Hepatitis
can also be caused by alcohol and other toxins and infections.
The Nuremberg Code (1947) was prompted by the horrific and often deadly experimentation on human beings in Nazi concentration camps that came to light during the “Doctors’ Trials” before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. The main principles of the Nuremberg Code require that experiments involving human subjects cause no unnecessary risk, be undertaken with the full and informed consent of the subjects, and must never knowingly cause serious injury or death. Nazi doctors were not the first, nor the last, to perform inhumane and sometimes disabling research on unsuspecting human subjects living in poverty, in prisons, mental health institutions, and orphanages. The Tuskegee syphilis experiments, the Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study, and the Willowbrook (Long Island) State School experiments—in which children with mental disabilities were intentionally infected with viral hepatitis—are just a few examples of cases in which doctors put the pursuit of knowledge and “cures” ahead of the lives and well-being of individual human beings. The Nuremberg Code inspired other declarations of medical and research ethics. In 1948, the World Medical Association approved a statement addressing the ethics of physicians, the Declaration of Geneva. As originally adopted, it read in part: “I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.”
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