Should Christians Consult With Doctors and Take Medicine?

I believe medical science is a gift from God. The skill that doctors have is, without question, a blessing that God has given us for our good. However, we must understand that all healing comes from God (see Psalms 103:2-3ClosePsalms 103:2-3 Let all that I am praise the LORD;  may I never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins  and heals all my diseases. OPEN VERSE IN BIBLE (nlt) , Isaiah 53:4-5CloseIsaiah 53:4-5 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;  it was our sorrows* that weighed him down.And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,  a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion,  crushed for our sins.He was beaten so we could be whole.  He was whipped so we could be healed. OPEN VERSE IN BIBLE (nlt) ). Medicines can help, but they only speed up the natural process of healing. Ambroise Pare', the sixteenth-century father of modern surgery, often said, "I dressed his wounds; God healed him." I believe God heals through prayer, through rest and nutrition, through medicine, and through doctors. It is God's will that those who are sick be made whole, just as it is His desire that all might come to know Him. Regrettably, as long as people are as they are and the world is as it is, all will not come to know God and all will not be healed.

Excerpt taken from Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions, Copyright 1984 by Pat Robertson.