1 result for (book:deavf1 AND session:895 AND stemmed:sin)

▼ DEaVF1 Chapter 4: Session 895, January 14, 1980 2/46 (4%) David suffering illness science genetics
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume One
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 4: The Ancient Dreamers
– Session 895, January 14, 1980 9:17 P.M. Monday

[... 13 paragraphs ...]

Illness was suffered, was sent by God to purge the soul, to cleanse the body, to punish the sinner, or simply to teach man his place by keeping him from the sins of pride. Suffering sent by God was considered a fact of life, then, and a religious truth as well.

[... 2 paragraphs ...]

Now: Churchmen of the Middle Ages could draw diagrams of various portions of the human body that were afflicted as the result of indulging in particular sins. Logical minds at one time found those diagrams quite convincing, and patients with certain afflictions in certain areas of the body would confess to having committed the various sins that were involved. The entire structure of beliefs made sense within itself. A man might be born deformed or sickly because of the sins of his father.

[... 28 paragraphs ...]

Similar sessions

► DEaVF1 Chapter 4: Session 896, January 16, 1980 suffering adults sick deadening pain
► DEaVF1 Chapter 4: Session 897, January 21, 1980 Billy David divine model weather
► TPS7 Deleted Session October 26, 1982 David vitamins Cohen letter guitar
► DEaVF2 Chapter 7: Session 913, May 5, 1980 Steffans Mrs woodcuts David heroic