Roberta Winter Institute

St. Gregory of Nyssa said: "Medicine is an example of what God allows men to do when they work in harmony with Him and with one another." One of my favorite org...anizations Roberta Winter Institute works to mobilize Christians to engage against the spiritual powers of darkness at work to defame the Glory of God in creation around us through disease. It is quotes like the one above by Gregory of Nyssa that get me jazzed that Christians have been doing this type of work for centuries. See more

In the face of dreadful news such as a cancer diagnosis, many sincere Christian friends come to our side in comfort. We don't know all of God’s purposes, they'll advise, but we need to be able to say, ‘Thank you God for this disease.’ The challenge is to believe without knowing all the answers. Others will urge us to recognize that God knows what he is doing, as if cancer is God’s mysterious initiative. Yet others will suggest that suffering is deserved, either as punis...hment, or to improve us, or both. The principal concern in all of this for us in the Roberta Winter Institute is the distortion in many people’s ideas about God. We are convinced that God is deeply concerned about disease and suffering, and not in the businessperish the thoughtof inflicting us with pain to deepen our spiritual lives. If that is God's initiative, Ralph Winter once asked, why did his Son go around relieving people of pain and suffering? Read more: http://bit.ly/2nhyWzo

In the face of dreadful news such as a cancer diagnosis, many sincere Christian friends come to our side in comfort. We don't know all of God’s purposes, they'll advise, but we need to be able to say, ‘Thank you God for this disease.’ The challenge is to believe without knowing all the answers. Others will urge us to recognize that God knows what he is doing, as if cancer is God’s mysterious initiative. Yet others will suggest that suffering is deserved, either as punis...hment, or to improve us, or both. The principal concern in all of this for us in the Roberta Winter Institute is the distortion in many people’s ideas about God. We are convinced that God is deeply concerned about disease and suffering, and not in the businessperish the thoughtof inflicting us with pain to deepen our spiritual lives. If that is God's initiative, Ralph Winter once asked, why did his Son go around relieving people of pain and suffering? Read more: http://bit.ly/2nhyWzo

The Bible makes it clear that our mission is to glorify God among all peoples and that this is essentially a battle against darkness and evil. The chief end of man is to glorify God goes the familiar catechism, but to do that requires us, together in mission with the Son of God, to destroy the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8). Thus, the task of humans who accept Christ as Lord and Savior is to discover God’s glory through His Word, and through His works (nature, science, history), appreciate it (worship) and to join Him in mission to declare that glory by seeking to destroy the works of the Devil. ~ Ralph D. Winter, from " The Story of the Battle for Our Planet" Read more: http://bit.ly/2nyeNpO

The Bible makes it clear that our mission is to glorify God among all peoples and that this is essentially a battle against darkness and evil. The chief end of man is to glorify God goes the familiar catechism, but to do that requires us, together in mission with the Son of God, to destroy the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8). Thus, the task of humans who accept Christ as Lord and Savior is to discover God’s glory through His Word, and through His works (nature, science, history), appreciate it (worship) and to join Him in mission to declare that glory by seeking to destroy the works of the Devil. ~ Ralph D. Winter, from " The Story of the Battle for Our Planet" Read more: http://bit.ly/2nyeNpO

In a cosmic battle for the rulership of this planet, God is deliberately overcoming evil with good until, in the end, Jesus will reign in his Kingdom of shalom. But until God ushers in that final perfect new heaven and new earth, there is a need for believers to engage intentionally in efforts to demonstrate God’s will for people, for societies, and for God’s originally good creation. Jesus’ followers serve as God’s display window, showing what Jesus’ reign is meant to look like. ~ Beth Snodderly, from her book, Chaos Is Not God’s Will Read more at: http://bit.ly/2nn7zVB

Here's an article that Dr. Winter referenced more often than any other during the last decade of his life, an Atlantic article from 1999 about evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald. Ewald's provocative theory: "that diseases we have long ascribed to genetic or environmental factors -- including some forms of heart disease, cancer, and mental illness -- are in many cases actually caused by infections." https://www.theatlantic.com///02/a-new-germ-theory/377430/

In a cosmic battle for the rulership of this planet, God is deliberately overcoming evil with good until, in the end, Jesus will reign in his Kingdom of shalom. But until God ushers in that final perfect new heaven and new earth, there is a need for believers to engage intentionally in efforts to demonstrate God’s will for people, for societies, and for God’s originally good creation. Jesus’ followers serve as God’s display window, showing what Jesus’ reign is meant to look like. ~ Beth Snodderly, from her book, Chaos Is Not God’s Will Read more at: http://bit.ly/2nn7zVB

The respected Dutch theologian Berkouer made the rare comment that You cannot have a proper theology without a sound demonology. Another theologian dared to suggest that Satan’s greatest achievement is to cover his tracks. Note that if Satan has, in fact, skillfully covered his tracks, all of us are likely to be extensively unaware of his deeds. Isn’t that logical? Paul suggested that we are not to be ignorant of his devices. We are told that Satan and his angels once w...orked for God. If so, I ask, when Satan turned against God precisely what kind of destruction and perversion did he set out to achieve? Where would we see evidence of his works? Would he set out to pervert the DNA of originally tame animals? Would he employ powers of deception so that we would get accustomed to pervasive violence in nature and no longer connect an intelligent evil power with evil and suffering? Worse still, would Satan even successfully tempt us to think that God is somehow behind all eviland that we must therefore not attempt to eradicate things like smallpox lest we interfere with Divine Providence? Read more: http://www.robertawinterinstitute.org//a-blindspot-in-west

Ralph Winter, who died in 2009 from multiple myeloma, became increasingly puzzled by the amount of pain, suffering, tragedy and death in the world. From the smallest animals to the largest, all seem to live lives fearful of predators whether animal or human or bacterial. Did God devise vicious animals, destructive parasites, and deadly germs? Is this the good creation the Bible speaks of God creating? Winter concluded that our inherited theology allows us to fight ‘terrori...sts’ that can be seen with the naked eye but not to fight tiny terrorists that can only be seen in a microscope. Evangelical leaders are not constantly promoting the destruction of Satan’s works in general, much less in the area of disease. The Bible would urge us not to blame God for Satan’s endeavors. Is not God asking us to fight disease in the Name of Christ? Read more: http://www.robertawinterinstitute.org//a-growing-awareness

The respected Dutch theologian Berkouer made the rare comment that You cannot have a proper theology without a sound demonology. Another theologian dared to suggest that Satan’s greatest achievement is to cover his tracks. Note that if Satan has, in fact, skillfully covered his tracks, all of us are likely to be extensively unaware of his deeds. Isn’t that logical? Paul suggested that we are not to be ignorant of his devices. We are told that Satan and his angels once w...orked for God. If so, I ask, when Satan turned against God precisely what kind of destruction and perversion did he set out to achieve? Where would we see evidence of his works? Would he set out to pervert the DNA of originally tame animals? Would he employ powers of deception so that we would get accustomed to pervasive violence in nature and no longer connect an intelligent evil power with evil and suffering? Worse still, would Satan even successfully tempt us to think that God is somehow behind all eviland that we must therefore not attempt to eradicate things like smallpox lest we interfere with Divine Providence? Read more: http://www.robertawinterinstitute.org//a-blindspot-in-west

Cancer and Epigenetics: Cancer’s Epicentre; from The Economist The biggest conceptual breakthrough in the war on cancer was the realization by the 1980s that it is always a genetic disease. Unlike other forms of gene regulation (those involving transcription factors, for example), epigenetic changes are passed on during cell division to daughter and granddaughter cells until they are actively erased. Once erased, though, they do not return. It might therefore be that epigenetic therapies can effect changes which stop a cancer growing without having to kill all its cells. Read more at a technical level: http://www.economist.com/node/21552168

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is finding new ways to administer vaccines to ensure that every last child is protected against polio. http://endpol.io/2h0mEJ2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com//president-jimmy-carter-foun

The polio infrastructure is helping to protect more than 4 million children against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in Nigeria. http://endpol.io/2k0vesA

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is finding new ways to administer vaccines to ensure that every last child is protected against polio. http://endpol.io/2h0mEJ2

Automated machines at the CDC are increasing the number of samples tested for polio and for immunity against it. http://endpol.io/2iP0OFr

The polio infrastructure is helping to protect more than 4 million children against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in Nigeria. http://endpol.io/2k0vesA

Automated machines at the CDC are increasing the number of samples tested for polio and for immunity against it. http://endpol.io/2iP0OFr