Comments on: Tai Chi and Ru’ach Elohim http://www.psalm19.org.uk/2010/07/tai-chi-and-ruach-elohim/ Blogging about God's Wonderful Word Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: thePsalmist http://www.psalm19.org.uk/2010/07/tai-chi-and-ruach-elohim/comment-page-1/#comment-22 thePsalmist Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:54:55 +0000 http://www.psalm19.org.uk/?p=106#comment-22 I think the concept of Chi is utterly alien to the Christian view of the world, and I'm astonished that any Christian would want to support it in any way shape or form. Pressure points and tens machines do not rely on Chi for their purposes, they rely on the human nervous system. That's something totally different. The language causes an overlap however and in there is the confusion. Scientists used to believe in a thing called the Ether, which was a physical substance through which light propagated ... or so they thought. Their trouble was that they thought any wave based form had to travel through another substance, hence the Ether was hypothesised as being that substance through which waves of light moved. It was a theory enhanced by observation ... or so they thought, until ultimately it was proved once and for all that the ether did not exist and the observations could be explained in a different fashion. I think you need to reflect quite strongly on just the full weight of what you are saying by supporting the role of Chi within nature, as fully heretical as it is from a Christian perspective, and see instead that some of the things which are supposed to be Chi related are in fact merely biological and in referring to them as Chi you are making a very unhelpful spiritual link which serves no purpose. I think the concept of Chi is utterly alien to the Christian view of the world, and I’m astonished that any Christian would want to support it in any way shape or form. Pressure points and tens machines do not rely on Chi for their purposes, they rely on the human nervous system. That’s something totally different. The language causes an overlap however and in there is the confusion.

Scientists used to believe in a thing called the Ether, which was a physical substance through which light propagated … or so they thought. Their trouble was that they thought any wave based form had to travel through another substance, hence the Ether was hypothesised as being that substance through which waves of light moved. It was a theory enhanced by observation … or so they thought, until ultimately it was proved once and for all that the ether did not exist and the observations could be explained in a different fashion.

I think you need to reflect quite strongly on just the full weight of what you are saying by supporting the role of Chi within nature, as fully heretical as it is from a Christian perspective, and see instead that some of the things which are supposed to be Chi related are in fact merely biological and in referring to them as Chi you are making a very unhelpful spiritual link which serves no purpose.

]]> By: Mrs Redboots http://www.psalm19.org.uk/2010/07/tai-chi-and-ruach-elohim/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Mrs Redboots Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:11:13 +0000 http://www.psalm19.org.uk/?p=106#comment-21 It's not really about <i>believing</i> in Chi, it's about <i>using</i> it. Even something as simple as anti-nausea wristbands use the shiatsu pressure points in the wrists - yet would you really deny them to a woman suffering from morning sickness? Or a TENS machine to a woman in labour (sorry, have babies on the brain at the moment, for obvious reasons!), or the use of acupuncture to help relieve chronic pain? All these treatments, accepted by the conventional medical establishment, involve the use of chi energy. Or are you saying, as many do, that God can only heal either through totally conventional, drug-based medicine, or by divine intervention? It’s not really about believing in Chi, it’s about using it. Even something as simple as anti-nausea wristbands use the shiatsu pressure points in the wrists – yet would you really deny them to a woman suffering from morning sickness? Or a TENS machine to a woman in labour (sorry, have babies on the brain at the moment, for obvious reasons!), or the use of acupuncture to help relieve chronic pain? All these treatments, accepted by the conventional medical establishment, involve the use of chi energy.

Or are you saying, as many do, that God can only heal either through totally conventional, drug-based medicine, or by divine intervention?

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