John 1.12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God… So far John has focused on the sad irony of a created people rejecting its Creator. He shifts his focus here to point out that, in contrast to the general...
John 1. 9-11
John 1.9-11 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. The true light. It’s not unusual to...
John 1.6-8
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. John the Apostle is quick to introduce John the Baptist in...
Ethics & Research
“Researchers must be warned not to ‘balance’ ethics and medicine, for that would mean one can pursue even research that one knows is unethical—if the potential medical benefit is great enough. The researchers who conducted the Tuskegee syphilis experiment on African-American men, those who deliberately infected retarded children with the hepatitis virus at the Willowbrook home, those who approved the Cold War radiation experiments on unsuspecting American civilians, those who allowed children to be exposed to lead poisoning in the research condemned by the Maryland Court of Appeals—those researchers ‘balanced’ ethics and progress.” – Richard M. Doerflinger
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