Statement of Faith

There is one God: the self-existent, eternal, triune being of three distinct persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who share the same divine nature.

All things are created for the glory of God.

Our original ancestors (Adam and Eve) rebelled against God, thereby casting the entire race into sin. 

All mankind shares a common sinful nature.  Our sinful nature separates us from God, our creator. 

The man Jesus Christ is the second person of the godhead.  He is God manifest in the flesh.  He was born of a virgin, lived without sin, willingly suffered death for our sins, physically arose from the grave, ascended into glory and will physically return in his glorified state.

Forgiveness of sin and eternal life are gifts, offered to all who confess that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, the savior of the world.  He alone is able to reconcile us with our creator.  He alone is the way the truth and the life, no one comes to God but through him.

Obedience to God’s Word results in continued spiritual growth; thus spiritual health.  It is our task to teach God’s Word and to encourage obedience to it.

Holistic Healthcare

We are fearfully and wonderfully made. God designed us to live in health, without disease and death.  But when sin entered the world so too did disease and death.  Man’s continued and growing disobedience to God was interrupted by the worldwide flood that killed all human life but Noah and his family.  The post-flood climate dramatically shortened man’s lifespan.  Within a few generations life expectancy dropped from many hundreds of years to a mere seventy years.  In addition, various illnesses, largely the result of poor nutrition, now shorten many lives even further.

Although we can do nothing about the average seventy-year life span, by-in-large we can live healthy lives and avoid the many diseases caused by poor nutrition.  In this belief holistic healthcare—as practiced by botanical medicine, naturopathy and homeopathy—differs from modern western medicine (allopathy).  Both allopathy and holistic philosophies agree on basic cytology: that cells are bathed in a nutritional extracellular environment and that potential invaders (bacterium, fungi, virus, carcinogens, etc.) are ever present, lurking, seeking opportunity to attack.  But here the two philosophies part company—each having different answers to the fundamental questions of: How do these invaders strike?  How do we defend against them?  And how do we repel them once they have invaded?  It may sound trivial, but the schism is deep with diverse and far-reaching implications. 

The fundamental theory of modern western medicine is one of intervention and heroics.  The invaders must be killed, inhibited or excised.  After a differential diagnosis an interventional cure is prescribed (a synthetic drug, radiation, surgery, etc) to inhibit or in some way alter the body’s natural function and biochemistry.  What evoked this cellular invasion is of little or no concern.  The primary issue is to get rid of the invader. 

Conversely, holistic philosophies believe these same invaders have taken advantage of the cell’s weakened defense system--a defense generally weakened by an imbalanced or deficient supply of necessary micro-nutrients within the cellular environment.  Barring exceptional circumstances, this philosophy believes that our body’s cells necessarily have the ability to defend against these invaders; provided they are supplied the proper nutritional ammunition to accomplish the task.  Thus, it is the task of traditional, holistic healthcare practitioners to educate and encourage the population to eat correctly, thereby providing each cell with the proper ammunition.

Desmond Allen, PhD, ND, MDiv

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