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I just heard today about new medical technology that gives you a choice in the gender at the time of conception. What do you think? Should we be able to choose whether we have a boy or girl? Or should we just let God decide?

Same goes for Glasses, Birth Control, Medicines, and other forms of Health Control. REally, let's leave it all in teh hands of God, and abolish all Hospitals. Everything be better then, yeah?

They involve change, and taking what would be left to God into our own hands. You do realise that until a few hundred years ago, most medicine involved prayer, and prayer alone?

So, vaccinations do nothing to alter the properties of the body? I would debate that.

by administering a mild strain of teh disease(the antigenic) into ones bloodstream, you build an immunity to that specific disease, which is an alteration to your personal chemistry.

Ok I'ma throw in my two cents now. As for choosing the sex of your baby, I dunno. I think in a way you are trying to play God there but at the same time God created the person who came up with it. So honestly I see both ways but I wouldn't choose the sex of my baby because it just isn't natural. What does it matter if my kid is a boy or a girl? If I chose the sex it's like saying if you turned out another sex I wouldn't love you as much. Which is why I view it as wrong. The sex shouldn't matter, thats not the point of having a baby.

But as far as glasses and other things. I say HA! As for vaccines if they weren't invented, I would have died when I was baby. If it wasn't for allergy shots I'd still be suffering from constant colds and stuff. I still do but I'm slowly getting better. I no longer have asthma, praise the Lord I got healed. But I still had some breathing problems with something else. Allergy shots fixed my breathing problems. I'm now having to get two vaccines soon because if I don't my body can get to viruses that can make me sick to where my body won't be able to fight. Then I'd have to go on to blood transfusion. So I believe none of that is wrong. God wouldn't have created the person to create it. I think part of my testing of Faith with God is the fact that I'm sick. ANd where the test comes in to play is "Can you trust me even when your doctors say there is no hope?" I'm sick and as of now there's no treatment and no way for me to have a chance to outgrow it like they thought I did. And the blood transfusion will most likely give me AIDS and they won't try it until my body gets so sick it can't fight. And if it comes to that it comes to that, but I know my God won't let me suffer more than I can handle, and I know he'll protect me and my body from completely shutting down. And I know since I was daignosed I've struggled with my faith. I was like "...I'm sick...They can't do anything...God why? How could you? Don't you love? Why not fix me?" And the problem was my faith in him. But now I praise him even when I feel at my worse and my tiredness is overwhelming. But the fact of the matter is I'm doing what I need to do at the doctors and I trust my God that in his time I'll be healed but I have to trust in him and do what I need to do. The doctor was placed there for a reason.

And for glasses, they help me see. Without them I would be blind. God doesn't have to heal every inch of my body before I have proof and an awesome testimony of God. He healed me of my asthma and if thats the only thing he heals me of and the rest of the time it's the treatment and shots from the doctors that keep me healthy. I still have an awesome testimony because he gave me the breath to breathe which sustains me life to praise him. And what is even more amazing is I didn't deserve and he did it anyways.

None of us deserve, we never will. But God is just enough to give us teh kindness that we would never expect from anyone other than our Father who loves us.

Ah, but that is not the point, see.
And, that all depends on what the vaccine is for...