Guard Your Heart

During the COVID pandemic, you heard doctors and other medical professionals say, "follow the science." I don't quite know who popularized the term, but sometimes science is used to pursue ends that are not scientific and not reflective of the principles set in motion by the Creator, the One who originated science in the first place.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet...

The nation is a step closer to having a new director of the National Institutes of Health - just last week, a Senate committee approved, by a narrow margin, the nomination of Jay Bhattacharya. FoxNews.com reported, "A physician, Stanford professor of medicine and senior fellow at the university's Institute for Economic Policy Research, Bhattacharya was a leading voice during the COVID-19 pandemic against lockdown measures and vaccine mandates."

The article went on to say:

Bhattacharya was notably a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, a document published in October 2020 by a group of scientists advocating for an alternative approach to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. It argued largely against widespread lockdowns and promoted the efficacy of natural immunity to the virus for low-risk individuals, suggesting the vaccine may not be the best course of action for everyone.

The confirmation of a new leader at NIH is imminent, and there are a couple of articles I came across that have explored the unholy alliance between a former NIH head, Francis Collins, and so-called "evangelical leaders." A piece at the Center for Baptist Leadership site by Nick Spencer, who is the Director of Public Policy for The Family Foundation of Kentucky, noted that:

When Dr. Collins took to the stage at the “Stand Up for Science” rally on March 7th, 2025, I was not expecting to hear a folk song about how cuts to scientific research would deprive “all the good people” of answers.

About the rally, which was organized to protest proposed government funding reductions, Spencer went on to say:

...the exact language Collins used to describe his own side of the debate betrays an underlying conflict of worldviews, which is ultimately hostile to the core truths of the Gospel.

As stated above, Collins describes those on his side of the funding divide as “the good people.” The same “good people” that Collins funneled millions of dollars to in order to harvest the organs of murdered children, fund “transgender” studies on teenagers that resulted in suicides, and worked with Anthony Fauci to slander and discredit Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (who Trump has now picked to lead NIH) during COVID.

 But, Collins has received support among high-profile "Christian leaders;" Spencer says:

...one ought not be permitted to appeal to orthodox Christian concepts to justify their saving knowledge of Christ while at the same time behaving in a manner contrary to the Gospel. Whether that is denying biblical inerrancy by undermining Scripture’s clear witness on issues of faith and practice or supporting and directing research on the bodies of dead children, just because you say something conservative about yourself does not make it true.

The men noted above are, in many ways, a case study in Matthew 12:22-28. Their actions betray the fact that they are divided against themselves. In one breath, they are committed to Christianity, while in another, they seem open to the ways of the world. Some claim Christ when it suits them and profit off of aborted children behind the scenes. Others profess conservatism when they desire, yet undermine the polity of the SBC in the name of “keep[ing] the main thing the main thing.”

Seth Gruber, writing at Clear Truth Media last year, provided a look at how Collins promoted unbiblical ideas and actions under the guise of Christianity:

On August 17, 2009, Barack Obama appointed Francis Collins as the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Lauded as a hero of the faith because he professed belief in God while leading the Human Genome Project some years prior, Collins became a link between Christian institutions and the scientific establishment. As association with Collins meant a pastor couldn’t be accused of being some backward-thinking fundamentalist, Collins’s image became synonymous with a more nuanced, reasonable faith – perhaps even a faith that was academically robust.

A year after taking the helm of NIH, Collins reportedly believed that “it is not possible scientifically to settle precisely when life begins.” In fact, before taking over NIH, Collins had already praised eugenic abortions ( when one prenatally tests the baby to see if they’re “fit” or “unfit” and disposes of them if they aren’t up to scruff) as something people “in our current society… are in a circumstance of being able to take advantage of” and something “we have decided as a society… needs to be defended.” And shortly after his confirmation at NIH, Collins said that establishing a new human embryonic stem cell registry was one of his high priorities.

Gruber goes on to say:

By the start of 2022, many believers had come to realize that Francis Collins either presided over, ordered, funded, or indirectly participated in the following while leading NIH:

· Record-level spending on scientific experimentation performed on fetuses obtained from abortions.

· Endorsement of unrestricted funding of embryonic stem cell research.

· Millions of dollars in taxpayer grants spent on transgender research on minors.

· Opposite-sex hormone treatments given to children as young as eight years old.

· Mastectomies performed on girls as young as thirteen years old.

· Millions of dollars in grants to an app program that tracked teenage boys’ homosexual activities including anal sex, all without parental knowledge.

This is the legacy of Frances Collins.  And, you had high-profile evangelicals propping him up.  Gruber and Spencer named names. Megan Basham of The Daily Wire wrote a piece about this support, asking five evangelicals about their support of Collins in light of his treachery.  Gruber notes:

...after Megan Basham’s Daily Wire article that caused Big Eva to start collapsing in on itself like a dying star, Daily Wire reached out to those five men to ask if they had changed their views on Collins given these revelations. NONE OF THEM RESPONDED. And that remains true to this day. None of these supposedly godly Christian leaders has anything to say about his “brother in Christ” funding the live dissections of infants for fresh organs, sexualizing teenage boys, carving the breasts off of healthy teenage girls, chemically castrating children, praising eugenic abortions, and buying the organs of our preborn brothers and sisters.

We live in an age in which discernment is necessary, because there are those who, for whatever reason, be it money, power, control, or fame, have decided that their love of the world and acceptance by it is greater than their love of God. Romans 16 says to "note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them."

That is why we must guard our associations and, by so doing, guard our hearts.  And, you can tell a lot about a spiritual leader by the people with whom he or she associate.  Faith Radio desires to be a trusted source for you in order that you may grow in the Lord and not be influenced by entanglements that we find so common among present-day evangelicalism. It's not a matter of Christ-plus, we must hold fast to Christ alone! We need to be in the Scriptures consistently, so that God's Word will give us the discernment we need in order to exhibit growth in the Lord. Proverbs 4 states: "Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life."