It is indeed a very difficult line to tread! I am a student nurse and a Christian, and it's often hard to reconcile a lot of my job views to my personal views. For (a rather crude) example: I agree we should respect other people and their particular beliefs or faith, but as a Christian this can be hard because I believe other people are *wrong* when they want to respond in certain ways to events. That is to say *wrong* in the sense that it's not in line with what my faith makes me think is *right*. Then again, being a Christian can help when working with people who have different beliefs and faith, because there is a mutual understanding of the importance of faith in decision making etc. As for supernatual things (real or imagined) I don't think I'll ever know what to do. I know I believe in the spirit world and it's ability to affect things in our lives. I have experienced spiritual attack and have responded in prayer and seen changes. I've been ill and responded in prayer and been healed. I grew up with one leg shorter than the other, causing me alot of lower back pain. Last year, a man prayed for my leg and it grew! My legs are now the same length (previously there was about an inch difference) and the back pain has disappeared. I can't explain that, except to say God healed me. My nurse brain finds that difficult to be believe/understand, but I can't deny the evidence of my leg growing (I could feel it stretching), the measure tape that proves and the absence of pain. But I don't subscribe to the belief that every bad thing, every cough or cold or mental illness, is directly related to the spirit world and I definitely don't believe that everything is a punishment or judgement sent from God. The Bible doesn't say that, so why make it up? I guess it's all very grey. I don't have any answers, I don't think there are any.