I hope if you ever have Chronic pain you will not seek church teaching instead of good medical care.  ED you just said, "More extraordinary pain can be managed with prudent use of pallitatives."  What are you talking about.  Are you a physician.  I am... Taking nothing away from Christ, God gave us talents and medications and in my case lots of Physical therapy to deal with constant pain.  You simply are speaking without much understanding about what you are saying....  So how many more names can you come up with when writing on these boards.  I remember ED Hue the engineer the best, but there have been several more....  Hope you can settle on who you really are one day...