Fascinating Medical Evidences: The Bible's Instructions for Health and Healing

1. Fascinating Medical Evidences Buffalo July 2002

2. He is trying to save your LIFE!

3. Introduction • Look at what the Bible says concerning disease prevention,public health, and medical practice. • Compare the Bible’s instructions with that of the ancient Egyptians as well as with more “modern” day public health and medical practice.

4. The Bible’s Instructions First five books of the bible are incredibly detailed and specific regarding the law. Ever wonder why God was so “picky” about so many seemingly obscure things? Example: (Leviticus 12:1-2)Why is a woman “unclean” for seven days after giving birth??

5. God’s Promise to Abraham “Look up at the heavens and count the stars if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” (Genesis 15:4-6)

6. Genesis 17:2-6 God made many promises: • He would greatly increase his numbers • Be the father of many nations • Be very fruitful • Make nations of him • Kings would come from him • Establish His covenant through him

7. Fulfillment of many of God’s promises requires: • FAITHin God’s word 2. OBEDIENCEto what He says

8. The Test To put the word into practice. We can’t just listen to the word, but must do what it says. James 1:21-24 (Speaker’s paraphrase)

9. The Covenant

10. Abraham’s Test In Genesis 17:9-14 God told Abraham that he was to undergo circumcision and that for the generations to come every male eight days old was to undergo circumcision.

11. OUCH!

12. WHY CIRCUMCISION?

13. Healthy Offspring? Could it be that there was a benefit to circumcision that helped Abraham’s offspring to be healthy and multiply?

14. 1971 “There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period.”

15. Dr. Thomas Wiswell discovered:: Uncircumcised boys were ten times more likely to suffer urinary tract infections than circumcised boys.

16. Over the next few years’ nine different studies found circumcision to protect against urinary tract infections.

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18. 1989 “Newborn circumcision has potential medical benefits and advantages.”

19. Consider • It is estimated that in the U.S. circumcisions currently prevent more than ten thousand UTI’s per year. If these boys were not circumcised these infections would kill up to two hundred boys.

20. In Abraham’s time before there were antibiotics these infections would have been much more serious. UTI Infections could have resulted in thousands of boys dying.

21. COINCIDENCE? Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

22. Men, no need to run out and get circumcised!!!!

23. Why on the eighth day? “For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised.” (Genesis 17: 12)

24. The Chemistry of Blood Clotting

25. Here is How it Works • Blood Clotting Proteins (Prothrombin) are continually produced in the liver. • The Liver needs Vitamin K to make clotting proteins. • Vitamin K is produced in our intestinal tract. • When a baby is born the Vitamin K levels are similar to that of the mother.

26. Infants are born without the required bacteria in their intestines to produce Vitamin K It takes about five days for the bacteria to build up in order for the baby to start producing its own Vitamin K As a result Prothrombin drops to 30 percent of normal

27. Clotting Protein Peaks on Day Eight Available Prothrombin

28. The greatest risk of bleeding occurs between the second and seventh day of life.

29. God told Abraham 4000 years ago that the time to circumcise was on the eighth day. It took medical science years to figure that out.

30. COINCIDENCE? Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

31. Flint Knife Joshua 5: 2 “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.”

32. Why Flint instead of Metal? • Making a Flint knife produced a clean bacteria free sharp edge. • Bacteria and germs would only be discovered thousands of years later, yet God instructed Joshua to use a surgical instrument which would be germ free! • We did not have to wait for Louis Pasteur’s Germ theory of disease to tell us that!

33. COINCIDENCE? Or is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?

34. Ritualistic Surgeons Even today, ritualistic surgeons are infecting babies with fatal cases of gangrene, tetanus, tuberculosis due to using dirty instruments.

35. INITIATED INTO DEATHInfected from botched circumcisions, beaten andexposed to bitter cold - it’snot surprising five boys died. “Some of them lay shivering with fever, apparently the upshot of septicaemia resulting from infected circumcision cuts.”The Star, Wednesday, June 26 2002

36. The Promise of a healthy disease free life Egypt 3500 years ago

37. Papyrus Ebers

38. Ebers Papyrus • Written in Egypt in 1552 B.C. • Contains 877 recipes concerning a great variety of diseases and symptoms

39. Days of the Papyrus ebers (Egyptians)

40. Prescriptions • “To cure pinkeye apply the urine of a faithful wife.” • To Embedded splinters they applied worms’ blood and asses dung. • To prevent hair from turning gray, anoint it with the blood of a black calf which has been boiled in oil, or with the fat of a rattlesnake.”

41. The Bible Says Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life. (Proverbs 16:31)

42. Baldness

43. Rx for Hair loss • “When it falls out, one remedy is to apply a mixture of six fats,namely those of the horse, hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat, the snake, and the ibex. To strengthen it, anoint it with the tooth of a donkey crushed in honey.”

44. Leviticus 13:40-41 “When a man has lost his hair and is bald, he is clean. If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.”

45. Drugs of Choice included: • Lizards blood • Swine’s teeth • Putrid meat • Moisture from Pigs’ears • Excreta from animals including human beings, donkeys, antelope, dogs, cats and flies

46. Exodus 15: 26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.” Moses

47. Moses' Test Acts 7:22 tells us that Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians

48. The Difference • Instructions in the Bible were altogether different form the Papyrus Ebers. The Bible definitely was not copying the medical authorities of the day…Far from it! • We do not find a single harmful or useless remedy from the Egyptians in the Bible • God’s divine instructions were not only devoid of harmful practices, but had many detailed positive remedies.

49. We find remedies such as: “The sting of the hornet is healed by the housefly, crushed and applied to the wound” in a Jewish book of medical knowledge from the time of the New Testament writings. WE NEVER FIND SUCH A PRESCRIPTION IN THE BIBLE!!!

50. THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE BIBLE FOR THE PREVENTION AND IRRADICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES