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MEDICINE
At the beginning of the Bible are the Books of the Law that Moses wrote. He recorded all that God has told him. In the laws were many rules which the people of Israel were to follow if they were to stay healthy. Here are some examples.The laws given by God to Moses spoke of separating sick people from others, in case the disease spread (Numbers 5:4)
In Numbers chapter 19 there is a list of occasions when people must wash themselves and clothes. This is usually when they had touched dead animals or people.
Today, doctors know how important it is to wash their hands and wear clean gowns when they operate on people.
We take that for granted, because we understand that washing will remove harmful germs. But, whenMoses wrote these rules, it was not understood by the people. They just obeyed it! And stayed healthy.
But for thousands of years after Moses wrote this, in other nations and even in Europe and Britain, Doctors didn't bother to wash or change their clothes.
They would touch the body of someone who was suffering from, or had even died from a disease and them go to treat another person. This way thousand of people died from infections and diseases.
How did Moses know what scientists and Doctors in our country didn't discover for thousands of years afterwards?
It was because God had revealed it to him!
Today we understand how diseases like cholera and typhoid can spread if there is bad sanitation. After floods, this is a big danger, because the sewage system is flooded and disease gets into the water.
In Europe, even up until the 1700's, there was no organized sewerage system. Plagues of terrible diseases killed tens of thousands.God had told Moses to include the laws what we read in Deuteronomy 23:12. The people at that time were travelling. They did not live in houses, but in tents. Flush toilets, of course, had not been invented.
God's law said that when people needed to use the toilet, they were to go outside the camp and dig a hole to bury the waste matter. This would keep the living areas free from disease. God's instructions were 3,500 years ahead of man's scientific understanding.
It would have been easy for God's people to have become ill from eating unhealthy food. They were travelling and living in hot countries. They had no fridges or deep freezers, there were no vets or animal medicines to keep the farm animals free from pests. Sometimes they had to eat what they could catch in the wild. Food could easily go off in the heat, or be infested with harmful parasites or disease.
God, though, knew which animals would be the healthiest to eat, the fish which would not pick up harmful bacteria from the water, and the animals which would not give meat infected with parasites.
He also knew the healthiest way to cook the food. So He gave Moses various food laws for the people (Leviticus 11).
Even today, some Jewish people stick to these rules.
Although Moses and the people had no medical knowledge to help them with their food hygiene, God told them things which we, today, understand to be very healthy.
JUST THINK!
How did Moses know what it took medical science thousands of years to discover?
It can only be because God told Moses. That is one reason why we can be sure that the Bible is God's thoughts and words.
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