QUESTION
I need 3 true Christian short medical facts if possible related to the Christian aspect. Thanks.
ANSWER
Thanks for your question.
Let me begin by saying that the Bible is filled with “medical facts”. In fact, many of the medical instructions given in the Bible was thousands of years before man “discovered” it. So with that being said let’s consider just a few out of many examples of medical science found in scripture.
| Blood |
| The Bible declared "For the life of the flesh is in the blood…..". (Lev. 17:11) |
| Now, I don’t need to tell you how important blood is for the body.. If you take all the blood out of our body then we no longer live.. This is common knowledge. However, this concept wasn’t understood until William Harvey discovered the circulatory system in 1616 (and still was not common knowledge/accepted until about 120 years ago). Prior to this, the medical field used to practice blood-letting (draining blood) out of people who were sick, thinking this would cure the people. Needless to say many died as a result. Yet, the bible declared 3,000 years ago that blood was the life of a body. |
| Circumcision |
| According to the bible, God commanded that circumcision was not to be performed on a newborn male until he was 8 days old. (Ref. Genesis 17:12) |
| It wasn’t until the 1920’s when Professor H. Dam discovered the existence and relevance of Vitamin K. He discovered that Vitamin K is necessary to stop hemorrhaging and blood clotting. To everyone’s surprise, medical research has shown that a newborn does not begin to produce vitamin K until the 5th-7th day after it’s born. It is not until the 8th day that the level climbs to 100% normal! Amazingly, this is the only day in a newborns life that it will be that high, thus it is the best day for a surgical procedure like circumcision to be accomplished. Again, Just as the bible declared nearly thousands of years ago. |
| Germs and Quarantine |
| Now, we all know that germs cause and spread disease. However, it wasn’t until the 1800’s that medical science had proven/discovered this fact. Having realized how disease spreads they took on the method of quarantining people to stop the spread of disease. |
| However, over 3,000 years before man’s science of bacteriology was invented, God instructed the Hebrews to use the method of quarantine to stop the spread of disease! (Reference Lev. 13:4 –5; 30-34 / Lev. 14: 33-48 / Num 5:2-3 / Deut 23:10-11) |
| Trichinosis (trichinellosis) |
| This is a disease most commonly obtained through eating pork. |
| “Symptoms can be divided into two types: symptoms caused by worms in the intestine, and symptoms caused by worms elsewhere. In the intestine, infection can cause: Nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, and abdominal discomfort Later, as the worms encyst in different parts of the body, other symptoms occur such as: Headaches, fevers, chills, cough, eye swelling, aching joints and muscle pains, pinpoint hemorrhages, itchy skin, and heightened numbers of white blood cells.” (Source Wikipedia) |
| Many people have suffered over the years from this until it was understood how to properly raise and cook pigs. Even today it’s still not uncommon for people to improperly handle pork and get trichinosis.. |
| Once again the Bible proves to be well ahead of man’s medical science. God had forbidden the people to eat pork thousands of years ago. |
| Lev. 11:7, 8 “ . . and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 8Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.” (Also reference Deut. 14:8) |
| Fat |
| Recent discoveries have shown us that eating animal fat is bad for health. It causes our arteries to plug up and thus can cause heart attacks and a host of other physical medical problems. Yet, long before our medical science declared this, the Bible stated that the people were instructed by God not to eat animal fat. |
| Lev. 3:17 “This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.” |
| Lev. 7:23,24 “And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. 24And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it.” |
Last but not least—
| Depression and Happiness |
| Within the past 30-50 years, scientific studies have proven that depression and stress can lead to unhealthy physical symptoms. On the flip side they have also shown that happiness and laughter can help the body on a healthy physical level. |
| The bible declared this fact thousands of years ago. Prov. 17:22 “A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones” |
In Closing,
As I said in the beginning, these are just a few examples of medical science found in scripture. There are many more but it would take a lot more time to go through them all. I do hope this helps answer your question and gives you the information you were seeking.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to write us back anytime. May God guide you and give you wisdom as you seek to learn His Word.
In CHRIST, TRM
**All scripture passages are
taken from the NKJV unless
otherwise stated
