Surely Noah did not go round up salmonella, HIV, trichomonaisis, avain influenza, polio, herpes zoster, and many many more virui and bacteria.
Also, surely he and/or his family was not infected with all these bacteria!
Surely to goodness the animals weren't infected. If they were, you can bet your cookies that the humans would catch it!
How did these bacteria and virui come to exist unless God did some more creating later on?
2007-01-11 08:14:57 · 8 answers · asked by ÜFÖ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to scholarly Christians, the "fall" of adam and eve brought the earth vulnerability to bacteria and viruses and other life forms that somehow God didn't have a micromanaging hand in creating......
It's a mystery whether they believe we created them ourselves, how we as mere mortals can create other life forms through "sin" is beyond, me, you have to ask the genius Christians.
this actually should point out to them the factuality of evolution, but they are too thick to comprehend the logic.
Hey Carol M: the year 850AD is calling, they want their opinions on invisible microbes/aka demon possession back.
2007-01-11 08:20:28 · answer #1 · answered by janesweetjane 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People have wondered why God created the low form of life known as bacteria. In this regard, it is interesting to note that in a recent book, “The Medusa and the Snail,” Lewis Thomas, M.D., points out that the role of bacteria is in recycling, not in disease. Even with such a serious disease as meningitis, Dr. Thomas believes the illness comes about “like an accident.” He writes: “It is still a mystery that meningitis develops in some patients, but it is unlikely that this represents a special predilection of the bacteria; it may be that the defense mechanisms of affected patients are flawed in some special way.”
Are germs to be viewed as man’s natural enemies? Dr. Thomas explains: “It is true, of course, that germs are all around us; they comprise a fair proportion of the sheer bulk of the soil, and they abound in the air. But it is certainly not true that they are our natural enemies. Indeed, it comes as a surprise to realize that such a tiny minority of the bacterial populations of the Earth has any interest at all in us. The commonest of encounters between bacteria and the higher forms of life take place after the death of the latter, in the course of recycling the elements of life. This is obviously the main business of the microbial world in general, and it has nothing to do with disease.”
Bacteria were not created to cause disease in humans. The more man learns about God’s creation, the more he realizes the great wisdom Jehovah has displayed even in the minutest forms of life.—Ps. 104:24.
2007-01-11 18:35:41 · answer #2 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well the best answer is that God didn't create _anything_ ... much less the flood, Noah or those virii. It's just a story to instruct people how to live morally and how to worship. A bad one, at that. ("Everybody follow the drunk onto the boat!" Please.)
*xors
2007-01-11 08:23:25 · answer #3 · answered by Curio 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, you can't believe the sinning Stephen Hawking was doing in college...
2007-01-11 08:26:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does Carol M have no disabled or diseased people in her church? Or does she think they're just not praying hard enough?
Won't it be ironic if something 'negative' ever happens to her...I wonder if she'll think her faith (or lack of) caused it?
2007-01-11 08:38:05 · answer #5 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow.
You actually got someone who responded that disease is due to "sin and satan". I thought people stopped believing that in the 1200's....
It's a strange world.
2007-01-11 08:25:31 · answer #6 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of what you mentioned are the product of sin and satan. It is through accepting Jesus as your personal Savior that you are healed from those ailements. Praise the Lord!!
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
We still have to pay in the flesh for our sins before we leave this earth too!
2007-01-11 08:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
mutations. they havent always existed. look at the flu virus, it is constantly mutating.
2007-01-11 08:21:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋