Why doesn't the bible contain germ theory of disease?

Question

Because it's a "THEORY" and those are suspect?

Seriously, do you know the human suffering that could have been avoided if that tiny detail had been added in the perfect book somewhere?

I like this line of questioning Squirrel!

Answer 1

I thought i told you, Theorys (misspelled on purpose) are Satan's cooking utensils.

And squirrels are Satan's chefs!!

Germs are NOT real. When someone gets sick, its because demons possess people to make them suffer.

Answer 2

It does contain the information for men to become the best they can be so that they can address medical issues better.

For example: In history, hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital)

Also, it does talk about physical healing for those that are sick. (James chapter 5)

Taking away suffering is not a high calling. The object was and is that men would have to choose between honoring and serving themselves or honoring and serving God.

If there were proof positive facts so that men did not have to decide to believe but were forced by the facts to follow God, then what kind of choice would that be except in the head. He doesn’t want that. He wants followers that come to him from a standpoint of _freedom_ and the ID not just the brain.

Funny though, that Biblical scientific statements are ignored today like they were in times past. The earth was thought to be flat only by those who disbelieved, ignored or were the unaware of the statements in the Book of Job of the earth being round.

There are great intellects that have looked at the evidence and concluded that following God was a good idea. And, there are great intellects that have looked at the evidence and concluded that following God was a bad idea. Again, it is a heart issue.

Answer 3

It DOES deal with germs and disease. Get your microscope out and go through the book of Leviticus, chapters 12 (post-partum haemorrhaging), 15:1-18 (male bodily discharges), 15:19-33 (female menstruation), contagious skin diseases, mildew.... it's all there. And not in gobbledegook either, but plain, simple language that even the uneducated can understand. And what about the biblical theory of sin and death? Now whose turn is it to cry "Suspect!" How many people avoid that "tiny detail" in the perfect book, just because they don't like it?

Answer 4

Do not live in a house or eat food from any open container with green mold growing on its walls which was established before they lived in houses. If the removed mold keeps returning the whole house should be destroyed. Determining if a person had a contagious skin disease by the color of the hair follicle in the pustule. The knowledge of the unclean classifications of living creatures causing unnecessary diseases and ailments to inflict the human body if eaten. Knowing that circumcising the male penis is the best way to naturally prevent the spread of STD's. Do not eat from any clay pot that a dead mouse or rat was found in and should be destroyed. Do not sit where or touch any surface that a menstruating woman came into contact with. Telling soldiers that after battles that they should stick their swords into the fire to purify them of the blood that was on them and to wash their clothes. The knowledge of the woman's uterus continuing to expel blood and other secretions while it returns to normal after childbirth and not to mistake it as her menstrual cycle but will still contaminate surfaces that others will come into contact with. The knowledge that baking or boiling Manna would preserve it for two days instead of it spoiling in one day in its raw state to pull that miracle off in the book of Exodus.I have more examples than that if you still need more proof that it wasn't humans that knew this stuff for it to have originated from.

Answer 5

The bible tells us disease is caused by evil demons. Germs are simply evolutionist lies. If Germ theory is true then why is it still a theory and not a fact.

When people practiced biblical medicine ( animal sacrifice and prayer ) people lived to be 900 years old. Now people die in their 90s.

The fact is medical doctors have never been able to cure disease. While prayer and animal sacrifice cure people all the time.

Answer 6

Your quest for knowledge is admirable--In your search it might help if you categorize your search. Science answers are found in Science books. If you are seeking a personal walk with a supreme being search the Bible. At the time of the Bible science had not found these things. God then gave Science the ability to develop their theories,to help humanity.

Answer 7

What difference would it really have made? People know about STD's and yet they continue to go against the Bible regarding having sex outside of marriage. Also, suffering is a result of our sins, whether it be by germs or other means.

Answer 8

On the one hand, the Bible was given to us to deal with man0s basic spiritual problem. To reveal to us what we wouldn't be able to know otherwise.
On the other hand, God's law to the Israelites teaches them to bury their leavings "outside the camp". I am told that during a serious plague in France, when it was custom to do one's "business" just anywhere, and bury it, somebody suggested following the levitical practise on that, and the epidemic was stopped. Is this legend? I honestly don't know, but the story does point out that the Bible does give some indications at least of the importance of cleanliness, which were totally ignored by "Christian" Europe during the dark and middle ages, unfortunately.

Answer 9

What makes you assume that God wanted us to avoid all suffering? Wouldn't it have been easier for he to avoid creating bacteria and viruses in the first place if that is what he wanted?

And why stop with just germs? Why not eliminate cancer, and get rid of genetic diseases too?

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Obviously God deliberately gave us challenges and then left us to solve some of our own problems for ourselves. He obviously decided not to make it too easy for us.

This is so simply that a child could get it. Why can't atheists think?

Answer 10

It was, of course, unknown at the time. Also, just because something is called a "theory" does not imply that it is questionable; the Special Theory of Relativity is beyond reasonable question (as the residents of Hiroshima are all too well aware), and the Theory of Evolution is a proven fact. (Proof details available on request.)

Answer 11

The Bible reveals the Lord God. The Word was with God from the beginning, and the Word was God.

The pupose of the Bible is to give spiritual life by revealing the Lord.