Dont lay plague and pestilence on me, Microbial life was here over a billion years before church building.
2007-07-05 10:45:59 · 11 answers · asked by wakemovement 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course not... all that stuff: plague, disease, death, eclipses, floods, lightening etc., .. had causes that we only now understand... Since the bible is the history, and folk lore of a group of stone age people starving in the Middle East, they knew nothing of modern science...... they thought the earth was the center of everything, and god smiled down on them and banished their enemies. We know differently, thru science and modern medicines.
2007-07-05 10:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by April 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The people who wrote the scriptures were not aware of germs or microbial life.
Science can now explain how Plagues were caused by a germ or virus, but in ancient times those things were blamed on the Wrath of God (or The Gods).
In ancient times, Weather was a mystery, and attributed to the Gods.
Sacrifices were made to The Gods to help assure a good crop, or to assist with fertility, or to stop a volcano's eruption.
2007-07-05 17:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by RHCCBonnie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course in some of the more current religious writings. If you are talking about in Biblical days how could anyone write about something no one could have known about. You don't know that Microbial life was here over a billion years. There is no proof of that. You are just assuming.
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2007-07-05 17:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are not part of creation.
God created the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom. Not only viruses but eubacteria, archaebacteria, protista, and fungi are never mentioned.
These join the list of things that an omniscient god would have known about and could have told the biblical writers to include in Genesis but didn't. The list includes planets, the Americas and Australia, the spherical Earth, the Earth's orbit around the sun, the Earth's rotation, et cetera.
2007-07-05 17:49:16 · answer #4 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They had no such concept of such things. Any ilness was typically related to something evil or a punishment from God(s).
2007-07-05 17:55:43 · answer #5 · answered by Rance D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Viruses arent even living organisms science boy! haha.
Another stupid question from the lost souls who are left clueless and puzzled.
2007-07-05 17:53:37 · answer #6 · answered by Blimey! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think our planet is that old... Mars came and went. How much longer will our planet be here?
2007-07-05 17:49:35 · answer #7 · answered by Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am sure someone will figure out a way to make a really vague verse in their book make it appear that way....in 10,9,8,7,6......
2007-07-05 17:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus cured people of fevers, if i remember correctly
2007-07-05 17:49:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
leprosy was mentioned
2007-07-05 17:52:27 · answer #10 · answered by delana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋