I believe the mortality rate before germs were discovered kept the human population below a billion for untold thousands of years. In the last 300 years we've skyrocketed pass 6 billion because of medicine and hygiene.
2007-11-29 17:56:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How is that relevant to Jesus... at all?
2007-11-29 17:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God gave specific instructions to people regarding hygeine and "germs" Principles and equipment spoken of in the Bible are still used today by doctors and scientists to keep a handle on germs- you should read it sometime.
The problems came when people stopped taking God's laws seriously and stopped following them.
Jesus obeyed the laws perfectly. The laws were set in place for our good, for health, protection and prosperity. Those that chose to disobey the laws chose to step outside of God's umbrella of protection- therefore germs, disease and death!
Jesus was concerned with souls- once the spirit was right with the Lord, obedience was not an issue.
It's pretty silly to say that they didn't know about these things then when they had sense enough to quarantine those afflicted with leporasy and they went through a rigid examination in order to be deemed cleansed from it.
Read the Bible people before making uneducated assumptions about it.
2007-11-29 18:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
He had much more important things to teach about. Besides that, the Jews were always very much aware of cleanliness, because of the commandments that God had given them. For example, they were the ones least affected by the Black Death in the middle ages because they practiced basic hygiene.
2007-11-29 18:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by ocean_girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus could care less. You have the common misunderstanding as do many non-Christians that Jesus=a long life on Earth. Jesus was here to teach us of salvation, not how to live as long as possible on this planet. In fact, if I were to die today, I would go to heaven to meet my maker. However, I know that God has placed me in my particular situation to help non-believers, believe. God Bless and good luck!
2007-11-29 18:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't any evidence to support that he didn't. All we have are very carefully edited accounts of what these men wrote down, not of all he told them. But at one point in Matthew, he said 'I have many things to tell you, but you could not bear them now.' (He was making reference to the End Times.)
2007-11-29 18:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
6 Billion people in the world getting in my way, and you can't figure it out?
2007-11-29 18:13:22 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pretty difficult for a fictional character to teach about something the writers didn't know about at the time
2007-11-29 17:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Biblical people would have thought that he was nuts. "Yea, sure little things living on my hands, I can't see them". "Next you're going to tell me that the Earth is round".
2007-11-29 18:04:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Since he could heal anyone of anything, even bringing people back from death, he wasn't too worried about germs!
2007-11-29 18:03:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
he didn't tell anyone about them because he didn't know! I'm sure he was a very good man, but he was just a man
2007-11-29 17:59:12 · answer #10 · answered by Diane 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋